Japan – Link Staffing to transfer its domestic dispatch worker business

Link and Motivation announced its wholly-owned subsidiary Link Staffing would transfer its domestic dispatch worker business to iDA, a human resources business specialised in the fashion industry.

An absorption-type split will be implemented with Link Staffing as the splitting company and iDA as the successor...

New Zealand – Seek job ads up 37% over the year in October but restrictions weigh in

Job ads on job board Seek New Zealand were up by 37% in October 2021 when compared to October 2020 and up 15% when compared to October 2019.

When compared to the previous month, job ads were up 1%. Applications per job ad increased 2% over the month and were down 30% compared to the same month two years...

Singapore – Labour movement must transform itself to tackle job challenges, says deputy prime minister (Straits Times)

The labour movement will have to transform itself to tackle present and future concerns about jobs, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. The Straits Times reports that Keat said the labour movement must work more directly with companies to transform their businesses so that their workers can succeed....

India – Online recruitment up 9% in October: Monster Employment Index

Online recruitment in India grew by 9% in October 2021 compared to October 2020, according to the latest Monster Employment Index.

The Monster Employment Index increased to 280 in October 2021 from 257 in October 2020.

Month-on-month, the Index recorded a decline of 3% when compared to September 2021.

Despite...

Hong Kong – Labour market sees improvement as unemployment rate falls and employment increases

Hong Kong’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 4.3% in the three-month period ended October 2021, when compared to 6.4% in the same period last year, according to the latest labour force statistics published by the Census and Statistics Department.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment...

Asia Pacific – A third of job losses in Asia linked to tourism (Bloomberg)

Nearly a third of total job losses in five Asian countries were linked to tourism, with an estimated 1.6 million jobs lost, reports Bloomberg citing research from the International Labour Organisation. Data from Brunei, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam showed that job losses in tourism-related...

China – Employment stable as policy support continues (China.org.cn)

China has created 11.33 million new jobs in its urban areas during the first 10 months of this year, achieving the government’s target for the whole year in advance, reports China.org.cn. From January to October, the country's surveyed urban unemployment rate averaged 5.1%, said Fu Linghui, spokesperson...

Australia – Seek says its tracking to top end of FY 2022 guidance amid strong ad volumes

Australia job board Seek (ASX: SEK) provided a trading and guidance update today. Based on year to date trading performance, results are tracking to the top end of Seek’s FY22 guidance for revenue, EBITDA and net profit after tax for continuing operations.

In its trading update, the group said it saw...

Australia – Hiremii enters trading halt pending announcement

Hiremii, an Australia-based staffing platform for temporary and permanent hiring, announced that its securities will be placed in trading halt, pending a company announcement.

Unless ASX decides otherwise, the securities will remain in trading halt until the earlier of the commencement of normal trading...

Vietnam – Job opportunities fall in Q3 due to lockdown regulations, engineering jobs slip 45%

The number of jobs in Vietnam fell in the third quarter of 2021 when compared to Q2 2021, according to data from Michael Page Vietnam.

Jobs dipped in Q3 2021 compared to Q2 due to the direct impact from the country's Q3 pandemic lockdown. New job positions opened were largely on the decrease within Engineering...