UK – NHS agency staffing ban put on hold

NHS Improvement has announced it is pausing its plans to ban trusts from using agency staff who also hold substantive roles in the NHS, until further notice.

The ban on agency staff was designed to encourage nurses and doctors to seek overtime shifts via internal NHS banks, rather than agencies. The new...

Germany – Employment law comes into force

Germany’s reformed Labour Leasing Act (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz AÜG) came into effect on Saturday, 1 April 2017.

The reformed law imposes restrictions to assignment lengths, works contracts and managed service provision arrangements. The new regulations include an equal pay claim (temps will...

UK – GMB Union launches legal case against Amazon supplier over worker classification

The GMB trade union in the UK has filed a legal claim against Birmingham-based logistics firm UK Express, on behalf of workers at Amazon.

The union is addressing issues of worker classification and says that the drivers should be classed as workers, rather than as self-employed, and argues that their...

UK – Financial investors and healthcare groups eyeing NHS Professionals takeover (Sky News)

A group of financial investors and healthcare groups are tabling offers to acquire control of NHS Professionals, a specialist organisation within the NHS recruiting and supplying temporary doctors, nurses, and corporate staff, reports Sky News. Bids are expected to value NHS Professionals at approximately...

Scotland – Head Resourcing launches new executive search division

Private Scotland-based recruitment firm Head Resourcing has created Atkinson Macleod Executive Search which will focus on board and senior executive level searches for the private and public sectors.

The new executive search firm will be run by search industry veterans Paul Atkinson and Ian Macleod. Atkinson...

Netherlands – Number of online job vacancies in HR and recruitment up 24%

In the Netherlands, there were 24.2% more jobs in HR and recruitment for 2016 than the previous year, according to data from Jobfeed, a Big Data tool for vacancies for recruitment technology firm Textkernel.

The data showed that almost half of the total number of unique online job vacancies were for recruitment...

People – Korn Ferry, Hay, Romanian group, Heidrick, Kennedy

Korn Ferry reported that Mark Arian will join the company as CEO of its Hay Group advisory business. Arian was recently partner at Ernst & Young and has held leadership positions at Hewitt Associates, Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson) and AON. Former CEO of the Hay Group, Steve Kaye, will...

Germany – Unemployment rate falls to record low rate

Germany’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate fell to 5.8% in March, 0.1% lower than the previous month, and reaching the lowest level since the country’s reunification according to data from the Federal Labour Office.

The number of people who were unemployed in March fell by a seasonally adjusted 30,000...

UK – Tech industry named least sexist in UK job market

The UK technology industry was found to be the least biased of all UK sectors when it came to using gender-based language, according to data from job search site Adzuna.

The research was conducted in March 2017, and analysed a selection of traditionally masculine and feminine words across more than one...

UK – Recruitment industry reacts to Article 50 being triggered

UK Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 yesterday, officially kick starting the process of leaving the EU. The procedure prompted the recruitment industry to respond.

Kevin Green, chief executive at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, commented,

“Our members want the status of...