Insurance professionals still expect a bumper bonus despite the downturn, according to new research.
The research from, financial and legal recruiter GRS, found that 52% of insurance professionals expect the same or a bigger bonus than last year, while 72% predict they will still receive a bonus.
Firms are at risk from long-term borrowing covenants, according to accountancy and investment management group, Smith & Williamson.
As Marks and Spencers cuts 1,000 jobs and following the demise of Woolworths, recruiters have been urged to keep a tighter reign on bad debts.
Two sales recruiters are defying the downturn by setting up a recruitment business in Cardiff, South Wales.
Duncan Powell and his business partner Dale Williams have not been deterred by recruiters going out of business in other parts of the UK and opened Yolk Sales Recruitment on 5 January.
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A study of contractors by IT recruiter Parity found contract length was the most important factor for 20% of IT professionals, followed by financial reward at 19% and location at 18%.
Alan Rommel, managing director of Parity Resources, told Recruiter focusing on contract length has not increased the length of time it takes to place contractors.
The Equal Pay and Flexible Working Bill is to have a second reading at the House of Lords today.
The bill would make it compulsory for equal pay audits to be carried out for employers found guilty of gender pay discrimination as well as requiring publication of the outcome, while extending the right to request flexible working to all parents of children aged 17 or younger.
Niche medical job board Jobs4Medical has launched a new social work section on its website.
The new section categorises vacancies by department – for example, adolescent social work, elderly and mental disability, as well as by geography, making it easier for the UK’s 76,000 qualified social workers to find the right job in the right area, says the company.
Manufacturing production increased marginally to 35.8 index points in January, compared with 34.9 in December.
However, reading is the third worst the CIPS/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index 17-year history and the sector experienced heavy job loses.
Richard Tillbrook has been appointed managing director at HR GO Kent.
Tillbrook, previously a director at HR GO Bishop’s Stortford office, will take responsibility for working with the branch managers to drive forward the network of six branches located throughout Kent.