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Read More →Is the voluntary approach to boardroom gender diversity working?
Two reports into the presence of women in UK boardrooms have been published this week. Lord Davies’ annual update into the progress of gender diversity on company boards on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills found that women now account for just over 20% of board positions in the FTSE 100. That […]
Read More →Innovative ways of interviewing candidates
Some companies, including Google, are putting a twist on the traditional job interview. Vern Roberts explains We are all used to the usual interview questions about our experience, education and hobbies. The standard interview is generally packed full of questions every applicant should know, maybe with the one or two surprises in there. It’s nice […]
Read More →Multi-generational workplace will lead to positive tension and innovation, survey finds
A workplace in which four generations will work side by side for the first time in history will result in greater innovation, research has suggested. One third of nearly 3,000 employees surveyed by the CIPD said they saw no challenges whatsoever in working with colleagues from different generations, but rather greater opportunities to share knowledge. […]
Read More →HMRC investigations into IR35 ‘quadrupled’ in past year
Four times as many investigations into people suspected of abusing the IR35 rules on tax and national insurance for contractors were conducted by HMRC this year, compared last year, it has emerged. There were 256 cases in 2012/13, compared to just 59 investigations into IR35 in the previous year, according to tax and accounting publisher […]
Read More →Self-employed set to ‘outstrip’ public sector workers by 2018, RSA says
The number of people who work for themselves has increased by 13% since 2008, and based on current rates of growth will overtake the total number of UK public sector workers, a report is expected to conclude. But the government needs to re-examine whether its support for small businesses – particularly tax and welfare policies […]
Read More →HMRC could face legal challenges to forthcoming false self-employment legislation
Recruitment agencies could be forced to resort to legal challenges to the proposed false self-employment legislation in order to deal with potentially unquantifiable and uninsurable risk, ASPCo says. The industry body has written to HRMC warning that it could face challenges under the Human Rights Act and relevant European Union law. The trade body is […]
Read More →Part-time work should not mean low pay or low ambition
Back in January, a speech by UKIP leader Nigel Farage to an audience in the City of London made headlines when he claimed that women are paid less and worth less to the financial sector because they make a “lifestyle choice” to have a baby. If female City high-fliers decided not to take any time […]
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What’s the difference between a reason or an excuse for not showing up to an interview? The new blog from #TheWritte…http://lnkd.in/bmK9y8x
Read More →Support for small business outlined in Budget
The recruitment sector has broadly welcomed some of the measures to support small business and cut business tax announced in the Budget. The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced to Parliament that alongside developing new degree-level apprenticeships, the government is to extend the grants for smaller businesses to support more than 100,000 extra apprenticeships. George Osborne […]
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