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Recruiters should regard the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) pay comparator as ’their friend’, according to an employment lawyer. Alison Treliving, a partner in the human capital practice at Squire, Sanders, Hammonds, told the recent Recruitment & Employment Confederation AWR National Summit that recruiters should use the pay comparator as a defence against potential legal claims.
Inspectors have uncovered instances of failing to pay workers, and other non-compliances, following a targeted enforcement operation focused on the construction sector throughout October.
A Dungannon-based gangmaster was convicted on a charge of section 12(1) of the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 of operating without a licence.
Last Tuesday (23 November) Tracy Gallagher of Gallagher Meat Contractors based in Dungannon but whose business address is Gortin Road, Omagh, pleaded guilty to the charge and was consequently fined £750 and ordered to pay costs.
Social careers guidance, development and e-mentoring platform WYGU (When You Grow Up) www.wygu.com has launched.
The site offers e-mentoring, peer guidance and personal career-matching, as user-generated content in information resource – WYGUpedia.
IR35 is to be retained with the government committing to improving the way it is administered, according to Budget documents.
The documents say that following the publication of the OTS review of small business tax, the government will commit to setting up a dedicated helpline staffed by specialists.
JSA has announced that it has exited a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) and completed required payments.
The umbrella firm entered the CVA 18 months ago.
JSA has also appointed a finance director Louise Rayner, who joined the company at the beginning of May.
Sales and marketing are set to be the recruitment bright spots within the UK’s financial services industry in the first quarter of 2011. According to the latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey, firms are planning to invest more in marketing.
City job vacancies rose 11% in January on last year, according to data from financial services recruiter Astbury Marsden.
The data shows vacancies rose from 4,920 in January 2010 to 5,440 last month.
Four in 10 employees plan to work past the default retirement age, set to be phased out in October next year, according to a survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The survey also reveals that 29% do not plan on working past the state retirement age and 25% don’t know either way.