Europe – Apple ends contracts for hundreds of workers hired to listen to Siri recordings (The Guardian)

Hundreds 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)

Eurofirms, 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

DPA 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

Google 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

While 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....

Netherlands – Deliveroo must pay pension premium for riders with employment contracts, judge says

Human cloud food courier firm Deliveroo must pay a pension premium for all its employees in the Netherlands with an employment contract a sub-district court judge in the Netherlands has determined.

The ruling was made in proceedings initiated by the Industry Pension Fund for Professional Road Transport....

UK – Contract Watch: Sopra Steria appointed to Crown Commercial Framework

Sopra Steria Recruitment, owned by Resource Solutions Group, announced that it has been awarded a place on Crown Commercial Service’s framework to provide temporary and fixed term staff to NHS contracting authorities along with various other UK public sector bodies.

This framework was launched as a...

Netherlands – DPA Group shows signs of recovery

DPA Group (DPA: NL), the Dutch staffing firm, reported revenue for the first six months of the year of €75.3 million, an increase of 4.2% on an organic basis when compared to the previous year.

Sweden – Wise Group second-quarter revenue flat, EBITDA sinks

Wise Group (WISE:SS), the Swedish staffing firm published preliminary results on Friday for the second quarter ending 30 June 2019 of SEK 240.4 million (€22.4 million), no change compared with the same quarter last year. 

Sweden – NetJobs revenue tumbles in Q2, hit by weak Germany and Sweden

Swedish job board NetJobs (NJOB: STO) reported revenue for the second quarter ending 30 June 2019 of SEK 5.4 million (€0.5 million), a decrease of 42% compared with the same period last year.