Freelance Professional Services (FPS) is to offer immigration, CRB services, tax returns and rebate assistance in addition to its UK umbrella company service under the new FPS Group brand.
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Retail and financial services will be the most important areas of activity in China in 2010, according to a Shanghai-based headhunter.
Technical recruiter NRL Group’s sales and profits rose last year.
Between January and December, NRL’s sales increased 3.3% to £74m, while gross profits rose by 4.7% over 2008’s figures.
Transport and logistics recruiter WSS Recruitment has opened for business.
The firm, set up by mother and daughter Margaret Coupland and Lorraine Turnbull, will provide staffing solutions primarily to blue chip companies in the industrial, transport, logistics and automotive sectors.
International provider of engineering and IT outsourcing solutions and professional staffing CDI has recorded heavy losses in its Q4 results for the year ended 31 December 2009.
CDI recorded a net loss of $6.9m (£4.4m) in Q4, a Q4 operating loss of $6.4m and a net loss of $19.9m.
Freelance fee rates have fallen by 8%, according to a report from online consultant network Skillfair.
The survey of 40,000 independent professionals shows that the average daily fee rate reported for 2009 was £523, an 8% decline on 2008.
With the recession officially over, it is only natural for the entrepreneurial, the curious, the impatient and the ambitious to lift their heads over the parapet and see what’s out there. However, it presents the employer with a challenge: when they leave, do you wish your staff luck and move on - or are you bitter over all the hard work and investment that you put in?
US President Barack Obama is to sign a jobs bill into law today, according to reports.
The bill exempts businesses that recruit unemployed people from the 6.2% Social Security payroll tax until December as well as providing employers with $1,000 credit if new workers stay on the job a full year. The US Social Security trust funds will be reimbursed for the lost revenue.
Regarding ’Ditch the first past the post culture’ (Recruiter, Soapbox, 17 February), I have come to this article and subsequent comments on your website rather belatedly but feel that this is a point well worth making: if a customer subscribes to the ’first come, first served’ model of recruitment, and is resistant to change, just don’t work with them!