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.
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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.
HR needs to do more to improve its ability to buy in services more effectively, according to Simone Hemingway, HR director at Alliance Medical.
Recruiters are set to return to the Social Media in Recruitment Conference to share lessons learned from last year’s confernce.
The joint announcement from Twitter and LinkedIn that they are to partner with one another sets a precedent and opens up further possibilities for the integration of business and social networks according to PR company Punch Communications.
The banning of pre-employment health questionnaires has been welcomed by Susan Scott-Parker, chief executive of the Employers’ Forum on Disability following the Equality Bill entering the statute book.
Healthcare and social care recruiter Healthcare Locums’s International Permanent Placements division (HCL International) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the South Korean government’s human resources development service to exclusively train and develop the country’s healthcare staff for international placements.