UK – Parity Group awarded recruitment contract by Primark

Specialist technology staffing company Parity Group announced that it has won a managed service contract from clothing retail business Primark. 

Under the contract, Parity Professionals will provide all of Primark’s contract and interim IT staff.

Parity stated that Primark, which operates over 320...

France – Thousands of public sector workers go on strike to protest labour reforms (The Guardian)

Thousands of public sector staff have gone on strike over President Emmanuel Macron’s latest reform drive, reports The Guardian. The strikes have caused railway and airport disruption with many of their services cancelled across France. Today’s strikes also mark the first protest against Macron that...

World – Hudson Global approves sale of European and Asia-Pacific staffing units, deals to close this month

Hudson Global Inc.’s (NASD: HSON) stockholders yesterday approved the proposed sales of the company’s recruitment and talent management businesses in Europe and Asia Pacific. Hudson announced in December that it entered into agreements to sell the operations to strategic buyers in three transactions....

UK – Number of temp employees down 3.1%, unemployment rate falls

The number of temporary employees in the UK fell by 3.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis to a total of 1.55 million in the three-month period from November through to January 2018 when compared to the same period a year ago, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Temporary workers are self-identified...

UK – BBC Presenter says she tried to kill herself due to BBC’s employment contracts

A BBC presenter has revealed to MPs that she tried to kill herself due to the stress she faced over her employment arrangement.

The anonymous presenter, along with a number of other television and radio personalities, gave evidence during a parliamentary inquiry into personal service companies. They said...

Europe – Council strikes deal with European Parliament over the posting of workers

Under a provisional deal between Members of the European Parliament and EU Ministers, posted workers are to receive equal pay for equal work.

A posted worker is an employee who is sent by their employer to carry out a service in another EU member state on a temporary basis. 

The deal aims to ensure...

Europe – Job vacancy rate rises in euro area and EU28 during fourth quarter

The job vacancy rate in the euro area stood at 2.0% in the fourth quarter of 2017, up from 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the EU28, the job vacancy rate was 2.0% in the fourth quarter of 2017, up from 1.8%...

South Africa – AdvTech full year revenue up 22% boosted by tertiary and resourcing divisions

South African recruitment firm AdvTech (ADH: SJ) reported revenue for the year ended 31 December 2017 of ZAR 4.08 billion (USD 340.7 million), an increase of 22% compared to last year.

Netherlands – ABU reports staffing growth

The total amount of hours worked by temporary workers in the Netherlands grew by 5% in the second period of 2018 when compared to the same period in 2017, according to annual figures from the Dutch Federation of Private Employment Agencies (ABU).

ABU divides the year into four-week periods, with the second...

France – Temporary employment shows growth in January

Temporary employment in France grew by 8.4% in January when compared to last year, according to data from Prism’Emploi, the French association of employment agencies.

The growth in temporary employment was led by the transport and logistics sector which recorded an increase of 23.4%.

According to Prism’Emploi,...