Multi-sector recruiter Nigel Wright Recruitment has opened a new office in Paris.
The Paris office, located in the prestigious 8ème arrondissement, close to the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysee, will open with 10 consultants and will specialise in the consumer sector.
Technical recruiter McGinley Recruitment Services has opened an office in West Horndon, Brentwood, to service the South-East of England.
Chris Mariner, managing director of JSB McGinley Systems, told Recruiter: “West Horndon is an area where a very high concentration of our existing railway industry customers are based.
Engineering recruiter Excel Technical Consulting has escaped bad debt running into “six figure” sums after its two biggest clients went into insolvency.
The government has announced new national minimum wage rates which will come into effect in October.
Workers aged 22 and over will see an increase from £5.73 to £5.80 an hour, while wages for 18 to 21-year-olds will also rise from £4.77 to £4.83 and for 16 and 17-year-olds, the rate increases to £3.57 an hour from £3.53.
The Bakers at last year’s Recruiter awards
Bill Boorman
The London 2012 Olympics will provide opportunities for all staffing agencies, recruiters have claimed.
Tom Hadley, director of external relations at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, recently called for contractors onsite to work with recruitment agencies to engage London’s local population in to fill jobs.
The list of preferred bidders for the first round of Flexible New Deal contracts to provide welfare-to-work services.
Engineering recruiter Gravity Personnel has acquired multi-sector recruiter Forest Personnel.
Local Reading newspaper Get Reading reports that Gravity Personnel director has taken over the running of Forest Personnel following the retirement of owner Jean Charmak.
