Remploy, the employment services organisation that will cease to be a non-department public in March next year, found work for 17,835 disabled and disadvantaged people in the year to 31 March.
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As the UK recovery begins to build, emerging skills shortages need to be addressed by the government, says Alistair Cox, chief executive officer at international professional and white-collar recruiter Hays.
Toy retailers Toys R Us will pay $35k (£26k) to a deaf jobseeker who was not provided an interpreter for her interview, and eventually was turned down for the job.
Executive search firm CTPartners is to recruit for various leadership roles at Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, which manages state-held assets worth $60bn (£37.6bn).
Glasgow-headquartered international engineering firm Weir Group is to increase its Malaysia-based workforce from 400 to over 1,000 as part of an investment of more than £70m in the country over the next three years.
A Cornish labour provider’s appeal against a Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) decision not to grant it a licence has been rejected.
The chief scientific adviser to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published a major analysis of the UK’s increasingly lean engineering talent pipeline, with the government also making £49m of skills funding available.
IT and services group Steria has been confirmed as the Cabinet Office’s joint venture partner creating Shared Services Connected Limited (SSCL), a provider of back office services to the public sector including HR and procurement.
The fourth supplier framework for government cloud computing and ICT system G-Cloud has been announced, and includes recruitment firms among a total of 981 suppliers.
Engineering and resources recruiter Orion Group has opened its first South American office in Rio de Janeiro.