The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is calling for more immediate action on extending the right to request flexible working to all employees.
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Staffing companies that help PAYE temps and umbrella workers operate through personal service companies (PSCs) could seriously reduce the value of the company, according to a specialist recruitment sector lawyer.
Australian recruitment agency, Andersen Partnership, is looking for private equity investment to fund a worldwide expansion that could see it employing up to 700 recruiters.
The recruitment sector is seeing slow but steady growth in M&A activity, according to Tim Evans, managing director at Boxington Group.
Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment (TMDR) has appointed Dan Richards as sales director.
Richards will be responsible for overseeing the commercial development of the UK’s largest portfolio of specialist job sites, including GAAPweb, totallylegal, SecsintheCity and more recently Fish4jobs.
Adele Carr Financial Recruitment has appointed Clare Flavell and Seodhna McGill as consultants.
Neither consultant is a stranger to fame. Flavell made the final 100 singers on the first series of Simon Cowell’s hit TV show Pop Idol, while McGill is an Irish dancer and has danced for Irish President Mary McAleese.
If intra-company transfers (ICTs) are not included in the immigration cap, the government will fail in its promise to cut immigration from 196,000 to the tens of thousands by 2015, according to Ann Swain, chief executive of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo).
Home secretary Theresa May is due to unveil details of the immigration cap later today.
Global executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Alex Bennett as principal in its life sciences & healthcare practice.
Bennett joins from executive search firm Ruston Poole International and will work with clients across medical devices, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and healthcare sectors.
He will be based in CTPartners’ London office.
Smart Solutions Recruitment has appointed Paul Gorin as commercial director.
Gorin is founder of Cardiff-based Marble Recruitment in 2004 and was managing director of the firm before its acquisition by Time4Recruitment.
Executive search firm Kinsey Allen International has taken on Kate Sumner-Brown as a consultant in the firm’s legal practice.
Sumner-Brown will focus on mid- to senior-level placements in alternative investments, specialising in private equity and hedge fund formation, and M&A transactional work.
She reports into managing director of the legal practice, Fiona Gibb.