There has been a warm welcome from business groups and the staffing sector for the chancellor’s announcement of a cut in the National Insurance Contributions (NICs) paid by employers of up to £2,000 a year.
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The chancellor needs to get on with implementing plans for its state-backed Business Bank to allow staffing companies to grow, says Peter Lowman, managing director of LoveWorkLife, a specialist consultancy that advises recruitment companies.
The writing is on the wall for offshore employment intermediaries based outside the UK who fail to pay the correct employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NICs), following yesterday’s Budget, according to the director of global tax services at Ernst & Young.
After a blistering start to 2013, equity markets have flat-lined over the past two weeks with the FTSE100 index up a measly 0.1%. Within the UK recruitment sector, the vast majority of shares have tracked the broader index and drifted sideways. Instead, the main price action of note this month has been among the second liners.
Kellan Group has entered into an arrangement agreed to borrow £600k from its largest shareholder.
Insurance firm LV= says its new smartphone-optimised careers site acknowledges not just practical concerns such as screen size and bandwidth, but also the issues of user attention span and time restrictions.
Talent management firm a&dc has provided an online pre-assessment process used in the first stage of a new recruitment drive for constables at the Avon & Somerset Constabulary.
Publishing organisation The Claverley Group has appointed online recruitment solutions firm Hotlizard as the provider of job boards for its various newspaper websites.
Recruitment software supplier Intersoftware Recruitment Solutions has signed an agreement to become software solutions service partner to the Association of Labour Providers (ALP).
Health and social care compliance provider Compli With Us has merged with healthcare training firm Emergency Training (EMT).