Talent management solutions provider Taleo has appointed Michael Boese to the newly created position of general manager for cloud computing strategy Talent Grid and group vice-president of corporate business development.
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HR and financial recruiter Macildowie has strengthened its team with a number of appointments.
Haley Belfield joins as a consultant focusing on graduate recruitment in its South Midlands team, based in Leicester, while Macildowie’s HR North team has appointed Chris Francis as consultant.
Specialist recruiting group Hays on Monday called for a moratorium on new employment legislation and a reconfiguring of Jobcentre Plus in launching a “manifesto for employment”.
Contractor accountancy firm ClearSky Accounting has called for IR35 to be simplified rather than review the legislation, which the Tories have committed to, should they win the election.
Shadow business minister Mark Prisk, in a letter to PCG chairman Chris Bryce, said: “A Conservative government would undertake a fundamental review of small business taxation matters, including IR35.”
Current undergraduates have unrealistic expectations of the UK jobs market, according to new research from Totaljobs.com.
Recruiters have welcomed new legislation which comes into force today making it illegal for businesses to use tips to bring staff pay up to minimum wage levels.
The national minimum wage also increased from £5.73 to £5.80 today.
Trading has been ‘worse than anticipated’ for executive search firm Garner in its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2009.
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has revoked the licence of a Bulgarian gangmaster for bringing in workers to the UK on a bogus posted workers scheme and then taking a huge cut of the workers’wages for himself.
Clients are more cautious in hiring and this has led to an adjustment in the basic salaries on offer to recruiters, according to the latest Heywood Associates Recruitment Salary Survey.
Online clothing supplier, Clothes2Order has launched a national search for Britain’s worst work uniform.
The company is inviting submissions from businesses from across the country and the title of the UK’s most undesirable uniform will win the firm a clothing makeover from Clothes2Order, consisting of £500 worth of brand new customised uniforms