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Germany – Jobs growth slowing, up just 0.8%
29 August 2019Employment growth slowed in Germany. The number of people employed in Germany rose by 358,000 people, or 0.8% in July compared to July 2018, Statistisches Bundesamt reported Thursday. That’s lower than the year-over-year growth of 0.9% in June, 0.9% in May and 1.0% in April.
Meanwhile, the number of...
Ireland – Average weekly earnings rise 3.5% year over year in Q2
29 August 2019Workers’ average weekly earnings in Ireland rose 3.5% year over year in the second quarter to €771.12, according to preliminary estimates released this week by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office.
The Central Statistics Office also reported average hourly earnings rose 3.8% in the second quarter...
World – Hays profits impacted by reduced business confidence and restructuring in Europe
29 August 2019Hays (HAS: LSE) today reported net fees of £1.12 billion for the full year ended 30 June 2019, an increase of 6% on a like-for-like basis when compared to the same period last year.
The group also reported that 19 countries delivered all-time record performances.
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South Africa – AdvTech full year revenue rises 14.8%, profits see uptick
29 August 2019South Africa-based recruitment firm AdvTech (ADH: SJ) reported revenue today for the six months ended 30 June 2019 of ZAR 2.49 billion (USD 162.2 million), an increase of 14.8% compared to the previous year’s results.
AdvTech adopted International Financial Reporting Standard 16 and have restated last...
Netherlands – ZZP Nederland takes over Victor Mundi’s self-employed initiatives
29 August 2019ZZP Nederland, a Dutch independent organisation for the self-employed, announced that it has taken over ownership of the self-employed initiatives of Netherlands-based marketing firm Victor Mundi.
The self-employed initiatives include ‘Day of the Self-employed’, the ‘FOTY (freelancer of the year)...
Europe – Apple ends contracts for hundreds of workers hired to listen to Siri recordings (The Guardian)
29 August 2019Hundreds of Apple workers across Europe who were employed to evaluate its virtual assistant Siri recordings for errors have lost their jobs after the company announced it was suspending the programme, referred to as ‘grading’, earlier this month, The Guardian reports. More than 300 employees have...
Spain – Eurofirms finalises acquisition of Job Digital Networks (Expansión)
29 August 2019Eurofirms, the Spain-based human resources firm with operations in both Spain and Portugal, has finalised the acquisition of Barcelona-based Job Digital Networks, which owns online job search platform CornerJob, reports Expansión, citing sources close to the group. CornerJob says it offers a 100% mobile...
Netherlands – DPA Group appoints new CEO
28 August 2019DPA Group (DPA: NL), the Dutch staffing firm, announced today that Arnold van Mameren has been formally appointed as CEO of DPA Group.
Van Mameren succeeds Eric Winter, who has been at the helm of the company since 2011 and remains involved with DPA as a supervisory director.
DPA Group first...
Europe – Google to be investigated by competition regulators over claims it favours its own job search tool
28 August 2019Google is being investigated by regulators in Brussels over claims that it unfairly favors its tool for searching job listings, according to The Telegraph.
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, issued a warning yesterday that Google could be engaging in anti-competitive...
UK – Employers shrug off economic uncertainty and continue to hire despite lower business confidence
28 August 2019While employers’ confidence in the UK economy remains low, they are still looking to hire, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s latest JobsOutlook report.
The JobsOutlook report shows that confidence levels are at net: -26, a fall of 1% from the previous rolling quarter....