Recruitment giant Adecco is to become an Official Sponsor of tennis player Kim Clijsters.
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Executive search firms GRS Group and Kinsey Allen Consulting (KA) are to merge.
Following the closure of the consultation period on how the EU Agency Workers Directive can best be implemented in the UK, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) issued its key demands for a workable implementation of the regulations.
The directive would give temporary workers the same benefits as permanent staff after 12 weeks.
The demands include:
Redundancies are eroding the morale of Britain’s workers, according to a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The survey shows that four out of five workers recommend that senior managers could restore trust by foster ‘more honest’ communications as well as affording workers a bigger say on workplace issues.
Rec-to-rec consultancy Oliver George Consulting has opened for business.
Set up by Paul Sherlock and Max Peters formerly of PTP Consulting , the pair have 15 years’ combined experience in recruitment and will operate from their Bristol base.
Financial services and investment banking recruiter Core-Asset Consulting has appointed Victoria MacKenzie to manage its business support division recruiting for office administration and HR positions.
MacKenzie was previously at Michael Page.
Financial recruiter Goodman Masson has appointed Chris Porges from WH Marks Sattin as director of Goodman Masson’s temporary and contracts business.
Guy Hayward, chief executive at Goodman Masson, says: “Our success this year has been about the performance of our people and the strength of our leadership team.
The Monster Employment Index UK dipped by one point as online job availability remained largely unchanged for a fifth month in a row in August.
Demand in the marketing/PR/media sector increased, while East Anglia recorded the highest rise in demand of all UK regions and hiring declined furthest in Wales.
The judge has begun summing up in the trial of a man accused of murdering the head of a recruitment agency in New Inn, Pontypool.
The BBC reports that the judge will sum up the psychiatric evidence on Thursday morning, before sending out the the jury of six men and six women to consider their verdicts.
Scottish recruiter Eden Scott has appointed Mark Durham and James Milne as directors.
Durham, a divisional manager with Eden Scott since 2006, oversees the public sector and IT divisions, while Milne joins as director of the firm’s Aberdeen business having worked within the UK and international oil & gas markets.