The government has announced new national minimum wage rates which will come into effect in October.
Workers aged 22 and over will see an increase from £5.73 to £5.80 an hour, while wages for 18 to 21-year-olds will also rise from £4.77 to £4.83 and for 16 and 17-year-olds, the rate increases to £3.57 an hour from £3.53.
The Bakers at last year’s Recruiter awards
Bill Boorman
The London 2012 Olympics will provide opportunities for all staffing agencies, recruiters have claimed.
Tom Hadley, director of external relations at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, recently called for contractors onsite to work with recruitment agencies to engage London’s local population in to fill jobs.
The list of preferred bidders for the first round of Flexible New Deal contracts to provide welfare-to-work services.
Engineering recruiter Gravity Personnel has acquired multi-sector recruiter Forest Personnel.
Local Reading newspaper Get Reading reports that Gravity Personnel director has taken over the running of Forest Personnel following the retirement of owner Jean Charmak.
Capita has acquired the European loan administration, asset management administration and commercial mortgage backed securities administration services of Capmark Financial Group for a cash consideration of approximately £10m on a cash-free, debt-free basis.
Eighteen agencies supplying drivers to businesses in the West Midlands have been warned that they are failing to comply with the law and could face prosecution if they don’t change their ways, according to a government statement. Further action is being considered “in a number of cases”, the statement said.
The offences included:
Recruitment software provider Bullhorn has launched in the UK today (15 June) by securing a contract with technical resourcing specialist Talascend, which employs 1,100 staff worldwide.
A recruitment firm has asked hundreds of pupils from a secondary school near Aberdeen to paint their self-portrait which expresses how they see themselves in the future.
Aberdeen-based Thorpe Molloy Recruitment, a multi-sector recruiter, is asking the pupils of Alford Academy to paint their portraits, with up to 50 pieces to be displayed in the company’s office.