UK – Sellick Partnership sells majority stake to Samsic

Manchester-based professional services recruitment specialist Sellick Partnership announced today that it has sold a majority stake to Samsic, a France-based soft service provider.

Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

The existing management team for Sellick, led by founder and managing director...

UK – All workers to receive payslip as new government law comes into force

New legislation came into force on 6 April 2019 which ensures that all UK workers receive a pay slip.

According to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, this means almost 300,000 workers who previously did not receive a pay slip will now do so starting from this week, including...

UK – Northern Ireland Audit Office says locum doctor costs ‘unsustainable’ after costs nearly triple in six years

The Auditor General of Northern Ireland said the overreliance on locum doctors is unsustainable after a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office showed that total spending on locum doctors rose from £28.4 million in 2011-12 to £83 million in 2017-18, an increase of 192.2%.

Auditor General and Comptroller...

UK – Parity Group COO steps down

Specialist technology staffing company Parity Group announced yesterday that Alan Rommel has resigned as Chief Operating Officer and as a Board Director with immediate effect.

Rommel was COO from February 2019 and prior to that was CEO of the company from September 2015. He is leaving the firm to pursue...

Switzerland – Adecco Group Swiss Job Market Index rises 7%

Swiss companies advertised 7% more job ads in the first quarter of 2019 when compared to the same period a year ago, according to the Adecco Group Swiss Job Market Index conducted by the Swiss Job Market Monitor from the University of Zurich.

The number of advertised positions for all occupational groups...

South Africa – AdvTech finalises acquisition of Monash South Africa

South African recruitment firm AdvTech which also operates in the education sector, announced that it has fulfilled all conditions and received approval from the Competition Tribunal to acquire Monash South Africa, a South African private tertiary education institution with students from more than 50...

UK – Councils spend millions of pounds on agency social workers as they struggle to recruit permanent staff, investigation reveals

An investigation by The Guardian found that 129 out of 152 local councils across England spent a total of £335 million in 2017/18 hiring agency social workers. This represented a slight fall from £360 million in 2016/17, which in turn had risen from £342 million in 2015/16.

The Guardian cited government...

UK – Private sector employment rate in Northern Ireland falls at quickest rate since 2013, business activity also drops amid Brexit uncertainty

Northern Ireland’s private sector employment level fell at its fastest rate in nearly six years, while business activity also decreased for the first time since July 2016, according to March data from the Ulster Bank Northern Ireland Purchasing Manager Index.

The Index suggested that Brexit uncertainty...

Spain – Employment rate for under 25’s reaches second-highest rate in a decade, Randstad finds

The employment rate for professionals under 25 years of age in Spain stood at 66.5% in 2018, the second-highest rate in the last 10 years, according to a study from Randstad Spain.

The 66.5% employment rate was the highest since 2008’s rate of 71%, this was then followed by five consecutive years of...

Ireland – Health Services to freeze recruitment for three months to manage costs (RTE Ireland)

Ireland’s Health Services (HSE) announced that it will introduce a three-month recruitment freeze in the health service in an effort to manage costs, reports RTE Ireland. In a letter to senior HSE directors, the Deputy Director General of the HSE Liam Woods said the decision is based upon the financial...