Welfare to work provider FourstaR Employment and Skills has been chosen to deliver the government’s flagship welfare to work programme in the Birmingham and Solihull area.
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published proposed changes to its guidance on directordisqualification orders in competition law cases.
More than 80% of public sector organisations think private sector workers could best fill skills shortages in their organisation, according to a new survey from Hays.
Financial services sales recruiter Verridian has appointed Martin Tuckwell as a non-executive director.
Retail recruiters are not experiencing any Christmas joy, despite bumper numbers of shoppers taking to the high-street this weekend.
A spokeswoman for the New West End Company, which represents London’s shopping district, told Metro that 2m shoppers took to the high street this weekend.
Legal recruiter SSQ is to open a new office in Paris. The French office will be led by Melanie Tremblay, who has worked for several years in the French legal recruitment market.
Marketing recruiter Elizabeth Norman has reported healthy revenues over the third and fourth quarters.
Emy Rumble-Mettle, general manager at Elizabeth Norman, told Recruiter: “We have continued to see healthy revenues in 2008 when compared to 2007. Q3 has increased by 16% and Q4 by 24%.
UK unemployment is likely to rise above 3m during the recession, according to David Blanchflower, the Bank of England’s labour market expert.
His comments followed the US Federal Reserve’s announcement to slash interest rates to 0.25%, the lowest in its 232-year history.
Niche recruiter Blue Pelican Group is focusing more of its efforts on the relatively buoyant pharmaceutical sector, which has not been hit as hard as other sectors by the economic downturn.
Specialist professional recruiter Hydrogen Group says “the uncertain macro-economic environment” has continued to make trading conditions difficult, particularly across financial services, one of its core markets.