Employers could face a raft of age discrimination and constructive dismissal claims due to this week’s scrapping of the default retirement age (DRA), according to Thomas Bourne, employment lawyer at law firm Bond Pearce.
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Proposed changes to the rules on Employment Tribunals announced by the government yesterday will increase employer confidence to recruit, according to employment relations minister Ed Davey.
Executive search consultancy SpenglerFox Czech Republic and Slovakia has appointed Markéta Pfleger to head the office’s newly-developed division for human capital solutions (HCS).
Pfleger joins the SpenglerFox team from various HR manager positions at firms including Coca-Cola, Tchibo and KIT Digital, where she oversaw HR operations for both the Czech and other regional markets.
Rare Recruitment is the official recruitment partner of youth volunteering charity City Year.
Rare Recruitment specialises in placing ethnic minority students. City Year currently has 60 young people aged 18-25, acting as tutors, mentors and role models, who are volunteering full time in six primary schools across the London boroughs of Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets.
Employers are concerned with the basic numeracy and English of school and college leavers, according to the CBI/EDI annual Education & Skills survey 2011.
The survey shows 42% are not satisfied with the basic use of English and 35% with numeracy skills of school and college leavers.
Revisions to AWR guidance, announced today, underlines that the Swedish Derogation is not a “miracle solution”, according to Lewina Farrell, head of professional services at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation.
Charity Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) has launched a recruitment portal powered by MyPeopleBiz to manage its entire recruitment process.
The solution manages the charity’s recruitment from one location, aiming to greatly reducing the time spent on administration and improving the efficiency of the hiring process.
Telecoms recruiters that operate internationally are increasingly having to keep a tight reign on costs due to international payment terms, according to Scott Simons, director of global recruitment services Networkers International.
Recruitment businesses which use ‘EBTs’ (Employee Benefit Trusts) or ‘EFURBS” (Employer Funded Retirement Benefit Schemes) as ‘solutions’ to help their highly paid staff avoid income tax, or which engage contractors employing such schemes, may now find themselves in a very expensive hornets’ nest.
Recruitment giant Randstad has appointed Fred van Der Tang as CEO for Australia and New Zealand.
Meanwhile, former CEO Deb Loveridge has been appointed managing director Asia Pacific in a newly created role.
Van der Tang was previously managing director international accounts and is also a former managing director of Randstad UK.