The National Minimum Wage for adults will increase by 15p to £6.08 an hour from 1 October, the government announced on Thursday.
The government accepted the recommendations of the independent Low Pay Commission (LPC) for increases to the minimum wage rates, which will also see:
In light of recent government announcements, do you think employers would be more inclined to recruit long-term unemployed if they had undertaken work for their benefits?
Salaries and fee income for UK recruiters working in contingency recruitment have gone up over the past year by as much as 10-28%, according to the Annual Recruitment, Executive Search & Interim Management Salary Survey 2011 by Heywood Staffing Solutions.
Stuart Britton, previously managing director of RDL Corporation’s main subsidiary SEC Recruitment, has completed a management buyout of RDL with fellow director Nigel Gardner.
What contingency plans have you made to cope with the unprecedented number of Bank Holidays taking place in consecutive weeks?
Kean Marden
Recruiters should regard the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) pay comparator as ’their friend’, according to an employment lawyer. Alison Treliving, a partner in the human capital practice at Squire, Sanders, Hammonds, told the recent Recruitment & Employment Confederation AWR National Summit that recruiters should use the pay comparator as a defence against potential legal claims.
Inspectors have uncovered instances of failing to pay workers, and other non-compliances, following a targeted enforcement operation focused on the construction sector throughout October.
A Dungannon-based gangmaster was convicted on a charge of section 12(1) of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 of operating without a licence.
Last Tuesday (23 November) Tracy Gallagher of Gallagher Meat Contractors based in Dungannon but whose business address is Gortin Road, Omagh, pleaded guilty to the charge and was consequently fined £750 and ordered to pay costs.
