UK – Morgan Hunt acquires Design Build Maintain Recruitment

UK-based Morgan Hunt announced that it acquired Design Build Maintain (DBM) Recruitment to deliver the specialist recruitment services required across public and private sectors.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

DBM Recruitment, a corporate member of the Recruitment & Employment...

Sweden – NetJobs CFO to step down

Swedish job board NetJobs announced that CFO Anna Björfell will be stepping down from her position no later than 30 September 2019.

Björfell will continue to work in her current position as CFO until a successor is in place. 

She was first appointed as CFO for NetJobs in 2010. Before NetJobs, Björfell...

Finland – Labour market rigidity a ‘bottleneck’ for recruitment, survey finds

Finland’s labour market rigidity is a bottleneck for recruitment, according to a survey commissioned by the Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA).

EVA’s survey polled more than 1,200 high-level business executives in Finland on the country’s competitiveness situation. Competitiveness was divided...

Croatia – Government lifts quota for foreign workers in tourism and construction (Reuters)

The Croatian government will increase its quota for foreign workers in tourism and construction for this year, following a recent appeal by employers, reports Reuters. Croatia’s tourist businesses urged the government last week to let in more foreign workers to help staff bars, restaurants and other...

Netherlands – Westerduin Group acquires Ad hoc Teacher

The Westerduin Group, a Netherlands HR firm, announced that it acquired Ad hoc Teacher (adhocdocent), an education recruitment firm also based in the Netherlands.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Ad hoc Teacher has been active as a service provider in the education sector since...

UK – SMEs more prepared to make recruitment decisions than larger businesses: The Adecco Group

A third, or 34%, of small medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK think they have enough information to make recruitment decisions after the UK leaves the European Union, according to a tracker from the Adecco Group UK & Ireland.

Adecco Group’s UK&I's ‘Spring 2019 Brexit Tracker’ found discrepancies...

France – Government reveals labour market reforms (France24)

French President Emmanuel Macron's government yesterday unveiled plans to make it more difficult for the unemployed to claim benefits, reports France 24. The jobless benefits reforms are part of an overhaul of France's labour market that aims to boost the nation's economy. However, trade unions have...

UK – Interserve Chairman to step down (Sky News)

Sky News reports Interserve chairman Glyn Barker is preparing to step down following a deal that saw the outsourcing firm taken over by a consortium of its lenders. The company, which entered administration in March 2019, is now working with executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles to find a successor....

World – Tech Roundup: Zego, Slatecube

Zego, a London-based startup that offers insurance to gig economy workers such as those in Deliveroo and Uber, has raised $42 million in funding. The funds will be used for Zego’s expansion across Europe and to increase its workforce from 75 to 150. According to TechCrunch, the latest Series B investment...

Europe – European Council adopts new directive for more predictable and transparent work

The Council of the European Union has adopted a regulation establishing a European Labour Authority with the aim of making working conditions across the EU more transparent and predictable.

The new law introduces new minimum rights, as well as new rules on the information to be provided to workers about...