As a 48-hour postal strike gets underway, Manpower has told Recruiter that it remains committed to carrying out and providing checks on the temporary workers it supplies to the Royal Mail.
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Motor insurance firm Kwik Fit Insurance has begun a major recruitment drive to take the headcount at its Uddingston headquarters to more than 1,000 by the turn of the year.
Kwik Fit Insurance plans to recruit a further 84 posts between now and January 2010 and is inviting local jobseekers to attend its recruitment open day on 31 October.
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority has announced that there will be no increase in licence fees for the year to 31 March 2011.
For the current 1,185 licence holders they will only need to pay the renewal fee, and for those with a turnover of less than £1m this will only cost £400.
Accountancy firm Baker Tilly has offered some handy hints on posting a tax return, with the deadline approaching fast.
The deadline for paper returns this year is 2 November because 31 October falls on a Saturday but HMRC treat a return received in office hours on the first working day after the deadline as being received on time.
Disneyland Paris is on the hunt for UK staff for Christmas and next year’s summer seasons with recruitment drives in London and Birmingham.
Eleven recruitment agencies have received warnings from the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) inspectorate after advertising for asbestos removal workers without having the proper Health and Safety Executive (HSE) licences.
The UK construction sector continued to contract for a second month in row in October, according to the latest CIPS-Markit survey.
The index posted a reading of 46.2 in October, indicating a further fall in UK construction sector activity, and at a faster pace than that in September.
Motor company General Motors has confirmed that it is to shed 10,000 workers across its European car unit Opel, which includes Vauxhall in the UK.
The BBC reports that the announcement comes a day after GM said it was cancelling its deal to sell Opel to Canadian car parts firm Magna.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has written to 60 MPs, who are calling for early implementation of the Agency Workers Directive.
The 60 Labour MPs (listed below) signed an Early Day Motion in parliament calling for the government to “commence the measures before the end of this parliament”.
Despite buoyant retail sales figures, retail recruitment will remain lean and mean, according to Maureen Hinton, lead retail analyst at Verdict Research.
Latest figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and accountant KPMG show that British retailers saw their best October for sales since 2002, while like-for-like growth was 3.8%, compared with the same period in 2008.