Quitting Caymans

In the Cayman Islands, recruitment firm BrightStaff, which specialises in global financial services recruitment, has expanded its repatriation services for professionals as they are in high demand in other jurisdictions. "Opportunities in financial markets such as Toronto or Dublin are leading more professionals to consider relocating," said Brightstaff's Lisa George.

US employs more temps

US staffing firms employed an average 2.9m temporary and contract workers from April to June. This is up 3.3% on the same period last year, according to a survey of the American Staffing Association, and was at a cost of $18bn (£9.6bn). It was the seventh consecutive quarter in which the staffing industry employed more people than in the same period of any previous year.

Housemaids crisis hits Saudi

A lack of airline seats is preventing around 20,000 housemaids with valid visas from travelling to Saudi Arabia, reports Arab News. Saudi recruitment agents have made appeals to Saudi Arabian Airlines to operate extra flights to bring those maids whose arrival is considered by local households as the "most urgent". The maids are mostly from Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Nationality is an influence

More than half of respondents to a recent poll for Bayt.com, a recruitment website, claimed their nationality was an obstacle to getting hired. Another Bayt poll found that 40% of people claimed nationality played a "blatant" role in the advancement of employees in the Middle East region. Both surveys attracting hundreds of respondents, mostly based in the UAE and the Gulf. A third poll which attracted 208 online hits, suggests that salary levels in the region are heavily influenced by a person's country of origin. Nearly half of respondents to said that nationality dictates salary "to a large extent".