Australia – Gender pay gap narrows in 2018, but men earn 21.3% more than female colleagues (The Guardian)

Australian men still earn more than their female colleagues in all industries, but the gender pay gap is narrowing at a very slow pace, The Guardian reports, citing research from the Workplace Gender Equality agency. On average, a man can expect to take home 21.3% more in total salary than a woman, this...

Italy – Openjobmetis revenue up 3.2%, growth led by personnel recruitment and selection business

Italian recruitment firm, Openjobmetis SpA (OJM:MIL) reported revenue for the first nine months ended 30 September 2018 of €443.6 million, an increase of 3.2% compared with last year.

Openjobmetis engages in employment services and focuses on the provision of specialist recruitment activities.

UK – Morson Group acquires Waldeck

UK-based engineering recruitment firm Morson Group announced that it has acquired multi-disciplinary engineering, technical and risk management consultancy Waldeck.

No financial details were disclosed. Waldeck will become a wholly owned subsidiary within the Morson Group, maintaining its own brand...

UK – Average advertised vacancies drop in September while competition falls to all-time low

Average advertised vacancies in the UK declined by 3.1% in September 2018 when compared to the same period last year, according to Adzuna’s latest report on jobs.

Total advertised vacancies this month sit at 1,121,754. This was 3.1% lower than the same period last year and a 1.4% slump from August 2018....

Germany – Number of employed in third quarter tops 45 million for the first time since reunification

Germany’s labour market boom continued in the third quarter with the number of people in employment reaching 45.04 million, the first time that quarterly figures have exceeded the 45 million mark since reunification in 1990, according to data from the Federal Statistics Office (Destatis).

Compared to...

Netherlands – Permanent employees more likely to experience work-related mental fatigue than flexible workers

Employees in the Netherlands with a permanent employment contract are more likely to experience work-related mental fatigue symptoms than employees with a flexible contract, according to data from the CBS (Statistics Netherlands).

The data found that in 2017, 17% of permanent employees complained about...

UK – Number of temporary employees down 4.6%, unemployment falls to 4.1%

The number of temporary employees in the UK decreased by 4.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis to a total of 1.53 million in the three-month period from July to September 2018 when compared to the same period a year ago, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Temporary workers are self-identified...

World – OECD unemployment rate falls slightly to 5.2% in September

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) unemployment rate fell by 0.1% to 5.2% in September 2018 when compared to August. Across the OECD countries, 33.1 million people were unemployed.

Harmonised unemployment rates define the unemployed as people of working age who are without...

Middle East – UAE likely to see $50 billion skilled labour gap by 2030 – Staffing Quote of the Week

By 2030, the UAE (United Arab Emirates) is likely to experience a skilled labour gap worth USD 50 billion, making up 5% of the economy, according to Jonathan Holmes, country chair and managing director of Korn Ferry Middle East.

The Arabian Business reports that Holmes, who was speaking at the Arabian...

UK – Nominations deadline for ‘Best Staffing Firms to Work For’ is 7 December

Employee satisfaction is one of the key drivers of staffing firm success. Find out what your employees are thinking by participating in Staffing Industry Analysts’ annual “Best Staffing Firms to Work For” program. The deadline to participate is 7 December.

Nominations are now being accepted for...