Multi-sector recruiter The SR Group has appointed Andrew Harris as head of commercial management.
Harris focuses on ensuring clients get the most out of their relationships with the group’s brands, including liaising on preferred supplier agreements, pitches and service level agreements.
The government is to consider reforming collective redundancy consultation periods, the Transfer Undertakings Protection of Employment Regulations (TUPE) and compensation for discrimination awarded by employment tribunals.
The point based system used to manage UK immigration has a good deal of “room for improvement”, according to Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts.
Yesterday, the Committee published a report which examines the management of work routes of the Points Based System for Immigration from evidence supplied by the Home Office and the UK Border Agency.
Shell has appointed Randstad Managed Services (RMS) as its talent recruitment partner in a programme to attract self-employed retailers across the UK.
Britain’s franchise industry will create around 250,000 new jobs within the next 18 months, according to franchise development company Franchise Development Services (FDS).
FDS says an increasing number of individuals are seeking to become their own bosses by becoming franchise owners.
Employers should be wary of retaining any more than 15% of their workforce in their jobs for more than five years, a workforce analytics expert has warned an audience of HR professionals.
Nicola Longland has been promoted to client services director at Ochre House, and joins its leadership team.
Longland joined Ochre House in 2009 as delivery manager for Telefónica UK, before being promoted to client services manager.
Multi-sector recruiter Jobwise has promoted Julie Edmondson to regional manager for Manchester and Oldham.
Edmondson was previously business manager at Jobwise and most recently had been managing the Oldham branch. The new post of regional manager is part of the new career development structure recently implemented by Jobwise.
Global professional and managerial recruiter Antal International has opened a new office in Wroclaw, Poland.
The office is the firm’s second in the country, following the opening of its Warsaw office.
Employers will prefer “deep” skills over generalist skills, according to the London Business School’s Professor Lynda Gratton.
At yesterday’s launch of Phase 2 of The Future of Work, Gratton predicted many changes in the type of skills that will be needed by 2020.