Calls from HR staff requiring advice on redundancies to HR software provider NorthgateArinso have doubled in the past year.
The firms say that middle management errors during the redundancy process can cost business thousands of pounds in legal fees and industrial tribunals instead of freeing up the HR department’s time to deal with other problems.
Debtor days dropped dramatically during October and November as recruiters reined in clients to preserve cash flow.
According to BDO Stoy Hayward’s Recruitment Industry Benchmarking, the average debtor days over the past two years was 41.5 days.
This dropped to 39 days in October and 38 days in November.
Comensura has been awarded a three-year contract to supply agency workers across Cardiff Council, with an option to extend for a further 12 months.
Mike Trevor, chief executive of Comensura, says: “Comensura will help the council to streamline its sourcing and management of agency workers across the board and significantly reduce ongoing costs.
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) and the Bulgarian Chief Labour Inspectorate have agreed to work together to monitor and regulate labour companies that provide seasonal workers for the UK.
The agreement follows incidents investigated by the GLA last year when Bulgarian seasonal workers in the agriculture sector reported that they were victims of exploitation in the UK.
In response to your story ‘Ellis Fairbank director speaks of his anguish’ (Recruiter, 4 February), my beef is not with Ellis Fairbank per se, as what they did was lawful (but Harry Cross is spot on when he says it does look “like a cynical ploy to ditch the debt”). No, my beef is with your magazine and its supine journalism.
The BMW-owned car manufacturer has been lambasted by trade union officials after making redundancies at its branch in Cowley, Oxford.
What a smug quote from Julian Young of Matrix (Recruiter, 4 February, p5) in which he argues that 13% is a fair price for longterm assignments.
I think the last time I heard the phrase ‘a fair price’ from a ‘retailer’ it was being used by a major supermarket to dictate supply chain prices to
The downturn will not deter Britons from taking an annual holiday this summer, according to travel recruiters.
John Tolmie, managing director at AA Appointments, told Recruiter:
IT recruiter Concept IT has agreed a sole supplier recruitment deal with IT solutions firm Wincor Nixdorf.
Concept IT will supply all contract and permanent recruitment across the UK for engineering roles, including service engineers, technical helpdesk, repair, technical support engineers and product specialists.
Telecoms giant BT’s move to freeze the pay of all of its UK staff will increase the opportunities for headhunting its top staff, according to recruiters.
Gavin Chase, practice head, Telecoms, CNA Executive Search, told Recruiter he had been contacted by a number of the company’s staff in the last 24 hours: