Manpower Inc. to be the Pilot Global Foreign Multinational Corporation to Obtain a Temporary Staffing License

Manpower Inc. to be the Pilot Global Foreign Multinational Corporation to Obtain a Temporary Staffing License

August 15, 2007

Bringing Its Nearly 60-years Staffing Experience to China

    SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Manpower, a world leading employment service company,
recently obtained a temporary staffing business license.
Recognized as an industry expert with nearly 60 years of
staffing experience, operating under the highest ethical
standard and codes of conduct, Manpower was granted this
privilege as the pilot by the Shanghai Personnel Bureau
under the authorization from Ministry of Personnel of PRC. 
 

    "The lately announced China Labor Contract Law
effective on the 1st of January 2008 for the first time
regulates the temporary staffing industry, which answers
the needs for growth in this industry. Employer liability
and the forms of labor use has been defined in this law.
Moreover, this law puts forward higher standards of hiring
activities and HR management for enterprises and temporary
staffing companies. It is a challenge but also an
unprecedented opportunity for the staffing industry,"
says Lucille Wu, Managing Director of Manpower Greater
China. "Obtaining this pilot license is a blessing and
recognition of our persistence on our highest working ethic
throughout the world."

    As a veteran in the temporary staffing industry for the
last 60 years, Manpower is confident in its ability to
introduce temporary staffing services to companies in
China, bringing flexibility and greater efficiency to the
fast growing economy. Awarded for the last five years in a
row as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies, Manpower
continues its efforts to bring in best-in-class industry
practices and management expertise to China; and promotes
higher standards in the staffing industry for a sustainable
growth.

    "Manpower can help our clients increase their
business efficiency by offering flexible workforce
solutions and managing associates to achieve the highest
productivity," continues Lucille. "And we operate
under strictest bylaw discipline to fully protect our
associates' benefits and welfare."

    Although there is no official data on the total size of
the contingent workforce, Manpower defines it by considering
all types of workers who provide human resource to the
organization, but are not permanent staff, and estimates
that it represents approximately 20 percent of the average
company's total workforce. All of these groups, contingent
and permanent, provide the "people power" that
drive that success of the business entity. Manpower
believes that through Manpower Professional Permanent
Recruitment, Manpower Permanent Recruitment, Manpower
Temporary Staffing and Manpower Managed Service, they are
very capable of delivering competitive one-stop employment
service solutions to their clients in China.
 
    About Manpower in China

    Manpower Inc. first entered the Greater China market in
1964 and has more than 13 years experience in Mainland
China. Today, the company has 81 offices across Greater
China and 55 in Mainland China.

    Manpower China has nearly 400 recruiters operating
nationally in 11 cities across the Mainland. It provides a
wide array of services to both foreign-based multinationals
and local companies, including more than 80 percent of the
world's top 50 companies. Manpower China provides
professional and executive staffing under the Manpower
Professional brand, offering clients middle management to
C-suite executives in the Information Technology,
Telecommunications, Industrial, Consumer Goods,
Pharmaceutical, Services, Finance & Banking sectors. It
also provides a recruitment offering of both permanent and
contingent staff; HR and managed business services under
the Manpower brand.

    Manpower Inc. provides organizational consulting
services through its Right Management subsidiary, which
established offices in Mainland China in 1996.

    For more information on Manpower Inc. operations in
China, please visit http://www.manpower.com.cn and
http://www.right.com/cn .


    For more information, please contact£º

     Raymond Wang
     Tel:   [phone] x224
     Email: [e-mail]