Pasona and Dai-ichi Life agree to deal for Benefit One

Japan-based Pasona Group announced it has come to an agreement with insurance company Dai-ichi Life Holdings on the acquisition of employee welfare service provider Benefit One Inc., a subsidiary of Pasona Group Inc.

In a meeting today, Dai-ichi Life announced that it commenced its tender offer with an...

Australian horticulture firm fined for labour hire law breaches

A Victorian horticulture company and its director was fined recently for engaging seven unlicensed labour hire providers to source workers for orchards in the Cobram area of Victoria, Australia.

Following legal action by the Labour Hire Authority (LHA), the Supreme Court of Victoria imposed penalties...

Matching Service 9-month revenue rises 5.4%

Matching Service Japan (6539:TYO), a recruitment firm based in Japan, reported revenue yesterday for the nine-month period ended 31 December 2023 of JPY 3.37 billion (USD 22.6 million), up 5.4% over the same period the year prior.

Quess Corp divests Qdigi Services to Onsitego

Quess Corp Ltd, the Indian staffing firm, announced this week it has agreed to divest its wholly-owned subsidiary, Qdigi Services Limited, to Onsitego, an India-based device-care provider.

Qdidi is an after-sales service provider for consumer products like mobile phones, electronics and durables with...

Online hiring in India edges down 5% in January

Online recruitment in India reported a 5% annual decrease in January 2023, according to the latest foundit Insights Tracker.

The foundit hiring index lowered from 277 in January 2023 to 262 in January 2024.

On a monthly basis, online hiring increased by 3% in December 2023.

The tracker registered a 5% increase...

Japan to ban private agencies from foreign worker’s job change process (The Mainichi)

The Japanese government is set to bar private job agencies from involvement in the job transfer process for foreign workers under the training and employment program that will replace the Technical Intern Training Program, reports The Mainichi. The move aims to eliminate extortionate job brokers. The...

Will Group 9-month revenue falls 4.3% while profits tumble

Japanese HR firm Will Group (6089:TYO), which focuses on temporary staffing, business contracting and recruitment, reported revenue today of JPY 103.91 billion (USD 702.9 million) for the nine months ended 31 December 2023, a decrease of 4.3% when compared to the same period last year.

Australian job ads down 13% in January amid cooling labour market

Job advertisements in Australia decreased by 13% year-on-year in January 2024 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to ANZ-Indeed job ads data published on ANZ Bank.

ANZ-Indeed Australian job ads rose 1.7% month-on-month in January following an upward revision in December to 0.6% month-on-month from...

Employment expands across Singapore in Q4 amid lower layoffs

Singapore’s labour market continued to expand in the fourth quarter of 2023 with the total employment growing, while layoffs eased, according to the Ministry of Manpower.

Total employment (excluding migrant domestic workers) continued to grow for the ninth consecutive quarter, expanding by 8,400 in...

Seasonally adjusted jobless rate improves in Taiwan

Taiwan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 3.41% in October 2023, down from 3.64% in October 2022, according to data from the Directorate General of Budget Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, compared with the previous year, the unemployment rate declined...