Unemployment in the US has reached its highest level for 26 years.
According to figures from the US Labor Department, the number of people still on jobless rolls, after drawing an initial week of aid, jumped 101,000 to 4.6m in the week ended 27 December, the highest since November 1982.
Dan Morrison: agency margins squeezed by clients
Admin recruitment will be among the first sectors to emerge after the recession, according to admin and secretarial recruiters.
David Morel, managing director at Tiger Recruitment, told Recruiter that the sector was generally three months ahead of other markets.
HM Revenue & Customs has re-iterated its position that the VAT staff hire concession will be removed from 1 April.
Tom Hadley, Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) director of external relations, told Recruiter the REC received a letter last week indicating that HMRC “is sticking to its guns”.
Small businesses will get a one-stop shop for guidance on health and safety and employment legislation, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) announced today.
An independent review, led by former recruitment business owner Sarah Anderson CBE, has recommended a range of solutions to improve the quality of guidance government gives to business.
Blue-collar recruiter Staffline has closed four branches in response to market conditions.
Andy Hogarth, Staffline’s managing director, told Recruiter the branches had been merged with other locations and headcount loss was “marginal” with only three people being made redundant.
Recent retail job creations are the result of consumers trading downwards, according to retail recruiters.
As clothing retailer H&M and food chain Subway create 14,000 jobs in total, Peter Burgess, director at Retail HR, told Recruiter that the recession did not mean that consumers would desert the high-street.
Begg: campaigned for Fowler
Taking the lead: Benchmark Recruit’s Amy Tingle and Siobhan Hennessey and one of the guide dogs
The two CC’s, helicopter and high altitude views, as well as picking low-level fruit have all made the shortlist of confusing jargon terms.
The list, compiled by secretarial recruiter Office Angels, is as follows: