As the squeeze on local authority budgets tighten, larger suppliers look set to gain an even greater share of the market, unless the smaller agencies adapt. Colin Cottell reports
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Supermarket giant Tesco announced yesterday that it would offer all young people accepted for work experience the opportunity to opt either to be paid or to continue receiving benefits.
Hotel chain IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) will create 2,992 new jobs in its 275 UK hotels over the next three years, of which 1,144 will come this year.
Trustees Unlimited is urging graduates to sign up to become a charity trustee to gain new skills and work experience that will help them win jobs in the future.
Financial recruiter Allemby Hunt has appointed Lisa Williams as a consultant on its temporary and contract desk.
Females make up 16% of partners in Magic Circle law firms in the UK and Holland – the highest rate in Europe – but two thirds of female lawyers say their gender is a barrier to success.
The advice of the independent, non-governmental Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) that the government should not change the current migration cap for skilled workers has been broadly welcomed.
Hotel and restaurant group Whitbread, which employs more than 40,000 people worldwide, will create over 10,000 jobs across in the UK during the next three years.
The last quarter of 2011 saw an 11.8% decrease in the use of temporary labour in local authorities and public bodies, with female workers and those under 34 more likely to be negatively affected.
Emma Harrison, chairman of welfare-to-work provider A4e, has stepped down as David Cameron’s ‘Family Champion’.