UK – Contract Watch: Gibbs Hybrid, Affinity Workforce

Gibbs Hybrid announced that it has won major contracts across each of its markets. The total value of these four contracts is £50 million over the next five years.

The contract wins range across Poland, Dublin, UK and US, supporting multiple Fortune 500 clients including a bank, a digital technology...

Thailand – Government to recruit up to 42,000 temporary workers for the seafood sector (Undercurrent News)

Thailand’s government is stepping up its recruitment efforts which includes implementing an agreement with Myanmar’s government to recruit an extra 42,000 temporary workers for the seafood sector by November 2018, reports Undercurrent News. Thailand is reportedly facing a shortage of approximately...

UK – Dillistone provides trading update, highlights progress of GatedTalent division

Dillistone Group (DSG: LSE), the UK-based supplier of recruitment software for the recruitment industry, announced a trading update today.

The group, which will announce its interim results in the week beginning 24 September 2018, expects full year results to be in line with market expectations before...

UK – Gattaca to withdraw from several international markets to focus on more profitable territories

UK-based specialist engineering and technology recruiter Gattaca PLC announced today that it intends to withdraw from a number of international markets in order to focus on more profitable territories.

Gattaca said it will withdraw from the contract telecommunications infrastructure markets in Africa,...

Netherlands – ABU reports staffing growth

The total amount of hours worked by temporary workers in the Netherlands grew by 2% in the eighth period (weeks 29-32) of 2018, compared to the same period last year, according to the Dutch Federation of Private Employment Agencies (ABU).

ABU divides the year into four-week periods, with the eighth period...

France – Executive compensation up 2.7% in 2018, the biggest increase in six years

Salaries for executives in France rose by 2.7% in the first half of 2018, when compared to the same period last year, according to data from Expectra, a subsidiary of Randstad. This increase is the biggest in six years.

According to Expectra, the 2.7% increase in H1 2018 marks the eighth consecutive year...

UK – Contract Watch: Acorn awarded contract to supply temporary dairy workers to Yeo Valley

UK-based recruitment firm Acorn, which is owned by Synergie, announced that it has been awarded a new contract to provide temporary dairy workers to Yeo Valley, a dairy company based in Somerset, England.

Acorn has worked with Yeo Valley for several years already, with the new contract involving supplying...

UK – IPE Ventures acquires EMR Search & Selection Limited

UK-based specialist marketing recruitment agency EMR Search & Selection Limited announced that it has been acquired by IPE Ventures, the private equity arm of the IPE Group, from the Five Ten Group.

No financial details of the transaction were disclosed.

EMR, founded in 1994, provides marketing, digital,...

Belgium – Federgon: Temporary workers’ hours decline in July

The number of hours worked by temporary agency workers in Belgium in July decreased by 2.83% when compared to the same period last year, according to Federgon, the Belgian Federation of Staffing Agencies.

Both the white-collar and the blue-collar sector reported year-on-year decreases of 3.18% and 2.54%...

Europe – Euro area and EU28 unemployment fall to lowest rate since 2008, Eurostat finds

The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate stood at 8.2% in July 2018, down from 9.1% in July 2017 and the lowest rate recorded in the euro area since November 2008, according to data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Eurostat’s data also showed that the EU28...