Croatian workers will not have the automatic freedom to work in The Netherlands for at least two years – and possibly as many as seven – from the 1 July date which sees the country join the European Union.
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has more than trebled its number of investigations into suspected IR35 abuses in the seven months since April 2012 compared to the whole of the previous year.
International IT services company Atos has opened applications for its apprenticeship schemes, while expansion in Dublin for web firm Yahoo! means it will need to hire 200 employees in the next 12 months.
Senior executives in Adecco and Hays, two of the UK’s most prominent staffing companies, have criticised the chancellor for failing to address the country’s skills agenda.
Members of the UK’s contractor community tell Recruiter that the chancellor could have done more to boost the sector.
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.
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.