A quarter of people are struggling into work, despite feeling ill, according to a survey from business psychology company Robertson Cooper.
The survey of 39,000 UK workers found that half reported good health, while the rest described their health as ‘alright’ or ‘poor’.
Senior executives are enduring pay freezes with typically only finance directors enjoying a pay rise this year, according to Watson Wyatt’s 2009 Executive Reward Survey.
Jobs board reed.co.uk is offering recruiters up to a million free job postings to mark the ninth anniversary of its Freecruitment service. Around 6,000 of reed.co.uk’s longest serving agency clients were re-credited on Monday 16 November, while other agencies will receive their free allowance next year.
First People Solutions Group has won a £6m care at home services contract with Midlothian Council. Maureen O’Neill, FPSG’s director of public sector, explained to Recruiter that the firm’s First People Care Solution, the health and social care brand, has worked closely with Midlothian Council as one of their domiciliary care at home service providers for the last three years.
Pay has been frozen for two thirds of workers, while one in 10 have lost their jobs in the Gulf region, according to new data from online recruitment firm GulfTalent.com.
Average salary increases across the six Gulf countries over the year to August 2009 fell to 6.2% compared with 11.4% over the same period in 2008.
Paul Whitehouse
Innovate CV, a global interactive CV platform, has launched today [1 March 2010].
Employing ex-agency recruiters can bring in-house benefits
Industrial recruiter Innov8 Recruitment has strengthened its team and moved to new offices.
Ex-army officer Aaron Croke, who saw action in both Iraq and Afghanistan, has joined as a consultant and will supply temporary workers, while Katie Mullen, will takes over our payroll and finance functions.
Innov8’s new office is in Luton town centre.
