Sweden – NGS Group revenue decreases 5.7%, but operating profit sees improvement

Second-quarter net sales at NGS Group AB (NGS: SS), the Swedish healthcare and education staffing firm, decreased 5.7% from the year-ago quarter. The group also reported operating profit increased 15.0% with an operating margin of 8.2% compared to 6.7% in the year-ago quarter.

Russia – TalentTech acquires freelance platform Fl.ru

TalentTech, a subsidiary of Russian investment company Severgroup, has purchased 97.5% of freelance recruitment site Fl.ru.

No financial details of the transaction were disclosed. However, Alexei Soloviev, partner at iTech Capital told RusLetter that the purchase price could be in the range of RUB 500...

Netherlands – Headfirst Source Group receives greenlight for Myler acquisition

Dutch staffing firm Headfirst Source Group has received approval for the acquisition of Myler from competition regulator Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets.

Headfirst had first announced in July that it acquired 100% of the shares of Myler, a company based in the Netherlands that specialises...

UK – Gattaca provides trading update, full year net fee income shows slight progress on a like-for-like basis

Specialist engineering and professional services staffing firm Gattaca (GATC:LSE) published a trading update for the 12 months ended 31 July 2018 and expects profits to be broadly in-line with market expectations.

The group reported Net Fee Income (NFI) on a like-for-like basis. Like-for-Like assumes...

UK – Committee report calls on smaller businesses to report gender pay gap

A new report from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has suggested that small businesses should be required to publish gender pay gap figures alongside big companies.

Currently, only businesses with more than 250 staff must report on their gender pay gap.

The Committee noted...

Ireland – Job vacancies up 7% in Q2, but border counties report a fall in vacancies

Job vacancies in Ireland grew 7% year-on-year in the second quarter when compared to the same period last year, according to the latest vacancies index from IrishJobs.ie.

The index also showed that while job vacancies grew nationally, border counties were at risk of economic decline.

In the second quarter...

France – UK firm ordered to pay former employee €60,000 for breaching ‘right to disconnect’ from work (The Telegraph)

The French wing of British pest control and hygiene company Rentokil Initial has been ordered to pay a former employee €60,000 after it breached his ‘right to disconnect’ from work outside of office hours, reports The Telegraph. In its decision dated 12 July 2018, France’s Court de Cassation,...

UK – Capita H1 revenue and profits sink again, but says it is making progress in recovery

Capita (CPI: LSE) the UK-based provider of business process outsourcing solutions and professional support services reported underlying revenue declined by 4% in H1 2018 when compared to the previous year. 

Underlying revenue on a like-for-like basis, excluding results from businesses exited...

Scotland – Taranata Group reports 2017 turnover of £62 million, plans further acquisitions

The Edinburgh-based Taranata Group, a clutch of recruitment firms brought together by entrepreneur and investor Paul Atkinson in 2017  reported its first set of figures since undertaking structuring and branding initiatives.

The Taranata Group comprises Head Resourcing, Head Medical, Change Recruitment...

UK – Research finds men are more likely to be scrutinised for their appearance at work

A study from jobs site CV-Library on workplace gender specific rules found that the majority were aimed at the appearance of male employees.

CV-Library found that 22.5% of employees have to adhere to gender specific rules at work, despite over half (56.2%) agreeing that these rules are sexist.

The...