Nottinghamshire County Council has signed an agreement with the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) to investigate rogue gangmasters and deal with the community issues they create.
The Council and the GLA will work together to identify potential abuse of vulnerable workers, often migrant workers, in agriculture and the food and drink processing and packaging industries.
Employers guilty of not processing job applications from non-UK, EU and European Economic Area (EEA) applicants could be held liable for indirect race discrimination.
According to law firm Wedlake Bell, employers could be culpable for failing to consider employing a person that requires a work permit.
Brand response company TheAgency has agreed a managed recruitment service contract with specialist media, creative and marketing recruiters, Ad Lib.
Through the managed service agreement, TheAgency will have one central contact point, while Ad Lib will field sales calls and CVs from other recruiters and negotiate fees.
Firms are recruiting more HR professionals with restructuring and downsizing experience as a result of the economic downturn, according to Robert Walters’ latest salary survey.
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A recruitment company allegedly “created” invoices to which no money was owed, a court was told on Friday.
As part of its global expansion strategy, professional and management recruiter Antal International has developed a new approach to joint venturing which allows other organisations and individual recruiters to work with it without seed capital.
Sterling’s recovery will give a long-term boost to retail and hospitality, say recruiters.
Earlier this week, the pound hit a nine-month high against the dollar.
Recruiter Penny Streeter OBE has stepped into the breach and paid for the air travel for the South African football team following the withdrawal of government funding for the flight of the 10-man squad to the Homeless World Cup in Italy next week.
The managing director of nursing recruiter Ambition 24hours, who was homeless herself, opened offices in South Africa in 2004.
Human capital management solutions provider Remedy HCMS has launched Aventine design, a consultative service for web design and development, branding and graphic design.
Demand continued to decline in professional, scientific, and technical services sectors. Food preparation recorded a slight increase, while only farming, fishing and forestry, and healthcare practitioners and technical maintained positive growth for the year.
Year-on-year, the index is now down 22%, with US online job availability at its lowest level since 2004.