Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares

Hays PLC
12 September 2000


Hays plc (the 'Company')

The Company has been notified that on 11 September 2000 the Hays Employee
Share Trustee (Jersey) Limited (the 'Trust') purchased 150,000 Ordinary shares
of 1p each in the Company at a price of 424.66p each. The following directors
of Hays plc are potential beneficiaries under the Hays Employee Share Trustee
(Jersey) Limited: R E Frost, J R Cole, K P Charlton, N A McLachlan, R J
Morgan, D C Tibble, X F E Urbain, D R Waxman and G J Williams.


S J Charnock
Group Secretary

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