60% of job seekers are most annoyed and frustrated by the lack of, or more accurately, no communication, from recruiters when applying for a job, a recent poll by webrecruit has revealed. The poll, carried out on LinkedIn by online recruiter, webrecruit, further revealed 29% of respondents were most...

George Osborne opened his 2013 Budget speech with a focus on the outlook for the UK labour market, and rightly so as the facts make for good reading: 600,000 more jobs expected this year than last, six jobs being created in the private sector for every one lost in...

Commenting on the announcements on growth and jobs by the Chancellor in today’s Budget the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) director of policy Tom Hadley says: “The Chancellor had to deliver on jobs and growth and with measures that cut the cost of hiring, reward workers with more take-home...

Last year the Government proposed amendments to the Finance Bill, including extending the IR35 tax rules to ‘office holders’, a move which could have a major impact within the recruitment industry. As the legal partner to the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC), Lawspeed researched the basis for this proposed...

Reacting to today’s Treasury response to Michael Heseltine’s report No Stone Unturned  the think tank IPPR North  welcomes the government’s commitment  to greater economic decentralisation, but questions whether it is goes far enough and is backed with enough cash. While 81 of Heseltine’s 89 recommendations are being taken forward,...