Kelly Services has agreed to pay $11m (£6.3m) to settle a class action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay temporary workers their vacation pay.
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The University of Derby Student Employment Agency (SEA), which assists with finding students opportunities for temporary and part-time paid jobs while studying and during holidays, has enhanced its eploy recruitment software platform to help its burgeoning student placement process.
The number of firms going out of business is at its lowest in a year, according to the latest Insolvency Index from Experian.
The index shows that 0.09% of UK businesses failed during August this year, up on the 0.08% recorded in August 2008 but down on the 0.11% recorded in July.
Kenexa, a provider of global business solutions for HR, has appointed Jerry Collier as international RPO development director.
Insurance, investments and pensions group LV= has upgraded its online recruitment system to include an integrated candidate screening solution powered by NorthgateArinso PeopleChecking and linked to StepStone’s applicant tracking system.
A new service, available through Business Link, has been launched to help forge stronger relationships between small businesses and banks.
British small businesses and local partnerships can now bid for a share of £4m of funding for innovative projects to improve the health and welfare of their workers until March 2011.
Mark Dempsey, the former applicant tracking system manager for TMP, has joined graduates jobsite Milkround Online to lead its Online Applications ATS product.
As client services co-ordinator for online applications, Dempsey will work with Milkround’s in-house IT team to develop a new ATS for release next year with clients such as NHS, NHS Scotland, Allianz and Glencore.
New rules introduced today mean that lone parents with children aged 10 and over will start to get help to look for work rather than stay on benefits.
Assuming they are able to work they will move onto the lower paid Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) rather than Income Support, where they will have access to specialist advice and support on finding work.
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Retail recruiters have been given a boost after figures showed that high-street sales rose sharply at the beginning of October.