Europe – SIA announces Executive Forum Europe 2017

Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA), the global advisor on staffing and workforce solutions, has confirmed the list of speakers and the full agenda for the 4th Annual Executive Forum Europe, taking place in London this October. 

Executive Forum Europe is the premier staffing event for European business...

UK – Staffing 360 solutions acquires two firms, expects to add $85 million to top line

Staffing 360 Solutions Inc. (NASD: STAF), a staffing provider operating in the US and UK, announced two acquisitions as well as the refinancing of Staffing 360’s balance sheet with current lenders.

The company acquired US-based firstPRO Georgia, which targets IT as well as accounting and finance staffing;...

UK – Number of workers whose main job is based on a zero-hours contract falls

The number of people in the UK on zero-hours contracts in their main job during the period from April to June has fallen slightly compared to last year, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics.

Estimates from ONS’s Labour Force Survey show that the number of people employed...

UK – Employer confidence in economy falls, but hiring confidence remains positive

Employer confidence in the UK economy has dropped to the lowest level since the EU referendum, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).

The survey of 600 employers also showed that 33% of employers believe that economic conditions are getting...

Germany – Majority of temporary agency workers are satisfied with their employment

Most, or 95%, of temporary workers in Germany working for personnel services firm DEKRA Arbeit Group are satisfied with their current form of employment and view it positively.

The findings, which polled more than 1,000 of DEKRA’s temporary workers, also showed that 36% of them were very satisfied.

Furthermore,...

UK – Robots could take four million jobs in the next decade (The Guardian)

Four million jobs in the UK’s private sector could be replaced by robots over the next decade, reports The Guardian, with survey data from YouGov for the Royal Society of Arts. The poll predicts a loss of 15% of jobs by 2027. Jobs in finance and accounting, transport and distribution and in media,...

Italy – Temp agency worker numbers up strongly in July

The number of temporary agency workers in Italy for the month of July was up by 20.9% on an annual basis, according to figures from Ebitemp, the bilateral organisation for temporary employment representing employers’ associations and unions.

Ebitemp figures also showed that the number of temp workers...

UK – Nearly 10,000 finance jobs could be gone after Brexit takes effect in 2019

Approximately 10,000 finance jobs will be shifted out of the UK or created overseas in the next few years if the UK is denied access to Europe’s single market, according to survey data from Reuters.

The survey polled 123 banks, asset managers, private equity firms, insurers and exchanges with UK operations...

Europe – Job vacancy rate rises in Euro area for second quarter

The job vacancy rate in the euro area (EA19) was 1.9% in the second quarter of 2017 up from 1.7% in the second 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 second quarter of 2017, up from 1.8%...

Netherlands – Deliveroo in talks with trade unions over employee rights (DutchNews.nl)

Food courier Deliveroo is in discussions with Dutch trade unions CNV and the Riders Union over whether its riders should be considered self-employed, reports DutchNews.nl. The talks reportedly began after weeks of objections from delivery cyclists after the firm announced they must all be ‘ZZP-ers’...