The proposed increase of the national minimum wage to £6.10 would increase unemployment, according to the director general of the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC).
But the TUC claimed recently that the UK economy has room to accommodate a rise to £6.10 per hour.
As the International Labour Organization (ILO) predicts that global unemployment could rise by 51m, hospitality recruiters are actually looking at growing their business overseas.
Mark Norris, chief executive at Profile, told Recruiter that there are currently great opportunities overseas.
Local councils in the West Midlands have entered into talks with government over a £1bn statutory city region plan which could create more than 40,000 jobs in Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country.
John Faraguna is the new managing director of Hays’ global health and social care division.
The former chief executive of NHS Professionals, the health service’s temporary staffing and recruitment organisation, has joined Hays’ newly launched global health and social care business.
Multi-sector recruiter Right Management has appointed Ruediger Schaefer as group executive vice president with responsibility for Europe, Middle East and Asia Regions (EMEA).
In response to your article ‘British recruiters return from Oz’ (recruiter.co.uk, 17 July), although it is true some recruiters who were sponsored on 457 visas may have returned home over the past six months, due to not being able to find new roles, the businesses that have the eligibility to sponsor people are still continuing to do this for the candidates with the right skill set.
Racist recruitment practices by recruiters have been revealed by the BBC in an undercover investigation.
BBC One’s Inside Out West programme found that 25 out out of 30 recruiters agreed to a request to only send white applicants for a receptionist’s job.
Technical and engineering recruiter TechConsult UK hopes to hire several new consultants after its success supplying a “pioneering” energy company.
Steve Guest, managing director of energy sector recruiter TechConsult UK, told Recruiterhe was “looking at taking on a number of fee earners fairly quickly”.
The majority of British workers are prepared to take a pay-cut in order to retain colleagues, according to a new survey.
The survey, from job board fish4jobs, found that that although 49% of workers expect their salary to be cut or frozen this year, they would rather take a pay cut than watch colleagues be forced from their jobs
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has extended its contract with public sector recuiter Comensura.
Comensura will continue to manage the London borough’s temporary recruitment process.