Chief executives of FTSE 100 companies have seen their salaries increase by 7.4% in the last 12 months.
According to a research by Income Data Services, this is more than double the rise (3.4%) enjoyed by their staff.
The survey shows that bonuses for FTSE 100 chief executives fell by 29%. However, this still leaves the average bonus paid as £502,000.
Barbara Sutherland
Community pharmacy group Lloydspharmacy has extended its ‘refer a friend’ recruitment scheme among its 1,700 stores.
The Recruitment, Training and Conferencing Group (RTC Group) has formed a strategic partnership with the CTTS Group, which provides technical telecommunications training.
International technology recruiter specialist NetworkersMSB is to significantly increase its presence in Sub-Saharan Africa to take advantage of the current huge expansion in the region’s telecoms and power infrastructure.
The director of employment and remuneration at Disneyland Paris, Jean-Noël Thiollier, said he was pleased with the company’s recent
recruitment drives (28-31 October) in London and Birmingham for Christmas and next summer’s season (see recruiter.co.uk, 30 October).
Multi-sector recruiter Interaction Recruitment has gone live with a fully integrated back office solution Opera II Recruitment from Cambridge Recruitment Software Solutions (CamRSS).
One in five students has worked illegally in the past year unaware that employers could be operating illegally by offering unpaid work placements, according to a nationwide study of 1,892 students commissioned by student jobs provider www.studentgems.com.
After losing almost 280,000 workers because of the recession, the German temp market is recovering, though the number of temps has yet to reach its pre-recession levels.
Multi-sector recruiter Paramount Personnel has recruited Jeremy Hooper as a consultant to focus on hospitality in the South-West.
The former Royal Marines chef, along with his wife Jane, were the winners of Raymond Blanc’s BBC programme The Restaurant in 2007.
Digital camera phones should be banned from Christmas parties to avoid employees being fired due to photographic evidence emerging of party high jinks this year, according to employment lawyer Jonathan Whittaker.
The firm advises bosses to tell staff that snaps taken with a digital camera are fine, but not with mobile phones.