Business confidence has risen across medium and large UK organisations, with the number of companies with sales freezes in place dropping for the first time in a year.
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A Nando’s restaurant in central Edinburgh has taken on 15 new members of staff through the government’s Work Programme, through employability services firm Ingeus.
The number of permanent positions available in the UK in April rose, but at a slower rate than that seen in the previous two months, shows data from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and professional services firm (KPMG).
Multi-sector recruiter Morgan McKinley UK has promoted Stuart Duncan to operations director for its accounting, finance & support sector, and James Smith is now associate director for its temporary finance & compliance team.
Around 120 new jobs will be created at a new contact centre for telecommunications company BT in Belfast’s Riverside Tower.
Software giant SAP is investing €110m (£90m) to create 250 new jobs at its Dublin and Galway facilities.
Fast food chain Southern Fried Chicken (SFC) is aiming to launch 200 new stores across the UK, creating around 2,000 new jobs in the next five years.
Care provider Great Lakes Caring is to create 225 home health and hospice jobs in Michigan and a further 100 in Indiana and Ohio in 2012.
Over three-quarters (78%) of Czechs believe that cheap foreign manpower can deprive nationals of jobs and should be further regulated, reports Czech News Agency ČTK.
Job board Monster’s European Employment Index demonstrates year-on-year growth of 6% in online job opportunities, with the index hitting 144 for April, but Germany continues to be the only nation exhibiting strong growth.