Contractor Umbrella has announced it is to adopt the Swedish Derogation Model to meet the requirements of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR).
The ’Swedish Derogation’ essentially means the agency employs temporary workers and pays them between assignments.
Contractor Umbrella has promised the following:
Telecoms and defence staffing specialist Everyone Everywhere has appointed Stephanie Lee as resourcer.
Lee has more than five years’ experience in recruitment resourcing.
Everyone Everywhere launched earlier this month.
Recruitment software provider Dillistone Systems has entered into a new contract with executive search firm Asap.
Dilistone expects to implement its FileFinder software system later this year, incorporating Asap’s seven offices throughout Brazil. The deal includes the purchase of around 100 FileFinder software licences, various services and a support contract.
Job board DiversityJobs.co.uk has appointed Ben Chalcraft to head its advertising agency channel.
Morgan Lobb, director of DiversityJobs.co.uk, says:“We are delighted to be able to welcome Ben into the Diversity Jobs fold. Ben is well known and well respected within the industry, and we expect him to be a real asset to the business.”
Accountancy recruiter Balance Recruitment has appointed Alison Humphries as non-executive director.
Humphries has worked as a director of several large recruitment agencies and established her own consultancy in 2002.
Apprenticeship programmes need to be “age neutral” to ensure all employees are able to develop regardless of their age, according to Joanne Ratcliffe, head of people at George at Asda.
Luke Johnson
The EU is “one of the largest job destruction machines ever created”, according to serial entrepreneur and non-executive director of InterQuest Group, Luke Johnson.
I was pleased to hear that the government is willing to re-examine its plans for an immigration cap. There is no doubt that businesses need to be able to bring in the specific skills and expertise that they need to drive growth, regardless of geography or nationality, if the UK’s economic recovery is to continue.
Gala Coral Group has implemented StepStone Solutions Talent Acquisition application.
The software will handle the 300 applications the gaming company receives each day for the job vacancies advertised across its three main divisions in the UK.
Gala Coral is also using StepStone Solutions Talent Acquisition to stream vacancies directly through its Facebook and Twitter pages.
More than eight in 10 workers want to keep developing throughout their careers, according to the latest Randstad quarterly work monitor survey.
However, the survey also reveals that only 55% feel that their firm is doing enough to help them keep developing, while 60% of workers would switch jobs if a new employer could help them to develop faster or better.