Government departments are failing to keep 10-day payment pledges, according to commercial credit referencing agency Graydon UK.
The research shows that in a poll of SMEs, that supply government agencies, local government bodies and central government, 98% said that they are still not being paid within the 10-day timeframe pledged by business secretary Lord Mandelson in October 2008.
Business and IT solutions firm Parity is to create 94 jobs over the next three years through the opening of a Centre of Excellence in its Belfast office.
A director of recruitment company accused a man, who said he wanted to bring her company to the stock market, of ruining her business, a court has heard.
Education and children’s services recruiter Navigate has appointed former head teacher Simon Camby as client director.
International executive search and selection firm Hays Executive has won a contract to recruit 15 executives for a local government association.
International executive search firm Pedersen & Partners (P&P), which has 37 international offices, has taken over the Russian operations of executive search firm EWK International.
The combined team will now work under the P&P brand at offices in Moscow and St Petersburg.
Firms in Yorkshire and Humberside have been urged to do more to support older workers by Chris Ball, chief executive of TAEN – The Age and Employment Network.
Almost a third (30%) of employers send confidential information via standard email attachment or unsecured in the body of an email, according to a survey by recruitment software firm InvisiViewmedia.com.
Interim management and executive search firm Hexagon Human Capitalhas requested the suspension of trading of its shares on Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
