Finance companies to get female board quotas
Major employers in the UK’s financial sector could be forced to implement quotas for women on boards under plans being devised by regulators. The move is to satisfy a new EU directive, and will require that ‘large financial firms’ form a nomination committee to select the board of directors and ‘decide on a target for […]
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Do you like to catch your recruitment news on the move? If so, you’ll be pleased to hear that Recruitment Agency Now is launching a new, mobile-enabled site. Produced by web and app development company All the Top Bananas, the RA Now mobile site will enable easy access to our news stories and opinion pieces, […]
Read More →Hysteria over zero-hours workers heats up
You could probably count on one hand the number of times employment contracts have made headline news – but this week, zero-hours contracts were all over the news sites and the airwaves. The contracts, which allow employers to keep workers on stand-by without having to guarantee them a certain number of hours, are far more […]
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Read More →One million on zero-hours contracts, finds CIPD
A CIPD report has found that zero-hours contracts – where staff are kept on stand-by with no guarantee of work – are far more widespread than initially thought. The CIPD’s research suggests that there could be around a million zero-hours workers in the UK, far more than recent figures from the Office for National Statistics […]
Read More →Recruitment M&As at highest level in five years
Merger and acquisition activity in the recruitment sector reached its highest level in five years last year, according to data from research company Evalueserve and M&A International. The companies found that last year, 136 deals were completed in the sector globally, with a value of $2.4 billion, much of this driven by medium-sized companies looking […]
Read More →RACS Group named fastest growing company in its region
Umbrella company service provider RACS Group has been named the fastest growing company in the South West after a 377% increase in turnover in 2012. According to Insider Magazine’s annual Growth Top 100 listings, RACS is also the third fastest growing company across the five regions the list covers: the North West, Midlands, Wales and […]
Read More →Construction and engineering show strong growth in vacancies
The construction and engineering sector led the charge in an upswing in the professional jobs market, according to the latest vacancy data from professional recruiter body APSCo. APSCO’s data shows that the recent rise in GDP – last week showing 0.6% – is fuelling the beginnings of a real recovery in the professional jobs market. […]
Read More →Teachers, nurses and the chance to work with spies
Public sector recruitment hit the headlines this week, with concerns on the one hand that changes to teacher training might lead to a shortage of teachers by the end of next year, and positive news on the other that the NHS is embracing social media as part of its recruitment strategy. The former could be […]
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