Staffline Regulatory News (STAF)

6 November 2019

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline," the "Company" or the "Group")

Grant of Options under 2019 Share Scheme

Staffline, the recruitment and training organisation, announces the grant of options to employees as part of its Save As You Earn ("SAYE") share scheme for 2019. The scheme is open to all permanent employees who have completed at least six months continuous service, giving them the opportunity to participate in the future growth of the Group via share option arrangements.

Eligible employees were invited to subscribe for options over Staffline's ordinary shares of 10p each ("Ordinary Shares") with an exercise price of 76.664p, a 20% discount to the closing middle market price of 95.830p on the trading day before the invitation to participate was made. The options have a contract start date of 1 December 2019 and are exercisable between 1 December 2022 and 1 June 2023.

A total of 170 employees elected to participate, and, pursuant to these elections, a total of 1,336,094 options over Ordinary Shares were granted on 6 November 2019, equating to 1.94% of the current issued share capital of 68,930,486 shares. The vast majority of these shares are expected to be satisfied from the 1,140,400 Ordinary 10p Shares currently held by the Employee Benefit Trust, with the remainder required to be satisfied from the issue of new shares.

Options totalling 23,479 shares were granted to the following employee who is regarded as a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities ("PDMR"):

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About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

Enabling the Future of Work™

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions:

Recruitment Division

Staffline is the UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,600 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logistics and manufacturing. It operates from over c. 460 locations in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Poland. Its world leading Customer Experience platform provides optimised customer-based staffing management solutions whilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.

PeoplePlus Division

Staffline is the leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering apprenticeships, adult education, prison education and skills-based employability programmes across the country.

Skills and Training - market leading provider of Apprenticeships (both Levy and non-Levy), learning and development, adult education and health and well-being programmes to the Private and Public sector.

Justice and Community - largest independent provider of education and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.

Employability - market leading provider of programmes providing back-to-work education, skills support services to the unemployed and enterprise advice to individuals wanting to start their own business.

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