Internships designed to help people with learning disabilities into work will be tested by employers across England, minister for disabled people Jonathan Shaw said today.
Project Search provides a series of internships with an employer for people with learning disabilities and 14 sites, announced today, will take part in a government evaluation of the model from next September.
Recruiters have expressed doubts over the government’s plans to give the Financial Services Authority (FSA) increased powers to curb bankers’ bonuses.
Advert distribution and response tracking technology provider Broadbean Technology has promoted Lee Anne Davey to client services director.
Davey will focus on driving greater efficiencies across customer facing business units and will also be involved with shaping the future international role of client services.
The impetus for any changes to the Agency Workers Regulations would have to come from industry, said Conservative MP Jonathan Djanogly (pictured).
Employee numbers in the UK services sector rose for the first time since April 2008, while construction employers continued to cut headcount, according to the March’s CIPS/Markit Business Activity Index.
Jobcentre Plus, the insolvency trade body R3 and the Insolvency Service are to develop a system to pool information about possible job losses in struggling companies, which aims to help to ensure that people threatened with redundancy are offered support quickly and efficiently.
Half of British workers surveyed by online courier matchmaking service www.Boxby.co.uk have exploited the recent cold snap to skive off work.
The survey of 1,029 people found that 49% of respondents used the snow as an excuse to have time off, citing issues such as problems with transport when they could in fact have made it in to work.
Albany’s UK arm is likely to go into administration, according to a director of Albany Technologies.
