Germany – Government to ease access to labour market for refugees

Germany is set to remove some of the barriers that asylum seekers and refugees face when they want to access the country's labour market.

Under current regulation, asylum seekers and refugees awaiting a decision on their application for employment could only accept a job offer if the employment agency...

World – Hays Project Solutions appointed to G-Cloud framework

Hays Project Solutions has been appointed to the G-Cloud framework to supply cloud-based project solutions to public sector organisations.

Accreditation in the category of Specialist Cloud Services means Hays Project Solutions can provide all the professional services needed for public sector organisations...

Latvia – Refugees could be required to appear at employment agency once a month to receive benefits (Baltic Times)

Immigrants who have been granted asylum in Latvia might be obliged to appear at the State Employment Agency once a month to keep receiving benefits, reports the Baltic Times.

According to regulation, immigrants can receive subsistence benefits even if they have left and no longer reside in Latvia. Officials...

Italy – Openjobmetis reports small increase in half-year revenue

Italian recruitment firm, Openjobmetis SpA (OJM:MIL) reported revenue on Friday for the six months ending 30 June 2016 of €212.2 million, a 1.3% increase compared with €209.4 million last year.

UK – Average FTSE CEO salary rises to £5.5 million

An annual survey of FTSE100 CEO pay packages released today by the High Pay Centre reveals that CEO pay jumped to £5.48 million in 2015, from £4.96 million in 2014, an increase of 10%.

The report also showed that in 2015, the average pay ratio between FTSE 100 CEOs and the average wage of their employees...

Germany – Employees in West Germany earn more, work less hours than Eastern employees (personaldienstleister.de)

Employees in Western Germany still earn more and work less hours than employees in Eastern Germany, reports personaldienstleister.de with data from the German Federal Statistical Office.

The data shows that wages in Eastern Germany (excluding Berlin) averaged around €26,800 and in West Germany (without...

UK – ADVANCE appoints sole Managing Director

Chester-based workforce management company ADVANCE has appointed Shaun Critchley as its sole managing director.

Critchley previously served as joint managing director alongside Tim Hunt, who has left the business to pursue other opportunities.

A qualified employment law solicitor who has advised many...

UK – Permanent placements in dramatic freefall due to Brexit

According to the latest Markit/REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation) Report on Jobs, the number of people placed in permanent roles decreased for a second successive month in July with the rate of contraction accelerated to the sharpest rate since the recession in May 2009 due to Brexit uncertainty....

UK – Heidrick and Struggles acquires JCA Group

Executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles has announced that it has acquired JCA Group, a London-based executive search advisory firm.

JCA Group is led by founding partners Jan Hall and Emma Fallon, and it has 40 employees, including eight partners.

"This acquisition further accelerates the...

Spain – Jobless rate reaches 7-year low in July

The unemployment rate in Spain has dropped for the fifth consecutive month in July and has reached its lowest level in 7 years as the tourist sector helped cut the number of jobless by nearly 84,000.

The number of unemployed decreased by 83,993 persons to 3.68 million persons, the lowest figure since...