Car production in the UK is up 28.6% in June compared with June 2009, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
This was up 55% over the year-to-date. Commercial vehicle output also rose by 24.9% compared to June 2009, and is 49.6% up in the first six months of the year.
The government’s intention to scrap an informal code guaranteeing public sector benefits for thousands of workers outsourced to the private sector will open up the market to medium and small-sized outsourcing companies.
Legal recruiter BCL Legal has appointed Chika Okeke as trainee consultant.
BCL Legal has offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Reading. Okeke will be based in the firm’s Manchester office.
There has been a loss of full-time jobs and shift to part-time working since the start of the recession, according to ‘Working Hours in the Recession’, published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Engineering, science, technology and professional recruiter Matchtech Group says it has seen some “signs of a gradual recovery” as net fee incomes have risen in a trading update for the year ended 31 July 2010.
The update reveals:
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Global executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Keith Meyer as vice chairman and head of global CEO and board practice.
Multi-sector recruitment service Recruitment Genius has appointed Steve Huxham as a non-executive director.
Huxham is also chairman of the Recruitment Society, a director at the Institute of Association Management and chairman of social work and voluntary sector recruitment specialist Amicus Recruit.
Potential bans on the use of BlackBerrys in India and in the Middle East is set to hit the world of recruitment hard, robbing both in-house and agency recruiters of a key communications tool.
Financial services recruiter LMA Recruitment has appointed Rob Clark as senior consultant in its HR team.
Social care recruiter Cardea has appointed Tony Woollett as head of operations.
Woollett was previously an associate director of Beresford Blake Thomas (BBT) and national sales manager for Reliance – both Randstad companies.
Meanwhile, the firm also welcomes consultants Leon Morley, Beth Morley, Laura Hart.