UK – Uber’s London licence set to rise from £3,000 to £3 million during next five years (Evening Standard)

Ride-sharing firm Uber will see its licensing costs in London rise from £3,000 to £3 million during the next five years, reports the Evening Standard. Transport for London announced yesterday that it is changing fees for operating licences based on the size of a company’s operations in order to meet...

Poland – Work Service H1 revenue up 11%, but net profit hit by sale of Proservice Group

Work Service (WSE:WSE) the Polish staffing, RPO, and outsourcing company reported revenue of PLN 1.34 million  (€313.1 million) for the first half of 2017, an increase of 11.4% compared with the same period last year.

Figures from H1 2017 were as follows and represents continued and discontinued...

World – Recruitment professionals support launch of Foundation to tackle youth unemployment

The OPERA Global Youth Foundation held their official launch on Friday in a call to action to the recruitment  industry to be part of the solution to youth unemployment.

Esther O’Callaghan, OBE and OPERA’s CEO, welcomed more than 80 recruitment and staffing industry leaders to the launch event...

UK – DHR International acquires fashion boutique executive search firm Cooper+Logan

UK-based international executive search firm DHR International announced that it acquired Cooper+Logan, a US-based fashion boutique executive search firm, according to Hunt Scanlon.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Cooper+Logan, founded in 2008 by managing partners Susan Cooper...

UK – GMB Union claims temporary workers’ costs are ‘spiraling out of control’

The annual costs for employing temporary workers across the public sector has increased by £2.5 billion over the past five years to reach £11 billion, according to data from the GMB Union.

The union adds that the increase is being driven by concerns over recruitment as well as a cap on public sector...

Greece – Unemployment falls to 21.1% in second quarter, number of temp workers up

The jobless rate in Greece fell to 21.1% in the second quarter of 2017, down from 23.1% during the same period last year, according to figures from the Hellenic Statistical Authority. The number of temporary workers also grew compared to last year.

According to the data, the number of employed persons...

UK – SThree provides Q3 trading update, gross profit growth in Continental Europe and US offset by decline in UK and Ireland

International recruitment firm, SThree (STHR: LSE) published a trading update for the third quarter ended 31 August 2017 with group gross profit up 5% year-on-year in constant currency.

SThree reported group gross profit was as follows:

Ireland – Professional vacancies down in August

The number of professional job vacancies in Ireland decreased by 3% in August compared to the same month a year ago, according to the latest Morgan McKinley Ireland Monthly Employment Monitor.

The monitor, published in Business World Ireland, tracks the number of new job vacancies and new candidates within...

France – Temp employment rises in second quarter

In the second quarter of 2017, temporary employment in France in Q2 2017 rose by 23,200 jobs (3.4%) after it decreased by 0.6% in Q1 2017. Over the year, it increased by 105,000 (17.4%), according to figures from INSEE (National Institute of Statistics for Economic Studies).

The data also showed...

UK – Hundreds join rally as part of campaign to connect millennials with jobs (Evening Standard)

More than 250 people are estimated to have turned up for a tech rally in London this week as part of a campaign to connect 2 million millennials with jobs via social media platform called Yourfeed, reports the Evening Standard. The platform was founded by Jack Parsons who started out as an 18-year-old...