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The former managing director of PAYE umbrella company OrangeGenie, Peter Warren, has launched www.umbrellasupermarket.com, a website to compare umbrella companies.

Recruiters are changing their employment contracts and modifying the amount of rolled-up holiday pay they pay out, according to one employment lawyer.

With a rise in statutory holiday entitlement from 20 days to 24 to take effect from 1 October, Rob Eldridge, employment partner at law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, said two of his clients had raised the hourly rate for rolled-up holiday p

Network Group Holdings, which launched on the Alternative Investment Market on 17 September, is looking to defy the uncertainty in the financial markets and acquire a recruiter in the sector.

Chief executive Jon Smith told Recruiter: "Uncertainty brings opportunity.

SkillsMarket, the specialist recruitment industry software provider, has exclusively told Recruiter that it has raised £3m to finance a planned expansion of iProfiles, its online CV.

The software allows jobseekers to display their CVs, with changes instantly replicated across all databases held by iProfiles recruiters, and enables recruiters to compile candidate shortlists using searchable
Construction recruiters have hit back at criticisms made of them in the recent report by the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE).

The report criticised agencies for charging excessive fees, failing to work to codes of conduct, poor customer service and providing poorly matched CVs.

Tim Cook, managing director of Hays Consulting Engineering, said: "We need to bear in min
The Scottish government has launched a tender for an initial three-year contract to supply temporary staff to its associated departments, executive agencies and non- departmental public bodies.

The provision of temporary staff includes general admin, front of house, security, support workers, accounts, helpdesk and drivers.

The recruiter will be required to provide suitably trained a
Gordon Brown won a reprieve for recruiters as he saw off a European vote which would have given agency workers full employment rights.

Brown won plaudits from recruiters for his diplomatic tactics in blocking a crucial EU vote on the Agency Work Directive, which would give temps full pay after six we

Recruiters are failing to register with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and risk an unlimited fine, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).

Advanced Resource Managers, a Havant-based IT, engineering recruitment and training company, has rolled out an internal share scheme to all employees, to motivate and reward staff.

The scheme offers five tranches of free share options over the next five years. The options will mature after five years or when the company floats.

Michael Page International has begun implementing business intelligence and performance management technology from software services firm Cognos.

The performance management technology will allow staff to gather accurate results information, to monitor performance against planned goals, to understand variances and to make investment decisions.

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