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Healthcare recruiter Hays Healthcare has opened a new office in Leeds, Yorkshire.

The office, located in Park Row in Leeds, is to cater for all grades and specialities.

Industrial, commercial and construction recruiter Barker Ross is planning to increase its use of biometric staff tracking measure by offering it to construction clients.

Tim Sutcliffe, director of on-site services, told Recruiter the system can record agency workers’ time and attendance.

Applications are now being accepted by TAEN (The Age and Employment Network) from UK companies who wish to submit applications for the 2009 AARP International Innovative Employer Awards.
 
Recognising positive commitments to workers aged 50 and over, the deadline for receipt is Friday 24 April 2009.

International recruitment specialist Robert Walters announced that profits after taxation were £12.2m for the 12 months ending 31 December 2008 compared with £17.4m in 2007.

Revenue rose by 5% to £337.3m compared with £319.8m in 2007.

Transcend has been chosen as a partner for the multi-million pound rail development.

The joint venture between construction services companies AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group, will be responsible for “strategic programme management” worth in the region of £100m, according to the Crossrail company.

The pay of NHS bosses in England rose by more than three times that of nurses last year.

Figures from pay research company Income Data Services revealed that directors of NHS Foundations in England saw their pay rise by 6.4%, compared with the 1.9% awarded to nurses.

At at a time when many recruiters are scrutinising costs, finance and IT recruiter Astbury Marsden is altering its commission structure in a bid to attract and retain good consultants.

In a trading update, Hexagon Human Capital says it anticipates that net fee income (NFI) for the quarter ending  31 March 2009 will be below that for the same quarter in 2008.

The number of civil engineering projects starting in April increased by 20% on the previous year, according to  figures from the Glenigan construction index.

Adrian Davies, business development director at multi-sector recruiter Acorn, told Recruiter the company had increased the number of on-site personnel over the past six months.

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