UK – Nakama Group contractor revenue tumbles and loss deepens after Australian business struggles

Specialist recruitment services provider Nakama Group (NAK: AIM) reported results for the year ending 31 March 2018 with revenue of £16.8 million, a decrease of 25.4% compared to £22.5 million last year.

Revenue in the full year was impacted by difficulty in the group’s Australian subsidiary, which...

UK – Sharp growth in job vacancies leads to higher starting salaries in August

Staff vacancies in the UK continued to rise at a historically marked pace in August, leading to starting salaries growing at its second-fastest rate in over three years, according to the latest Report on Jobs from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

Recruitment consultancies signalled a further...

UK – ‘Measuring Good Work’ report focussing on Taylor Review and Good Work Plan

The Measuring Job Quality Working Group, led by the Royal Society of Arts and the Carnegie UK, published a report in response to the recommendations of Matthew Taylor’s Modern Employment Review and the UK government’s Good Work Plan.

The recommendations in the report detail the findings of the Measuring...

UK – Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority arrest three on suspicion of human trafficking

The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has arrested three Romanian nationals on suspicion of human trafficking offences in Derbyshire, with four potential victims safeguarded by officers.

A 17-year-old man and two women aged 33 and 36 were arrested by GLAA investigators at a residential address...

Netherlands – Government scraps controversial plan to reduce minimum wage for disabled workers (DutchNews.nl)

The Dutch government has abandoned its plan to allow companies to pay people with a disability less than the legal minimum wage after concluding the process would be too complicated, reports DutchNews.nl. Earlier this year the Dutch human rights commission condemned the plan and called it discriminatory...

UK – Government scraps promised tax cut for self-employed workers

A planned tax cut worth about £150 per person has been scrapped for 2.7 million self-employed workers by the UK government.

The government had originally planned to remove Class 2 National Insurance contributions (paid by self-employed people with profits of £6,205 or more a year) in April but the move...

Global – Korn Ferry Q1 revenue rises 15.7% in constant currency

Korn Ferry International Inc. (NYSE: KFY) yesterday reported total fee revenue rose 15.7% in constant currency in its fiscal first quarter ended 31 July. The increase on a reported basis was 16.0%. The international provider of executive search and consulting reported the organic growth was driven by...

UK – Complaints about employment agencies rise 52%

The number of complaints about employment agencies rose to 1,261 in the 2017/2018 year, up 52% from the previous year’s 828, according to the annual report from the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate released last week. The agency said it believes the increase is the result of greater awareness...

UK – NHS could save £480 million with ‘staff bank’ instead of agencies

The NHS could free up £480 million to reinvest into NHS services and improve patient care if trusts filled temporary vacancies with workers from a “staff bank” instead of using more costly staffing agencies, according to the UK health watchdog NHS Improvement. It is calling on all NHS trusts...

UK – Government should expand scheme for temporary agricultural workers, REC says

A scheme to bring in 2,500 seasonal agricultural workers from outside the EU into the UK was welcomed Thursday by Neil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation. But the government must bring in more types of workers.

“The reintroduction of the agricultural workers...