Brazil’s unemployment rate increased for the second consecutive month in a row in February, according to the Brazilian Census Bureau.
The Bureau reveals that the month’s 6.4% joblessness rate was still the lowest for the month of February since 2003.
Law firm Emmetts Solicitors is to recruit 100 new legal and administrative personnel within 12 months, according to new head of HR, Charles Crookall.
Job insecurity is on the rise among UK workers, according to Spring’s ‘Employee Outlook’ survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Job insecurity has edged up since the previous quarter, with 21% of employees thinking it likely they could lose their jobs as a result of the downturn compared to 20% last quarter.
Vaado Software is to launch people and performance management solution Vaado People later this month.
eg.1 executive search has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi.
The move follows the opening of an office in Dubai and the firm says it plans to open a new office in the US next year.
The number of complaints received by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate rose by 9% in the last year, according to its 2009-10 annual report.
Middle management recruitment brand Argyll Scott will open an office in Singapore in the first quarter of 2011. Marek Dalyluk, previously a director and founding partner of finance and banking recruiter Investigo, will head the new office, where the sector focus will initially be on financial services.
Online job demand rose in December, according to the latest Monster Employment Index.
The index rose by 11% year-on-year in December, though still down on the 22% growth rate posted in September 2010.
Construction union UCATT is calling for an urgent investigation into the actions of certain payroll companies which, it says, are costing the Inland Revenue millions in lost National Insurance contributions and denying workers even the most basic employment rights.
Supermarket Waitrose is creating management and non-management roles, as well as food specialists in meat, cheese, fish and wines, to fill new 3,000 new roles.