More than 5,000 construction jobs will be created due to plans to build over 2,000 new council houses, according to housing minister John Healey.
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IT recruiter Greythorn IT&T Recruitment, a division of FiveTen Group, has appointed Paul Winchester as its new managing director for its UK operation.
Flexible working was considered ‘very important’ by the 1,700 working mums surveyed in the annual survey by workingmums.co.uk, a job site for working mums.
Although significantly more women had been made redundant over the past year – up from 14% last year to 27% this year – over three quarters [79%] of the women surveyed said they needed flexible jobs.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed fines totalling £129.5m on 103 construction firms in England which it ruled had colluded with competitors on building contracts.??
The heaviest fine (£17.9m) was handed out to contractor Kier, while Interserve (£11.6m), Balfour Beatty (£5.2m), Carillion (£5.4m), John Sisk (£6.2m), Connaught (£5.6m) and Galliford Try (£8.3m) were also fined.
Retail giant Tesco has agreed a deal with Bond International Software to use its online recruitment and applicant tracking systems.
Bond Talent will be introduced at Tesco’s UK head office operations based in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, where 300 external hires and 400 internal moves are expected over the next year.
International staffing group Empresaria has appointed Joost Kreulen as head of Asia from 1 January.
Falling demand in the construction sector has hit manufacturers and the agencies which supply their staff.
The sale of construction products has reached a new low, according to the latest Construction Products Association Activity Barometer and recruiters are noticing a drop in factory placement numbers.
Employment services provider Parasol has acquired specialist accountancy practice Quay Accounting. Quay provides accounting services for freelancers.
Gordon Brown has pledged £500m to help people who have been unemployed for more than six months into jobs or work-based training as the government attempts to stem further increases in unemployment.
Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson in New York is seeing demand for retained search services, despite warnings from other executive search firms in the US.
In response to a CNN article last week, Mike Wellman, managing director of the Ray & Berndtson in New York, told Recruiter: