Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares
                                                
                                                                         
                                                      
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of                    Hays plc                   
existing shares to which voting rights are attached:                           
                                                                               
                                                                                                              
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                              Yes                           
                                                                                                               
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result     No    
in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights             
are attached                                                                   
                                                                               
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic          No    
effect to qualifying financial instruments                                     
                                                       
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                         No                        
                                                                               
Other (please specify):                                                  No                             
                                                                               
                                                                                             
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:            VIRTUS TRUST LIMITED                           
                                                        
                                                                     
4. Full name of shareholder(s)(if different from 3):         
                                                
5. Date of transaction (and date on which the threshold is               9 June 2011
crossed or reached if different):                                                                    
                                         
                                     
6. Date on which issuer notified:                                        9 June 2011                            
                                                           
                                                                               
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:                          More than 3%, 4%, 5%                  
                                                                                     
                                                                               
8. Notified details:                                                           
                                                                               
A: Voting rights attached to shares                                            
                                                                                             
Class/type                    Situation previous to    Resulting situation after the triggering   
of shares                     the triggering           transaction                                
                              transaction                                                       
If possible                                                                    
use ISIN                      Number of   Number of    Number     Number of voting         Percentage of     
code                          shares      voting       of         rights                   voting rights     
                                          rights       shares                                     
                                                                          
Ordinary shares of                                     Direct      Direct       Indirect   Direct     Indirect
GBP 0.01 each                                            
GB0004161021                  0           0            79,999,800  79,999,800   0          5.78%       0%


B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                             
                          
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                            
                                                                                
                                                                                 
Type of      Expiration Exercise/    No. of voting rights that may  Percentage  
financial    date       conversion   be acquired if the instrument  of voting   
instrument              period       exercised/                     rights      
                                     converted                                  
                                                                                
N/A                                                                             
                                                                                
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments  
                                                         
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                           
                                                                         
Type of       Exercise Expiration Exercise/   Number of voting     Percentage of
financial     price    date       conversion  rights instrument    voting rights
instrument                        period      refers to                       
                                                                   Nominal Delta
                                                                               
N/A                                                                            
                                                                               

Total (A+B+C)                                                                
                                                                          
Number of voting rights             Percentage of voting rights              
                                                                             
79,999,800                          5.78%                                    
                                                                             

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                     
                                                                               
Prior to the disposal, Ronald Edwin Frost ("Mr Frost") held 80,000,000 shares  
directly, in his own name.                                                 
                                                                               
Mr Frost has now given 100 shares to his wife, Beryl, and has settled          
79,999,800 shares into trust, the trustee of which is Virtus Trust Limited     
("Virtus").  Mr Frost has an interest in the 79,999,800 shares held in trust by
Virtus, which equates to an indirect interest of 5.78% of the voting rights of 
the issuer (based upon 1,384,238,307 total voting rights in the issuer, as     
announced on 31 May 2011 via RNS).      
                                       
Following the acquisition, Mr. Frost retains 100 shares in his own name, which    
equates to a direct interest of 0.000007%.                                     
            
Proxy Voting:                                                      
                                                                    
10. Name of proxy holder:                                              N/A
                                                                                      
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:           N/A
                                                                    
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:       N/A

13. Additional information:
                                                     
14 Contact name:                                                       Christopher Groves
                                                                       Withers LLP

15. Contact telephone name:                                            020 7597 6127