Keeping up with the administration work for the sheer volume of transient workers who join and leave a business in a year’s time poses the greatest challenge for employers of temporary and contract labour in getting to grips with new pensions auto-enrolment legislation, predicts Derek Kelly, managing director of the Parasol umbrella company.
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Byron Mears, a former HR head leader at the BBC, is claiming at an employment tribunal that he was bullied to the point of an illness that made him quit his job, after he stood up for a female member of staff who had asked to work part-time following a return to work from maternity leave.
UK recruitment and outsourcing firm Staffline delivered substantial growth in 2012, promising more to come in 2013, while global recruitment group Hudson was in the red, with its chief executive officer calling 2012 “difficult to navigate by any measure”.
Not-for-profit organisation the City Hindus Network (CHN) is looking to explore how perceptions of the glass ceiling differ among, and have an effect upon, professionals from ethnic minorities, a recruiter leading research into the matter tells Recruiter.
The mechanisms for evaluating US labour market needs and admitting workers are “broken or non-existent”, and there is the need for significant overhaul of the way lesser-skilled visa are issued, according to a joint statement from the US Chamber of Commerce and federation of trade unions – the AFL-CIO.
The introduction of auto-enrolment of pensions in the UK will make it more expensive to hire staff, according to top 20 accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young.
The managing director of welfare-to-work provider Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) has hit back at criticisms by MPs that the government’s Work Programme is failing.
This month sees the launch of Asempleo, a new trade body for the recruitment and staffing industries in Spain, including Manpower – the first time the staffing group has been part of such an organisation in that territory, according to the new body.
The reaction from consumers and businesses to the financial stimulus initiatives introduced by government has been under whelming so far. Yet, as we approach the end of the first quarter, there are grounds for believing there will be more finance available in 2013 than in recent years.
Giving evidence can be a dreadful experience. And the realities of professional life within the recruitment and staffing sector means that you, or one of your employees, will likely do so at an employment tribunal at some stage over the course of your career.