UK – Workers and jobseekers’ confidence in labour market falls, report finds

Confidence in the UK labour market among workers and jobseekers fell from 77% to 67%, according to a report from jobs site Monster and the Centre for Economics and Business Research.

The report, ‘Monster Jobs Confidence Index’, defines worker and jobseeker confidence as how an individual feels about...

Europe – Job vacancy rate rises in euro area and EU 28 in Q1

The job vacancy rate in the euro area (EA19) stood at 2.3% in the first quarter of 2019, up from 2.1% in the first quarter of 2018. At the same time, in the EU28, the job vacancy rate was 2.4%, up from 2.2% in the first quarter of 2018, according to data published by Eurostat, the statistical office...

Spain – Employment in SMEs up in Q1, Randstad finds

SMEs (small to medium enterprises) in Spain saw employment grow by 3.2% in Spain during the first quarter of 2019, when compared to the same period last year, according to Randstad Spain.

During the first quarter of 2019, SMEs generated a total of 58,644 jobs.

Broken down by company size, Randstad found...

UK – SThree net fees up 9% in constant currency, international growth offsets UK&I slowdown

International recruitment firm, SThree (STHR: LSE) published a trading update for the six months ended 31 May 2019 with group net fees up 9% in constant currency when compared to the same period last year. 

The company said its performance in the first half of the year was in line with management...

Belgium – Impact acquires majority stake in Dutch employment agency Haldu Groep

Belgian employment agency, Impact, announced that it has acquired a controlling interest in Dutch employment agency Haldu Groep. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Haldu Groep, founded in 2010, through the merger of three employment agencies, specialises in the construction, engineering...

World – Fiverr begins trading on NYSE; firm ranks as seventh-largest B2B human cloud platform

Israel-based online staffing platform, Fiverr International, (NYSE: FVRR) began trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange.

The company priced shares at $2 and reached $41.68 during yesterday’s trading session, according to the Financial Times.

The number of shares offered in the IPO was 5,263,158....

France – Temporary employment down in Q1

Temporary employment recorded a decrease of 1.7% in the first quarter of 2019 when compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Employment, Vocational Training and Social Dialogue (Dares).

At the end of the first quarter of 2019, there were 795,100 temporary workers in...

UK – REC comments on NHS agency staff consultation response

NHS Improvement today updated a clause to the proposed rules to allow NHS trusts to use agency workers in non-clinical, admin and estates roles “where there is an exceptional and direct risk to patient safety.”

The update was the result of their consultation on reducing expenditure on NHS agency staff...

World – Workforce Solutions Buyer Survey open to contingent workforce program leaders (The Staffing Stream)

Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2019 Workforce Solutions Buyer Survey, is still open for contingent workforce program leaders across the globe and closes at the end of the day today. By participating in the survey, program leaders can improve their CW program and compare their programs to their counterparts’....

World – OECD unemployment rate falls to 5.2% in April

The unemployment rate for the 36 countries that are members of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) fell by 0.1%, to 5.2%, in April 2019 when compared to the previous month.

Across the OECD, 33.2 million people were unemployed.

In the euro area, the unemployment...