UK – Dillistone update: GatedTalent platform to boost revenue growth

Dillistone Group (DSG: LSE), the UK-based supplier of recruitment software for the recruitment industry, announced a brief trading update today.

The company said it anticipates group revenue will grow more quickly due to a boost from its GatedTalent platform, a service for recruiters to engage with senior-level...

UK – Serocor Group acquires German-based Orson Consulting

The Serocor Group, a recruitment and human capital management solutions group announced that it has acquired Orson Consulting, a recruitment, HR, and technology consulting group based in Germany.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Serocor said the acquisition of Orson will further...

Netherlands – Temporary workers set to receive over €500,000 after winning underpayment lawsuit

FNV, the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation has won a lawsuit against temporary employment agencies Rikla and SprintWerkt as well as mattress company Recticel.

In the lawsuit, FNV successfully demonstrated that 12 temporary workers were underpaid for years due to sham contracting. The trade union calculated...

France – Temporary employment decreases in September, third quarter remains stagnant

The number of temporary workers in France decreased by 1.7% in September year-on-year, according to the Barometer report by Prism’Emploi, the French association of employment agencies.

Meanwhile, Prism’Emploi found that the third quarter of 2018 showed a stagnation (0%) in the growth of temporary...

Netherlands – Brunel Q3 revenue up, boosted by double-digit growth across all regions

Brunel (BRNL: NA), the Netherlands-based global energy staffing firm grew revenue by 18% on a like-for-like basis to €234.6 million in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the prior-year quarter.

The group reported EBIT growth of 72% to €12.0 million.

During the third quarter, Brunel said it completed...

World – Hudson Q3 revenue growth driven by APAC, but loss of large contract still hinders growth

Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider Hudson Global Inc. (NASD: HSON) reported third-quarter revenue rose 11.6%. The US-based firm reported the Asia Pacific region produced the strongest growth while the Americas and Europe continued to be affected by a large global contract...

UK – Parity Group issues profit warning due to contract delay

Parity (AIM:PTY), the London-based specialist technology staffing company, issued a profit warning for the full year ended 31 December 2018.

In its last update, for the six months ended 30 June 2018 the company reported revenue of £43.2 million, an increase of 0.7% compared with £42.9 million during...

Europe – A fifth of Europeans are unhappy with work-life balance, study finds

A fifth, or 20%, of Europeans are not satisfied with the balance between their work and personal life, according to a study from the European Commission.

The Eurobarometer study also found that 78% of Europeans say that they are very or fairly satisfied with their work-life balance, but 28% say they are...

UK – Temporary worker has contract terminated after breaking leg (The Guardian)

A temporary agency worker who worked with the Automobile Association (AA) via Guidant Global has had his contract terminated after he broke a leg while on his way to work, The Guardian reports.  Alex Wright, whose contract was ended with immediate effect less than a week after he found himself in...

Poland – Work Service completes sale of subsidiary Exact Systems

Polish contract, RPO, and outsourcing company Work Service announced that it has completed the sale of all shares in its subsidiary Exact Systems.

Exact Systems was sold to its founders and managers Paweł Gos and Lesław Walaszczyk. Both were previously minority shareholders of Exact Systems.

Earlier...