From a dressing-down to dress-down directors
Last weekend, one Labour MP’s comments about migrant workers in a leaked speech made headlines across the board. According to a draft of a speech to be given by shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant, major employers such as Tesco and Next were “unscrupulous” for undercutting British workers and drafting in foreign staff at a cheaper […]
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Read More →Labour MP in migrant worker row
Shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant this week became embroiled in a row over recruiting migrant workers. In a speech leaked to newspapers, the Labour MP claimed that “unscrupulous employers” exploited migrant labourers while undercutting the local labour market, citing Tesco and Next as examples. Bryant later edited his speech to remove some of the critical […]
Read More →Recruiters rank highly in survey of importance
Recruiters have been ranked third in a list of professions that finance professionals consider important – with respondents claiming they are more loyal to individual consultants than agencies. According to the survey of mid-to-senior finance workers, by Communicate, four-fifths considered their relationship with recruiters either important or very important, placing them third – behind their […]
Read More →Seasonal dip in London employment opportunities
There was a slight fall in employment opportunities in London during July, according to Morgan McKinley’s London Employment Monitor. Compared to the same time last year, there was a 37% drop in new roles coming onto the market, although the number of professionals actively seeking new jobs increased by 63% over the same period. In […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →Read RA Now on the move!
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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How the role of the corporate recruiter is evolving. http://www.ere.net/2013/08/01/how-the-role-of-corporate-recruiter-is-evolving/
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 […]
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