Spain – Over 1,000 Amazon workers plan to strike over wages and rights (Reuters)

More than 1,000 Amazon workers in Spain plan to stage their first strike with a two-day walkout to protest what unions claim are efforts to reduce employees’ rights, reports Reuters. The strike was called by Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), Spain’s largest union, as well as other unions. The union claims...

Italy – Openjobmetis full year revenue up 27.6%, growth boosted by contract work

Italian recruitment firm, Openjobmetis SpA (OJM:MIL) reported its consolidated results for the year ended 31 December 2017 with a total revenue of €583.9 million, an increase of 27.6% compared with last year.

Openjobmetis is an Italy-based company engaged in employment services and focuses on the provision...

UK – February sees decrease in jobs available and professionals seeking jobs

February saw a 14% decrease in jobs available, year-on-year in the UK while the number of professionals seeking jobs also fell by 35% during the same period, according to data from Morgan McKinley.

Hakan Enver, Managing Director, Morgan McKinley Financial Services, commented on the figures and highlighted...

Netherlands – Healthcare sector jobs expected to rise, but employers still face staff shortages

The number of jobs in the healthcare sector in the Netherlands is expected to rise to approximately 1.1 million this year, an increase of 1.5% from last year, according to UWV, the employment insurance agency.

With the increase in the number of healthcare jobs, staff shortages are also increasing. According...

UAE – Online recruitment down 39% in January, Monster finds

The Monster Employment Index for the UAE showed online hiring fell by 39% in January 2018 when compared to the previous year.

The index is a monthly gauge of online job hiring activity by Monster.com, which records the industries and occupations that show the highest and lowest growth.

Contributing to...

Nigeria – Nokia workers strike over casual staff and anti-labour practices (CommunicationsWeek)

Workers in Nokia Solutions Networks in Nigeria are on a three-day strike to protest against anti-labour practices by the management of the company, reports CommunicationsWeek. The workers are members of the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria. Okonu Abdullahi,...

UK – Government names and shames nearly 200 employers for failing to pay minimum wage

Nearly 200 UK employers were named and shamed by the government today for underpaying more than 9,000 minimum wage workers by 1.1 million.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy also fined the employers a total of £1.3 million in penalties for breaking minimum wage laws. The government...

UK – Gender pay gap means women work for free for 67 days, study finds

Women in the UK are effectively working for free for more than two months due to the gender pay gap, according to data published by the Trades Union Congress.

The current gender pay gap for full-time and part-time employees stands at 18.4%. This pay gap means that women effectively work for free for the...

Switzerland – Jobless rate falls to 3.2% in February, number of jobseekers declines

The Swiss registered unemployment rate fell to 3.2% in February from 3.6% in the same period last year, according to figures from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.

Figures from SECO showed that when compared with the same month of the previous year, unemployment fell by 1,608 persons.

When broken...

UK – Matthew Taylor rates government response to his review (The Independent)

Job Tsar Matthew Taylor, the leader of the Taylor Review, an independent review into modern employment practices, rated the government’s response to his review with a four out of ten, reports The Independent. Taylor said the score was partly because the government was “consulting on a whole host...