Union leaders representing steel workers have met to discuss the continuing downturn in the industry.
The meeting follows UK’s biggest steel provider Corus cutting 400 jobs last month.
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Spanish bank Santander has announced that it will cut 1,900 jobs across its three UK businesses - Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.
The bank said that the cuts will occur in 2009 to reduce costs and have not ruled out compulsory redundancies.
Recruitment and talent management software specialist Bond International Software has settled out of court after a salesperson was accused of misrepresenting a competitor’s product.
The case was brought by First Choice Software on the basis of allegations that the Bond employee had made false claims about the performance of a First Choice product.
Recruiters should lobby the government to reverse a decision taken in November 2008 to remove midwives from the shortage list of occupationsunder current immigration rules. Richard MacMillan, chief executive of health recruiter Pulse, told Recruiter that the decision was “questionable” given a shortage of midwives, which the Darzi Review of the NHS estimated at 4,288.
The economic downturn is boosting the UK holiday market, according to travel recruiters.
Spring Group has announced increased profits for 2008.
Profits before tax, interest, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose by 15% to £9.2m for the year ending 31 December 2008, compared with £8m for 2007.
Revenues were up 19.3% to £516.5m (2007: £432.8m). Operating profit increased 8.5% to £6.4m (2007: £5.9m).
HR is making a positive contribution to business but needs to do more to raise its profile, according to HR recruiters.
A recent survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) shows that some new entrants to HR do not think the function commands enough power or repsect compared with other departments.
Hays signs partnership agreement with Institute of Credit Management (ICM).
The agreement will give ICM members access to Hays’ complete range of temporary and permanent jobs services, including access to Hays database for non credit jobs.
Technical recruiter NRL has expanded its rail division, opening a new operation at its Wigan office.
The company has hired Ian Thomas, who has experience working on a variety of rail projects, including permanent way, technical and signalling, to launch the new division.