Client companies are waging war on recruitment service providers, seeking to impose their own contracts, which often contain potentially harmful clauses. Vanessa Townsend looks at the possible problems and how recruiters can push back against these conditions or insure against them
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Defence company BAE Systems plans to close three UK-based factories.
A spokesperson from the company, which currently employs 1,820 people in the UK, says Guildford, Leeds and Telford will close with the loss of some 330 jobs; 50 jobs will be lost at Newcastle and seven jobs will be lost at Leicester, among other efficiency savings.
RBS fraud trial
Two former recruiters were cleared of conspiring to defraud the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) at Southwark Crown Court on 7 May.
Multi-sector staffing firm right4staff has introduced a new service to initially supply experienced tobacco industry workers for temporary or contract assignments overseas.
Rising unemployment will hit the retail sector as cash-strapped consumers spurn the high street, according to retail recruiters.
Peter Burgess, director at Retail HR, told Recruiter: “Retail sales have held up very well and this is surprising.
“However, the real downturn will occur when unemployment rises.
Public sector and social care recruiter Metro3 Staffing has successfully been prosecuted for offences under the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Banking, commerce and industry, secretarial and IT recruiter Contact Recruitment is taking steps to reduce the risks of swine flu spreading among its staff and clients.
Uzair Bawany, Contact Recruitment’s managing director, told a breakfast seminar of clients in London that Contact’s consultants now asked candidates whether they had been in high-risk countries, such as Mexico.
The proposed tube strike in London will badly affect the city’s cafes and restaurants as well as temps, according to hospitality recruiters.
Alan Hogg, director at Kerry Robert, told Recruiter that the strike, due to take place between Tuesday and Thursday next week, would mean that a lot of assignments could now be missed.