Returning to in-person identity checks from 21 June is “a daft decision”, the House of Lords has been told following a government announcement last week that the move away from digital checks has been postponed but not cancelled.
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Two experts have put forward proposals they say are needed to regulate the umbrella company industry, in the wake of the government’s failure last week to unveil an Employment Bill in the Queen’s Speech.
Google regularly rolls out updated algorithms to ensure website owners are delivering a good user experience. Afterall, visitors want to find the information they seek quickly. In June, page experience comes under the gaze of the search engine giant. ‘Core Web Vitals’ is the latest addition to Google’s page ranking metrics.
The issue that has brought together the whole recruitment sector (possibly for the first time) was the Home Office’s announcement that the recently introduced virtual checks for all UK-based workers would be removed and replaced by the old system of in-person checks, writes Adrian Thomas
UK headhunter HW Global is launching a mid-market recruitment business using executive search techniques to attract sub-£100k candidates.
A company statement said HW People, which will operate alongside HW Global’s Executive Search division to source permanent and interim talent, will operate exclusively on a retained basis.
The government’s failure to put forward the long-promised Employment Bill in the Queen’s Speech yesterday (11 May, 2021) outlining coming legislation in the next year has prompted reactions of disappointment from trade bodies and think tanks.
The Home Office has called an 11th-hour delay to reimposing in-person ‘Right to Work’ identity checks, with the date moved from 17 May to 21 June.
Instead of booking more team social occasions online, recruitment bosses who help their staff to get away from their screens more often could be contributing to their improved mental health, health coach Michelle Flynn has advised a webinar audience.
A recruitment company that has been identified in a BBC Radio 4 File on 4 report about mini umbrella companies as having recruited at least one worker who was employed by a MUC has told Recruiter it “rejects any suggestion” that it engages in “illegal, fraudulent or exploitative behaviour”.
Nearly three in four job seekers applied for non-existent positions during the Covid-19 pandemic, and scams are still “extremely prevalent”, according to new information from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).