The head of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA), the public regulator of labour suppliers to horticulture, food processing and packaging, forestry and shellfish gathering industries, says he welcomes the government response to a formal consultation on the organisation’s scope and governance.
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The British Hospitality Association (BHA) is working with banking group Barclays to support the industry body’s goal of creating 60,000 new jobs in the sector by 2015.
The Royal Mail is kicking off its Christmas recruitment campaign to hire 21,100 people for seasonal roles across the UK - the same number of temporary hires as last year.
Professional recruiter Robert Walters has expanded its Manchester recruitment operation with the addition of a dedicated legal team.
Employment services provider Parasol yesterday launched a new contractor management tool for recruiters, which it says cost £100k to develop over a number of months.
A new job site has been launched by a former senior director at Hays, who tells recruiter.co.uk that its use of video reduces candidates’ ability to embellish their CVs.
The age of the smart watch looks certain to have implications for the world of recruitment – in time – as yesterday saw the highly-anticipated first move into the market from Samsung, with its Android-powered Gear device.
International staffing group Empresaria saw a global revenue decline of 2% in the first half of 2013, but adjusted operating profit rose as its Rest of the World (RoW) region was the strongest performer globally.
Engineering firm Dyson says it is looking to take on around 650 engineers of various level of seniority globally, although the firm’s founder has again expressed concern at the industry’s standing and long-time talent pipeline.
Like Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, there has been an outbreak of five-year plans in the recruitment sector this month, which hopefully will prove to be more successful than seven decades of the Soviet planned economy.