More FTSE 250 firms have frozen salaries than their FTSE 100 counterparts, according to a new report from executive remuneration specialist Hewitt New Bridge Street.
The report shows that 80% of FTSE 250 firms imposed an executive salary freeze compared with 60% of FTSE companies.
CPL Resources remains profitable, despite challenging market conditions, the Irish recruiter’s chairman John Hennessey told its AGM yesterday.
Luxury beach resort Sandals is recruiting for a job of a lifetime – the chance to become an Apprentice Sandman.
Employed by Sandals, the Sandman is an expert in all things… sand – fitting when you consider Sandals’ beach resorts around the world. The job will entail scouring the Caribbean in search of perfect beach locations to build the next Sandals Resort.
An Office of Fair Trading (OFT) probe into corporate insolvencies must address the problem of ‘phoenix’ companies leaving small businesses unpaid after becoming insolvent, according to the Forum of Private Business (FPB).
The fourth series of a web-based comedy featuring a fictitious recruitment agency began last week.
The Temp Life, the story of the inept boss of US temp agency Commodity Staffing and its disgruntled workers, has been seen by 2m viewers since it began in 2006. The new series can be seen on Facebook, YouTube and is due to be rolled out across many more web media.
Almost half (47%) of UK employees say that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important consideration when seeking a new employer, according to a study from Badenoch & Clark.
The report also shows that most workers 83% think their employer is not genuinely committed to CSR, while 11% claim their employer totally ignores it and 28% see it largely as box ticking.
The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) has recovered more than twice the amount of pay for workers in 2008/09 (£63,341) than it did in the previous year (£26,000), according to the latest Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) Annual Report.
The report also shows that since April EAS have won back over £150,000 in unpaid wages for agency workers.
Legal recruiter Laurence Simons is to open an office in São Paulo, Brazil.
The new office will work both with law firms and in-house clients in Brazil and throughout the Latin America region.
Education recruiters Areté Leaders and Special Agent are to merge to create ‘Randstad Education – leadership, management and consultancy’ in January.
Research by provider of on-demand talent management solutions Taleo has found that, despite having weathered the worst of the recession, most workers do not expect to receive a bonus this year.