Agriculture

First People Recruitment joins The Kingdom Group following acquisition

The Kingdom Group has completed the acquisition of First People Recruitment (FPR).

Your recruitment business 6 March 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 17-21 FEBRUARY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Bakkavor, Berry Recruitment

Your business, Your recruitment business 19 February 2025

Pro-Force acquires Driven Recruitment to strengthen Pro-Drive division

UK labour provider Pro-Force has acquired recruitment specialist Driven Recruitment, which has been based in Birmingham since 2002.

Your recruitment business 5 February 2025

Migrant Help uses fake recruiter to expose modern slavery in the UK

Charity Migrant Help exposed the reality of modern slavery in the UK by taking part in a popular careers fair under the guise of being a pretend recruitment company.

Your business, Your recruitment business 2 December 2024

Research reveals those industries penalised by HMRC for lying about tax

The Global Payroll Association (GPA) has revealed which UK business sectors have been hit the worst for defaulting on tax.

Financials, Legislation/Regulation 13 August 2024

REC disputes new holiday pay guidance from the GLAA

The Gangmaster and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has issued a new brief setting out their position on the treatment of holiday pay and how to comply with their Licensing Standards.

Your business, Your recruitment business 8 November 2023

NEW TO THE MARKET: 18-22 SEPTEMBER 2023

This week’s new launches include: Camino Group, Swift Temps

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 20 September 2023

APPOINTMENTS: 17-21 JULY 2023

This week’s appointments include: Business Stream, Constantine Law, Heidrick & Struggles, Primis, Taylor Osborne, Ventula Consulting

Your business, Your recruitment business 17 July 2023

GLAA signs landmark agreements with Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan to further protect workers

The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has signed agreements with the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to strengthen the protections for workers arriving in the UK.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 30 May 2023

Seven-year sentence for unlicensed Norwich gangmaster

A Lithuanian national resident in Norfolk has become the first person ever to be sent to prison for an offence under the Gangmasters Licensing Act.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 10 December 2013

Check firms supplying Romanian and Bulgarian staff, urges GLA

As Bulgarian and Romanian workers get full rights to work in the UK in January, the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has warned firms in regulated industries to check that labour suppliers hold the legally-required licence.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 4 December 2013

West Midlands gangmaster loses licence over Working Time Regulations

A labour provider in the Black Country has been stripped of its Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) licence after the organisation found its licensee “incompetent” and discovering it was flouting Working Time Regulations
Legislation/Regulation 15 November 2013

ALP and GLA back Stronger Together campaign against ‘modern day slavery’

Leading organisations and industry bodies in UK food production, retail and horticulture have launched an educational campaign to tackle labour abuse, following the home secretary’s launch last week of an information sharing protocol.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 25 October 2013

ALP allies with British Growers Association to strengthen labour supply

A new strategic alliance between the Association of Labour Providers (ALP) and the British Growers Association (BGA) will strengthen arrangements for labour supply to the UK horticulture sector.
Your recruitment business 2 October 2013

NEST and ALP help agri sector employers navigate automatic enrolment

The government’s national workplace pension scheme NEST is working with the Association of Labour Providers (ALP) to help labour providers and employers in the food and agricultural sectors navigate their automatic enrolment duties.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 25 September 2013

Stourbridge labour agency loses GLA licence after passing off Romanian workers as Hungarians

A West Midlands labour agency that illegally employed Romanian workers then supplied them to a farm in the Cotswolds by passing them off as Hungarians has lost its gangmaster’s licence.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 24 September 2013

No extension of migrant agricultural workers scheme, says government

The government has confirmed that there will be no extensions to the Season Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS), which is due to close at the end of this year, and currently allows the sector to take on up to 21,250 additional migrant workers a year for up to six-months at a time.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 12 September 2013

GLA looks forward to improvements and civil sanctions

The head of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA), the public regulator of labour suppliers to horticulture, food processing and packaging, forestry and shellfish gathering industries, says he welcomes the government response to a formal consultation on the organisation’s scope and governance.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 6 September 2013

Seven arrested as GLA uncovers trafficking operation

Seven people were arrested and 11 potential victims of human trafficking were identified in a joint operation involving the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) and other law enforcement agencies in Derby.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 16 July 2013

Aberdeen farmer fined by GLA for unlicensed temp supply

An investigation by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has seen an Aberdeenshire farmer fined £2k for supplying temporary workers without the necessary gangmaster’s licence.
Your recruitment business 9 July 2013

AB Werkt Zuid-Nederland launches after co-op recruiters merge

Two Dutch co-operative recruitment firms have voted unanimously to merge, forming new co-operative recruiter AB Werkt Zuid-Nederland.
Your recruitment business 3 July 2013

GLA revokes Peterborough recruiter’s licence over multiple violations

Peterborough recruitment agency INTERecruit has had its Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) licence revoked, after inspectors from the organisation discovered multiple breaches of conditions.
Your recruitment business 6 June 2013

Prevention and cure better together at GLA

The chief executive officer of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has promised a twin-track approach to the body’s remit of regulating the supply of workers in various horticultural, agricultural and shellfish gathering industries.
Your recruitment business 14 May 2013

Wax Selection gets search consultant

Specialist life science recruiter Wax Selection has hired Aimee Glover in the role of search consultant.
Your recruitment business 5 April 2013

GLA refusal of ‘phoenix’ company licence upheld

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has welcomed an appeals court’s upholding of its decision to revoke the license of a business whose new director’s previous company had folded, with over £100k in unpaid tax.
Your recruitment business 2 April 2013
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