Jobless Claims Average Increases 2.3%

The four-week moving average of U.S. initial claims for unemployment insurance rose 2.3 percent in the week ended April 23, while total initial jobless claims rose by 6.2 percent.

In its weekly report released today, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the four-week moving average of jobless claims...

Canada: Average Weekly Earnings Rise

Average weekly earnings of nonfarm payroll employees in Canada rose 4.0 percent to C$874.83 on a seasonally adjusted, year-over-year basis in February 2011, Statistics Canada reported today.

Average weekly earnings rose in every province year over year in February. Growth was above the national average...

Largest, Fastest-Growing Firm Survey Opens

The annual survey to determine the lists of fastest-growing, largest and diversity staffing firms is now open. The lists are also known as “the buyers’ shopping lists” because they are distributed to client companies that use staffing services.

Staffing Industry Analysts compiles and publishes lists...

Netherlands – Randstad sees strong growth in Europe tempered by margin pressure in Netherlands and UK

Revenues were up by +22% from 3.04 billion Euro in Q1 2010 to 3.7 billion Euro in Q1 2011 at Randstad Holding (RAND:AEX), the world's second largest staffing firm. Interim results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2011, reveal that organic revenue growth was +17%, or +15 % per working day. The net...

UK - Harvey Nash's revenues up +12%

Revenues were up by +12% from 376 million Pounds in 2010 to 422 million Pounds in 2011 at staffing firm Harvey Nash Group Plc (HVN:LSE). Results for the year ended 31 January 2011 show that gross profit was up by +13% from 60.4 million Pounds in 2010 to 68.5 million Pounds in 2011.

Operating profit was...

Germany - Amadeus FiRe's EBITDA up +41.8%

Revenues were up by +20.1% from 25.8 million Euro in Q1 2010 to 31 million Euro in Q1 2011 at Amadeus FiRe AG (AAD:GER), the temporary and permanent staffing group. Interim results for the three months ended 31 March 2011, reveal that gross profit was up by +30.2% from 10 million Euro in Q1 2010 to 13...

Germany - Unemployment falls to 6.5%

Employment and unemployment in Germany continued their favourable trends in March 2011, according to the latest data published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The number of persons in employment living in Germany amounted to 40.48 million, which was over half a million more than a year...

France - Unemployment falls by -0.8% month-on-month

The latest data published by DARES on behalf of the official government job centres (Pôle Emploi) reveals that the number of category A (Unemployed) job seekers, in France, registered with job centres in March 2011 was down by -0.8% or -21,100 individuals to 2,680,000 compared to the previous month....

Netherlands - ABU elects Patrick Bakker as new director

The Association of Temporary Employment Agencies (ABU) has elected Patrick Bakker, CEO Adecco Group Netherlands, as a new board director. Bakker commented "ABU is hugely important for the staffing industry and we have very relevant issues on the table to discuss and resolve. The importance of flexibility...

UK - New InterQuest CEO starts today

Further to the announcement of 21 March 2011, IT staffing specialist, InterQuest Group Plc (ITQ:LSE), has announced that the appointment to the board of Mark Braund as Chief Executive Officer is effective as of today.

Gary Ashworth, previously joint CEO & Executive Chairman is now solely Executive...