A radical overhaul of UK pensions begins today. Over the next six years recruitment agencies will be required to auto-enrol both their own employees (if they aren’t already in a company scheme) and eligible agency workers.
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A year on from the introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), opinions are divided over the precise effects.
The fourth Future of Work (FoW) Research Consortium launched last Friday [28 September] in London.
As of today, the national minimum wage for adults aged over 20 years has risen by 11p to £6.19 an hour, but respective rates for 18-20-year-olds and 16-17-year-olds remain unchanged at £4.98 and £3.68 an hour respectively.
Depending on which is your City recruiter of choice, newly-available financial services jobs in London in September dropped 15% to 2,490 jobs or 19% to 2,205 on August, according to Astbury Marsden and Morgan McKinley respectively.
International insurer Hiscox is to open a new UK office in York in February 2013, creating 300 new jobs.
Rebecca Martin-Cortez has joined food services supplier Brakes as head of resourcing.
HR recruiter Harvey Nash HR has appointed Catrina Wilson as a senior consultant based in Birmingham.
Hays has signed up to a revised APSCo (Association of Professional Staffing Companies) code of conduct for RPOs and managed service providers, following talks between APSCo and Hays, as recruiter.co.uk reported last week.
The opportunity to earn a good salary based on sales commission has traditionally been seen a way of attracting talent into the recruitment industry. But could this be changing?