Key points: – Permanent and temporary staff appointments both increase – Solid, albeit slightly slower, expansion of job vacancies – Modest rise in pay rates – Marginal fall in permanent staff availability, temp availability up Summary: The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG Report on Jobs – published...
Read moreReferring to the announcement last week of a government consultation into offshore tax arrangements, often used by temporary workers, Adrian Marlowe, chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC), said: “It is to be welcomed that the government is finally taking some action. The temporary workforce has significantly increased...
Read moreLess than one in three financial sector workers outside of senior management say they’re proud to work in the sector, almost two thirds of all workers in the sector believe some people in their organisation are rewarded in a way that incentivises inappropriate behaviour, and three in four financial...
Read moreUnite, Britain’s biggest union, has called for urgent action to close the skills gap by providing decent skilled apprenticeships to young people or face a skills ‘timebomb’. Speaking at a conference on skills in Manchester today (6 June), Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said: “Decent, skilled apprenticeships today...
Read moreIn a survey of over 2,000 British workers, 38% of British workers said they were content with their career progression. But 73% of those working in insurance said they were happy with the way they were scaling the corporate ladder. Those working in property, financial services, nursing, IT and...
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