UK – Thousands of minimum wage workers set to receive £2 million in back pay

More than 13,000 employees in the UK will be refunded approximately £2 million in compensation after government investigations named and shamed firms that did not comply with National Minimum Wage or Living Wage laws.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published a list of 233...

France – Unemployment rate in Q2 falls to lowest level in five years

France’s jobless rate fell to 9.5% for the second quarter, down from 9.9% a year ago and from 9.6% in Q1 according to the French statistical body INSEE (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.)

The jobless rate calculated by INSEE corresponds to standards set by the International Labour...

UK – Hays ranked among leading interviewers in the UK

Glassdoor UK has unveiled its list of the ’50 Best Places to Interview in 2017’ with international recruitment firm Hays ranked in the top ten of companies.

Hays placed seventh on the list with an interview experience rating of 83%. Interview difficulty at the firm was rated as 3.7 out of 5 with an...

Ireland – Professionals seeking jobs rises in July as vacancies fall

There was a 5% increase in the number of professionals seeking jobs in Ireland in July compared to the same month a year ago, however professional job vacancies available in Ireland reduced by 12% in the same period according to the Morgan McKinley Ireland Monthly Employment Monitor.

The employment monitor...

UK – Amazon to create more than 1,000 new jobs in Bristol (Sky News)

Amazon has announced plans for a new distribution centre in Bristol that would create more than 1,000 new jobs, reports Sky News. The new jobs will be permanent and Amazon plans to start recruiting engineers, operations managers, HR and IT specialists ahead of the facility's opening in 2018. The centre...

UK – Temp worker numbers down 5%, number of zero-hours contracts falls

The number of temporary employees in the UK fell by 4.8% to a total of 1.56 million in the three-month period from April 2017 to June 2017 when compared to the same period a year ago, according to seasonally adjusted figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

ONS estimates from the Labour Force...

Sweden – Wise Group CEO resigns

Swedish staffing firm Wise Group has announced that CEO Roland Gustavsson has resigned as CEO effective February 2018.

Gustavsson has worked in various positions within the Wise Group for 13 years, of which five were as CEO for the group. Gustavsson stated that he will move on and “search for new challenges.”...

Netherlands – Average hourly rate charged by freelancers remains flat in 2017

The average hourly rate charged by freelancers (known as zzp’ers in the Netherlands) remained flat at €43 in 2017, according to research from freelancer site Hoofdkraan.

Broken down by industry, those in the Marketing and Communications saw a decline of 5%, while management and organisation (-2%),...

UK – More than four million ‘struggle’ with flexible employment

More than four million people in the UK regularly experience 'precarious scheduling': flexible working with limited hours dictated by management, often with little notice, and to the detriment of employees' home lives and mental health, according to a new study from Cambridge and Oxford sociologists....

UK – Brexit causing London to haemorrhage talent and risk jobs

London saw a 33% decrease in professionals seeking jobs as well as an 11% drop in jobs available in July, when compared to the previous year, according to the latest Morgan McKinley London Employment Monitor.

Hakan Enver, Operations Director, Morgan McKinley Financial Services, commented on the year-on-year...