Proposals aimed at helping more small businesses win government contracts should be prioritised in the forthcoming Budget, according to the Forum of Private Business (FPB).
As part of its submission to the 2009 Budget the FPB is urging the government to fast-track measures outlined in the Glover Review, published in November 2008.
Training body ConstructionSkills has warned that up to 2,000 apprentices are at risk of losing their job this year.
However, recruiters say public sector schemes will provide opportunities.
HR solutions provider McGinley Support Services has agreed a deal with tool and equipment hire company HSS Hire to allow customers to hire people alongside equipment through a single point of contact.
HSS Resource will provide customers with two distinctly separate agreements but one single point of contact for sourcing both equipment and source staff.
Multi-sector recruiter Astbury Marsden has appointed Stephanie McCoig to head up its permanent technology division.
McCoig is charged with building Astbury Marsden’s existing client relationships as well as continuing to grow and develop the technology division.
Jonathan Nicholson, managing director at Astbury Marsden, says: “We are delighted to have Stephanie on board.
Holidaymakers opting for the more traditional summer holiday over short breaks are hitting weekend break operators hard, according to recruiters.
The American Express Global Foreign Exchange Service Currency Index shows that this summer British holidaymakers are shunning European mini breaks in favour of a single, ‘premium’ annual holiday destination.
A gangmaster has been found guilty of using workers to gather shellfish without a licence after he was found using five migrant workers, none of whom had the required permit to gather cockles on the sands at Morecambe Bay.
Gareth Lloyd is the new product and digital development director at Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment.
More than 350,00 managers could lose their jobs over the next 12 months, according to a new survey.
The survey of management consultants with FTSE 100 companies, by the Management Consultancies Association, found that two-thirds of businesses “expected to make substantial lay-offs in the next 12 months.”
Rec-to-rec recruiters have missed out on fees because agencies are not licensed under the recently launched points-based immigration system. Tier two for skilled workers was launched on the 27 November and requires companies to have a sponsorship licence to employ immigrants from outside the EU.
Medical technology company Smith & Nephew has chosen vendor managed service provider Comensura to manage all its UK recruitment requirements. Smith & Nephew anticipates that Comensura will enable it to makedirect cost savings of between 6 and 8% of its total UK recruitment spend,thanks to greater efficiency.