World – Resources Connection revenue up 6.2%, European business drives growth

US-based professional staffing provider Resources Connection Inc. (NASD: RECN) reported revenue rose 6.2% in its fiscal second quarter ended 25 November with a lion’s share of the growth coming from Europe.

UK – More than half of firms looking to grow their workforce over the next year

More than half of businesses in the UK (51%) are looking to grow their workforces over the next 12 months, according to a survey from the Confederation of British Industry and Pertemps Network Group.

The survey, which polled approximately 300 businesses in the UK and was carried out between August to...

Iceland – Government makes it illegal to pay women less than men

Iceland has become the first country in the world to make it illegal to pay women less than men.

A bill of law (amendments to the Gender Equality Act 10/2008 ) that was submitted by the Minister of Social Affairs and Equality and passed by the Parliament with vast majority on 1 June 2017...

UK – Transline pursued by administrators for £1.3 million in debts (The Times)

The administrators of UK employment agency Transline are pursuing debts owed by its directors, reports The Times.  Qualitycourse, trading as Transline, filed for insolvency in 2017 and was then acquired by the Russell Taylor Group with Clare Boardman and Daniel Butters, of Deloitte, being appointed...

UK – Middleton Enterprises invests in hospitality temp agency Rota (Insider Media)

UK-based investment company Middleton Enterprises has completed a £100,000 investment in Rota, a temporary hospitality staff specialist, reports Insider Media. Rota operates across five cities in the UK with plans to expand into further cities in the next two years. The company has raised £1.8 million...

UK – Staffline to miss 2017 revenue target

Staffline (STAF:LSE), the staffing and employability organisation, Wednesday issued a trading update for its financial year ended 31 December 2017. The company expects to deliver full-year results in line with market expectations, however revenues are forecast to be slightly below their £1 billion target,...

UK – McDonald’s to award its workers biggest pay rise in ten years following 2017 strikes

McDonald’s workers in the UK have won a pay rise following last year’s strikes, the first UK strikes in the company’s history.

Last September, the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) launched its ‘McStrike’ campaign at two restaurants in Cambridge and Croydon due to a dispute over...

UK – Companies paying more for temporary workers, finds Tiger Recruitment

Companies in the UK are now paying more for temps, with the average hourly rate increasing by 13% from 2016 to 2017, rising to £12.50, according to an annual review of salary and benefits by London-based support recruitment agency, Tiger Recruitment.

Tiger’s Salary Review 2018 stated that the high...

Germany – Jobless rate for December down to historic low

The unemployment rate for 2017 stood at 5.7% for the year 2017, down 0.4% from last year and the lowest rate since German reunification in 1990, according to figures from the Federal Employment Agency.

Meanwhile, seasonally adjusted figures for December recorded a 5.5% unemployment rate, steady from November...

Saudi Arabia – Recruitment agencies charging double the advertised price (Arabian Business)

Recruitment firms in Saudi Arabia are charging their clients twice the advertised rate, reports Arabian Business with data from Al-Watan News. The fees are a breach of the Ministry of Labour and Social Development’s pricing regulations, which were enacted to prevent exploitation of migrant workers....