UK – CRG acquires Affinity Workforce

UK-based specialist healthcare recruitment agency CRG announced that it has acquired Affinity Workforce, a provider of education, health and social care staffing.

Affinity will complement the portfolio of businesses within the CRG group by incorporating CER, Monarch Education, Medicare First and Team24,...

UK – HMRC seeks personal details of public sector contractors operating outside IR35

HMRC is requesting the personal details of public sector contractors continuing to work outside of IR35 through their limited companies, according to a letter leaked to ContractorCalculator.

The letter, which is being circulated to public sector bodies, asks that the recipients provide the HMRC with names...

Czech Republic – More Czechs are unhappy with commute to work, Grafton finds

Nearly a third, or 30%, of Czechs are unhappy with commuting to work, this is a 7% increase compared to the previous year, according to a survey from Grafton Recruitment.

According to the survey, with the increasing number of job offers, the willingness of Czechs to move to work is also falling. Two thirds...

World – The Adecco Group ranks among the top five world’s best workplaces

The Adecco Group, the world’s largest staffing firm, announced that it has made the top five of the world’s best workplaces, for the second consecutive year, according to the 2018 Great Place to Work survey.

This year’s survey polled approximately 12 million employees from more than 7,000 companies...

South Africa – Restructuring strategy lifts revenue for Adcorp as it returns to profit

South Africa-based workforce management solutions group Adcorp Holdings Ltd. (ADR: JSE) reported revenue increased by 2.8% to ZAR 7.9 billion (USD 551.3 million) for the six months ended 31 August 2018.

During the full year ended 28 February 2018 the group discontinued operations in the Rest of Africa....

UK – NES Global Talent acquires Bedrock Petroleum Consultants

UK-headquartered staffing firm NES Global Talent announced that it has acquired US-based Bedrock Petroleum Consultants.

Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, US, Bedrock is a specialist provider of outsourced supervisory and operational personnel to the US onshore oil and gas market.

No details of the transaction...

Spain – Number of temporary workers in public sector reaches highest level since 2009

Nearly a quarter, or 24.9%, of public workers in Spain are temporary workers, the highest rate since 2009 according to a study from Randstad Spain.

There are currently 3.11 million workers who work in the public sector, and 777,100 of them do so through a temporary contract.

Among the 13.13 million employees...

UK – Recruitment sales manager could receive £1 million after boss’s punch left him brain damaged (BBC)

A sales manager who suffered catastrophic brain damage from a punch by his boss will receive damages in an appeal court ruling, reports BBC News. The sales manager, 62-year-old Clive Bellman was hit by his boss, John Major, managing director of Northampton Recruitment Ltd at the time, during a "heated...

UK – Recruitment firms receive nearly half of £1.8 million NHS campaign budget for hiring overseas nurses (Irish News)

Private recruitment firms have received a 40% share of a £1.8 million NHS campaign budget to attract overseas nurses to Northern Ireland to plug the sector’s worst ever staffing shortage, reports Irish News.  Specialist healthcare recruiter TTM Healthcare and HCL Workforce Solutions, a provider...

UK – Treasury finalising plans to extend Off-Payroll rules to private sector

Her Majesty’s Treasury is finalising plans to extend ‘Off-Payroll’ rules to the private sector as part of a crackdown on tax avoidance from private companies claiming self-employed status.

The BBC reports that the Treasury’s plans could be announced as early as this month’s budget.

The Treasury...