UK – Employers still interested in IT skills, but job ads fall

UK employers remain interested in hiring software developers and programmers as well as other professionals with IT skills, according to an analysis by CompTIA, a trade association for the global technology industry.

However, the number of IT job postings in the second quarter fell 13% from the first...

Belgium – Adecco says data of Belgian staff affected by Suprema leak

The Adecco Group told Belgium’s privacy regulator that the breach of a security platform run by South Korea’s Suprema ID Inc. compromised the biometric data of some 2,000 employees of its Belgian unit, according to Bloomberg.

The breach of Suprema’s BioStar 2 system affected...

UK – Agency workers to be recruited for border checks in the event of “no deal”

Agency workers will take over tasks from Border Force guards for the first time in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the Guardian says.

It comes as the government said it will recruit up to 1,000 Border Force officers to deal with expected delays if Boris Johnson fails to strike a deal with EU leaders by...

UK – More than a third of permanent workers want flexibility

More than a third of Britons in full-time work are currently looking for a more flexible job, research suggests.

In a survey of 2,000 Brits, 71% told price comparison website Nerdwallet that flexible working – in terms of both the hours and location they work – is important to them when it comes...

UK – Retailers starting to hire seasonal workers for Christmas earlier than usual

Despite the fact that the last Bank Holiday of the year is still ahead, recruiters are already hiring for Christmas part-timers, according to recruitment website Indeed.

Indeed has said many firms will be on the hunt for seasonal workers a month earlier this year.

In fact, according to The Mirror prestigious...

UK – NHS biggest IT recruiter, ahead of Amazon

The NHS and Amazon have been counted among the most active IT job recruiters for 2019, with the majority of listings asking for software development or core IT skills.

Figures released on Wednesday showed that of the 140,000 IT job listings posted during the second quarter of 2019, 50,329 of these were...

UK – Empresaria revenue and profits slow down

Empresaria Group plc (AIM: EMR), the international specialist staffing group has announced its unaudited interim results for the six-month period ended 30 June 2019 with revenue 2% lower in constant currency and operating profit sliding by almost a third. However, the company states that it is still...

UK - Chief Executive pay falls but is over 100 times higher than median salary

An annual assessment of FTSE 100 pay packages, released today, shows that median pay for chief executives fell by 13% between 2017 and 2018. However, the median CEO salary of £3.46 million a year is still more than 117 times that of the median UK full-time worker earning £29,574. In addition, 1,394...

UK – Pertemps’ salary sacrifice scheme is not an economic activity for VAT

In a decision dated 7 August 2019 (HMRC v Pertemps Ltd [2019] UKUT 234 (TCC)), the Upper Tax Tribunal dismissed HMRC’s appeal and held that the operation by Pertemps of a salary sacrifice scheme providing travel and subsistence expenses to employees working on temporary assignments was not an economic...

Switzerland – High growth in demand for sales specialists, Michael Page Swiss Job Index

According to the Michael Page Swiss Job Index, demand for sales specialists outpaced all other major job categories with +14.6% year-on-year growth to August 2019, and a monthly increase of +3.7%. Across Switzerland, advertised jobs declined by -5.0% between July and August, which is consistent with...