Risk management, compliance and audit recruitment firm JCW has taken on six new members of staff.
Kerrie McCabe and David Heath join the company’s compliance desk, Danielle Watson and Rebecca Kent enter the risk management department and Tom Harvey and Vanessa Ayoola arrive in the company’s audit division.
Only 0.12% of employment tribunals in 2010-11 involved employees alleging that their company had failed to observe flexible working regulations, according to figures obtained by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
This week’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) conference and exhibition calls for HR teams to become “more business savvy” and to have a deep understanding of their company and situation.
As reported yesterday on recruiter.co.uk, the 2011 conference kicked off with chair Gill Rider calling on HR professionals to become business leaders.
Just less than 50% of British adults responding to a YouGov poll want to work more flexibly, with only 17% specifically saying they would reject the possibility.
A third of respondents said that greater flexibility would make, or already has made, them more productive, and 43% think flexible working has made them, or could make them, less stressed.
Global executive search firm Boyden has appointed Neil McKay as partner in the firm’s London office.
McKay will play a key role in developing Boyden’s UK and European financial services practice, with particular emphasis in corporate and investment banking.
Technical recruiter MBN Recruitment Solutions has appointed Joshua Smith and Haddon McPherson.
Both come into the roles of trainee recruitment consultants and will be based in the company’s Glasgow HQ.
Finance, accountancy and HR recruiter Wade Macdonald has appointed Mark Norrish as business director.
Norrish has 10 years’ experience of recruitment consultancy and management.
The vast majority (86%) of workers across the globe would not engage in unethical behaviour to advance their careers, slightly above the UK figure of 83%, according to a survey conducted by jobs board Monster.
Yesterday’s sickness absence review, conducted by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), has been welcomed by charities and the Legal & General Group.
The board of recruiter Harvey Nash announces today an interim management statement confirming revenue up 21% for the quarter ending 31 October compared to the same period in 2011.
Profit before tax is also up on the previous year’s figure, by 17%.