Last week, the REC attended an Agency Work seminar run by the JSB, which provided up-to-date insights on how leading organisations are gearing up for the implementation of the Agency Workers Regulations.
A new report from APSCo suggests that temporary workers might be in for a hard time in the next few months.
The Times newspaper recently asked readers to rank the UK against five key competitors for tax, business friendliness, infrastructure, skills and workforce.
Freelancers, contractors and small business owners may want to make preparations so that they are not affected by public sector strikes.
Umbrella company contractors north of the border could be benefiting from increased private sector business activity.
After cutting 132,000 jobs in 2010, the public sector is now turning to freelancers to fill the gaps, according to a recent study by PeoplePerHour.com.
The latest Reed Job Index shows that UK job opportunities slipped back for the second consecutive month in May.
Umbrella company contractors may be interested to hear that although the UK government is attempting to clamp down on immigration, the numbers keep rising.
Umbrella contractors will be interested to learn that Maria Miller, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has said that flexible working should be thought of as a normal way of working.
Hays, the international recruiter, has said that 45% of those working in the public sector are either facing redundancy or looking for alternative employment.
Recent research conducted by HSBC has discovered that 29% of people in the UK think their job is not secure over the next year and 37% believe the same will be true over the next three years.
Umbrella company contractors may be interested to learn that public sector pay has risen at a faster rate than it has in the private sector.
Umbrella company contractors will no doubt be relieved to learn that confidence is improving amongst small business owners.
Figures released last Wednesday showed a 0.5% increase in GDP in the first quarter of 2011. This balanced out the drop of 0.5% in the final quarter of last year, which was blamed on the abnormal weather we saw in December.
Public sector financial crime is on the increase and, according to a new report from PwC, this is more likely to be an inside job than the work of an external criminal.
It would appear that people seeking executive jobs in the UK are not as confident that Britain is “open for business” as the Chancellor is.
