The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has issued a call to contract recruitment agencies, umbrella companies, and the clients they do business with to exercise caution when developing alternative worker policies.
New data collected by a recruitment financer has revealed that the most deleterious effects of the global economic downturn are still to come for small and medium sized businesses.
Financial recruiter Goodman Masson’s director Richard Hoar recently stated that the so-called banking “supertax” has not precipitated the mass exodus of financial services staff that industry experts had been fearing.
Within 5 years, unemployment levels will reach 10% in over half the regions in the UK predicts the CEBR.
The chief executive of Hays, Alistair Cox, has some worrying news for those in the public sector who work through umbrella companies and are worried about the loss of their contract.
The latest public body to come under fire for late payment of invoices is the police force.
The REC is holding a series of regional workshops around the country to help its members understand how the Agency Workers Regulations will impact their business.
The latest London Employment Monitor from Morgan McKinley shows a 7% month on month increase in new City jobs, and a 71% rise on July last year.
Recruitment agencies supplying staff to hospitals have hit back at the unions who claim that recruiters are charging outrageous fees.
The Scottish economy continued to improve in July, but this improvement did nothing to boost employment levels.
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has announced that the new ‘one in, one out’ system of regulations will come into effect as from the first of September this year, a move that has been welcomed by the FSB.
The current employment environment should be encouraging entrepreneurship among Britons according to the REC.
IT contractors could find themselves in demand by some of the largest companies in the UK.
IMS Executive Ltd recently conducted a survey of 2,000 public sector Interim Executives, including those from umbrella companies, to find out how willing they would be to reduce their daily rates.
A recent story in the press about the pay of an interim manager at the NHS Trust at Dorset County Hospital has caused the Interim Management Association to highlight the value of these highly skilled, expert flexible workers.
The coalition is considering scrapping the default retirement age as from October next year.
