‘Lax oversight’ prompts suspected abuse of UK visa sponsor system

The UK Home Office has recently granted hundreds of newly established care providers licences to sponsor workers from abroad, despite having no track record of providing services in the UK, reports The Guardian and the Observer. Sponsor licences have been granted to newly formed firms that have never...

Staffing firms with AI strategy saw more growth in 2023

Staffing firms that adopted an AI strategy were the most likely to report revenue growth in 2023 (57%), followed by those who are experimenting with generative AI (51%), according to a new global report by Bullhorn.

The report noted that the figure is an indication of the firms’ overall willingness...

Staffing veteran joins cast of Celebrity Big Brother

Gary Goldsmith, co-founder of The Recruitment Directors Lunch Club, a membership club for staffing executives has joined contestants in the latest series of the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother airing on ITV1 and ITVX.

Goldsmith acts as mentor/advisor to numerous staffing firms and his participation in the...

Luxembourg is only OECD country with negative gender pay gap

Luxembourg is a leader across the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries on the gender pay gap, with a negative gap of -0.2% between 2021 and 2022, meaning average earnings are higher for women than men, according to the latest Women in Work 2024 report by PwC.

Luxembourg’s...

Poland ranks at the top for remote job opportunities

Poland had the highest proportion of remote job ads on Indeed at the end of January 2024, reports Silicon Republic, citing the analysis by Indeed. This was followed by Spain (18.7%), Austria (18.1%), the UK (16.1%) and Ireland (15.4%). The analysis looked at job postings from 13 European countries. The...

UK businesses want focus on investment in tax changes

The UK Recruitment and Employment Confederation surveyed business and found that they want a focus on business investment from the UK’s Spring Budget tax changes.

It found that 47.1% of businesses said improving the tax system to support business investment is what they most want to hear. That was ahead...

Adevinta Q4 revenue up 9% with online classifieds fuelling growth

Fourth-quarter revenue at Adevinta ASA (ADE:OSL) rose 9% to €472.0 million with online classifieds fuelling growth. Online classified revenue was up 14% to €354 million despite the jobs category being down slightly year over year in the company’s EU5 market, according to the company.

Adevinta, which...

Jobindex says turnover to increase despite decline in ads

Jobindex A/S reported on 26 February the number of online job ads in Denmark fell 10% during 2023 to approximately 25,000 in January and the job market will likely see a slight decline this year. Still, despite the cooling job market, the job board operator forecast turnover of DKK 400 million (€53.7...

UK government spending £7.38 billion on contingent labor

UK government spend on contingent labour rose 4.5% to nearly £7.38 billion in the 2022/23 year, according to a letter from the UK Cabinet Office this past week.

The letter, which was sent to a member of the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, was first reported by Civil Service World. It was  sent...

Group backs criticism of IR35 in UK committee report

The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed lauded a report by the UK government’s Public Accounts Committee that criticized IR35 and off-payroll working rules, according to an announcement by IPSE on 28 February.

“The [Public Accounts Committee] is absolutely right to highlight...