Jobcentre officials have refused to place an ’ageist’ job advert for a junior stylist.
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City job vacancies have risen to their highest number recorded this year, according to the latest Morgan McKinley employment monitor in October.
The monitor shows that the number of new financial services job vacancies in London rose by 15% compared to September, while October also saw the smallest year-on-year percentage decrease in new job numbers for 16 months.
The Institute of Measurement & Control (InstMC), for professionals in the instrument and control engineering market, has appointed technical and engineering recruiter NES as an authorised recruitment agency.
The deal ensures that the InstMC will direct recruitment enquiries from organisations and workers within the industry to NES.
Half of British workers surveyed by online courier matchmaking service www.Boxby.co.uk have exploited the recent cold snap to skive off work. The survey of 1,029 people found that 49% of respondents used the snow as an excuse to have time off, citing issues such as problems with transport when they could in fact have made it in to work.
Since the beginning of the year, a number of recruiters have been awarded places on the Buying Solutions framework agreement to provide recruitment services to the NHS.
Online recruitment marketplace gatszu.com has now launched.
The site, in partnership with The Sunday Times HR Business Network, is an online platform that connects UK-based employers seeking new talent with a nationwide network of approved, independent recruitment agencies.
Agency Workers Regulations, which implement the Agency Workers Directive, have now been published. The first public view of the regulations have now been uploaded to the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website. The Regulations confirm that implementation will not begin until after 1 October 2011.
The impetus for any changes to the Agency Workers Regulations would have to come from industry, said Conservative MP Jonathan Djanogly.
Accountants with strong commercial skills are in short supply on London’s Olympics project, according to Jean Tomlin, director of HR, London 2012.