Online recruitment group Monster Worldwide has appointed Matt Anchin to the newly-created position of senior vice president for global communications.
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China’s technical workers in IT and engineering roles saw the lowest rate of people changing jobs in 2012 of any business function, at 18% and 24% respectively, followed by board-level staff at 27%.
Croatian workers will not have the automatic freedom to work in The Netherlands for at least two years – and possibly as many as seven – from the 1 July date which sees the country join the European Union.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has more than trebled its number of investigations into suspected IR35 abuses in the seven months since April 2012 compared to the whole of the previous year.
International IT services company Atos has opened applications for its apprenticeship schemes, while expansion in Dublin for web firm Yahoo! means it will need to hire 200 employees in the next 12 months.
Senior executives in Adecco and Hays, two of the UK’s most prominent staffing companies, have criticised the chancellor for failing to address the country’s skills agenda.
Members of the UK’s contractor community tell Recruiter that the chancellor could have done more to boost the sector.
There has been a warm welcome from business groups and the staffing sector for the chancellor’s announcement of a cut in the National Insurance Contributions (NICs) paid by employers of up to £2,000 a year.
The chancellor needs to get on with implementing plans for its state-backed Business Bank to allow staffing companies to grow, says Peter Lowman, managing director of LoveWorkLife, a specialist consultancy that advises recruitment companies.
The writing is on the wall for offshore employment intermediaries based outside the UK who fail to pay the correct employers’ National Insurance Contributions (NICs), following yesterday’s Budget, according to the director of global tax services at Ernst & Young.