Rachael Clements and her brother Tom have taken over the running of Travail Employment Group in Trowbridge from Steve Oborne.
Oborne has decided to take semi-retirement from the business, while Clements and her brother have signed a new franchise agreement with Travail Employment Group.
Lone parents are to be offered extra help to get training and work experience while their children are at nursery school, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper announced today.
Lone parents will also be able to keep £50 of their wages before losing any benefit if they get jobs for less than 16 hours a week.
Recruitment and outsourcing provider Network Group Holdings has bought 51% of health and social care staffing firm Network Recruitment Solutions (NRS) from Pertemps Investments Limited.
Irish multi-sector recruiter CPL Resources has acquired an 80% stake in healthcare recruitment firms Servisource Healthcare and Servisource Recruitment.
The acquisitions increase CPL’s footprint in Ireland’s healthcare sector.
The government must not sacrifice its support for small businesses as part of widely-anticipated spending cuts to plug the gap in public finances, the Forum of Private Business (FPB) is warning.
The forecast for public sector net borrowing by the end of 2009 is £185 billion, meaning substantial spending cuts will be required in order to plug the gap.
The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils has identified six key areas where Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) can contribute to ensuring a more productive and competitive workforce in the UK, in a manifesto launched today.
John Robinson, managing director of technical, engineering, scientific and commercial recruiter Scantec Personnel, says that as social networking sites become more popular it is in danger of becoming a double-edged sword for candidates.
The government has chosen welfare-to-work provider Reed in Partnership to run a core component of its Backing Young Britain programme, aimed at helping unemployed 18-24 year olds into non-graduate internships and work experience placements.
The legal sector has become more competitive, as M&A activity has fallen, so candidate numbers in this area have risen
