Jobcentre officials have refused to place an ‘ageist’ job advert for a junior stylist.
The Daily Mail reports that Michelle Hilling, owner of U Hairdressing in Gosforth in Newcastle, was prevented from placing the advert because the word ‘junior’ discriminated against older applicants.
Hilling eventually dropped the word ‘junior’ in favour of ‘apprentice’.
The Agency Workers Directive moves a stage closer today as the 40 day ’praying period’, which gave MPs an opportunity to amend or annul the statutory instruments came to an end.
Nick Hurley, a partner in the recruitment sector group at law firm Charles Russell, told Recruiter that any changes to the legislation would now require additional amending legislation.
Ed Percival, business coach
Multi-tasking may be something girls do better than boys. But that’s not how you get a lot done.
Recruitment processes take too long, according to research by online recruitment marketplace TalentPuzzle.
Parity Group’s revenues have declined but “performance has been resilient”, preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009 show.
· Group revenue from continuing operations was £119m (2008: £132.3m)
· Parity Resources recorded revenues of £100.5m (2008: £110.2M) and operating profit before exceptional items of £3m (2008: £3.7m)
How to lose friends and alienate people’ by Toby Young is a book about his misguided exploits in the fashion media industry. Whenever I see the title my mind always turns to one thing: retainers. There is an unhealthy obsession in the recruitment industry with retainers - in reality ’winning’ one may help you to have your own Toby Young moment.
More than three in 10 UK business are finding clients are taking longer to pay than a year ago, according to research from Bibby Financial Services.
The survey of 300 business owners and managers found that 20% of firms have chased invoices three times or more, while 48,000 businesses have had to follow up invoices more than 11 times.
The number of IT jobs within the financial sector has increased dramatically in the first two months of the year, according to the latest financial services IT hiring index from IT and finance recruiter McGregor Boyall.
Harvey Nash has announced a fall in profits for the first half of 2009.
After tax profits for the six months ended 31 July were down 54% at £1.8m compared with £3.9m in the first half of 2008.
Gross profits declined by 4.9% to £31.7m as revenue remained virtually unchanged at £200m.
IT recruiter InterQuest Group has appointed two senior executives to launch new businesses within the InterQuest Group.
Lisa Dixon joins InterQuest as managing director of new managed services business InterQuest Solutions. Dixon has over 10 years experience in the recruitment industry, most recently acting as head of recruitment operations at Cable & Wireless.