UK – Courts service spending on agency staff sees tenfold increase since 2010 (The Guardian)

The UK courts service spent £50.6 million last year on temporary agency and contract staff, more than ten times as much since 2010 when it spent less than £4 million, according to figures obtained by Richard Burgon, the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor, and published...

Spain – Nearly half of permanent contracts were converted from temporary contracts in 2017

In 2017, 40% of permanent contracts in Spain began as a temporary contract, according to data from Randstad Spain.

The data showed in 2017 there were 686,445 conversions of temporary contracts into permanent contracts, representing an increase of 17.9% from last year. This is the highest figure in the...

Europe – Deliveroo riders go on strike in Belgium and Netherlands over self-employment status (The Telegraph)

Deliveroo riders across Belgium and the Netherlands went on strike over the weekend after Deliveroo refused to delay its decision to treat all workers as self-employed from 1 February, reports The Telegraph. Riders for the food courier firm refused delivery requests and asked restaurants to disconnect...

UK – RTC Group announced trading in line with expectations despite collapse of Carillion

RTC Group Plc (AIM: RTC.L), the engineering and technical recruitment company, provided a trading update yesterday announcing that the results for the year ended 31 December 2017 will be in line with market expectations.

In its update, the group addressed its role within the collapse of Carillion, which...

UK – Recruitment difficulties worsen for Scottish organisations

Recruitment difficulties persist at record highs for a number of sectors in Scotland according to quarterly economic data from Scottish Chambers of Commerce.

The quarterly survey, produced in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute, found growing optimism within...

UK – Robots to put half of Northern Ireland jobs at risk (BBC News)

More than 400,000 jobs in Northern Ireland are at risk because of an increase in automation over the next ten years, reports BBC News with data from the Ulster University's Economic Policy Centre and Catalyst Inc. The figure accounts for 50% of the total number of jobs in Northern Ireland. Of the sectors...

People – ManpowerGroup Italia, ZRG Partners, Heidrick & Struggles, CNA International

ManpowerGroup Italia has appointed Riccardo Barberis as its new Managing Director. Barberis succeeds Stefano Scabbio in the role. Barberis has held several positions within Manpower Group including CEO in ManpowerGroup Brasil. In the last two years, Barberis has been responsible for the development of...

Netherlands – YoungCapital turnover up 60% in 2017

Dutch recruitment firm YoungCapital, which specialises in the recruitment of young talent, reported a record turnover of €325 million for the full year 2017, an increase of 60.1% compared to €203 million the previous year.

According to Staffing Industry Analysts, YoungCapital ranked number one the...

UK – Most recruitment professionals predict increase in company revenue in 2018

The majority of UK recruitment professionals anticipate an increase in company revenue next year, according to a new report from Bullhorn.

The report suggests a largely positive financial outlook for the industry in 2018. However, while 77% of recruitment professionals anticipate an increase in company...

Switzerland – Job offers on the rise, computer science professionals see biggest increase in demand

Swiss companies posted 6% more job vacancies in the fourth quarter of 2017 than in the same period last year, according to The Adecco Group’s Swiss Job Market Index.

The index, published with the University of Zurich, showed that an increase in job vacancies could be observed in most regions of Switzerland....