British Airways to make further redundancies despite previous month's pay cut requests
BA - one of Europe's three largest airlines has announced to shareholders during its AGM that 3,700 jobs will be cut in order to avoid bankruptcy. Protesters met outside the AGM to demonstrate...IT contracting staff to be hit in Shell shakedown following outsourced contracts
Shell to announce second quarter 2009 results end July after giving contractors unfair pay cuts amidst restructuring of IT departments.
Dutch company Shell announced last week that it plans to lay...
Is the UK Through the Worst of the Economic Downturn? How is the UK's Economy Really Shaking up in 2009 Second Quarter?
Issued by the British Chamber of Commerce, The Quarterly Economic Survey is the largest survey of private business in the UK with around 5000 members across the country participating in the survey ...
Will the UK recruitment industry demonstrate better signs of recovery than US
US Employment Figures Deliver Blow Despite Manufacturing Upturn
The US economy is showing signs of recovery after the longest recession since the last world war, albeit by a slow down in reduction...
Improvement in recruitment for East England During Second Quarter 2009
Despite the first quarter 2009 showing the employment market in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire has been as badly affected as other areas in the UK, the second quarter from May shows that the n...
Government consults on Agency Workers Directive
Agency Workers Directive causes uproar within the recruitment industry. A 12 week consultation, currently in progress, could lead to the introduction of damaging legislation for temporary workers a...
The Health and Safety Environment in the Recruitment Industry
Health and safety awareness and assessments could prevent temporary worker deaths argues Alan Ratcliffe, of Ratcliffe Management Consultancy. In this informative article he highlights the need for ...
Better Employment Prospects Posted in May 2009 according to REC and KPMG
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) have issued a report in collaberation with KPMG demonstrating that jobs in May deteriorated at a slower rate in May as easing was demonstrated&nbs...
EU Agency Workers Directive Damaging for Contractors as well as Recruitment Industry in Current Form
Formed in 2009, Hove based Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC)announced further opposition to the European Unions' Agency Workers Directive that gives temporary staff, contractors an...IT services sector seeing growth within outsourced IT support market
IT support company seeing growth in troubled times.Contract IT support company IT Genie based in Crawley described times as 'tough but showing signs of regained confidence'. Gino Choucair m...Green Shoots for Recruitment or Grey Clouds Ahead?
The arguments presented for the recovery of the fragile recruitment industry weigh heavy at opposing ends with the ‘green shoots’ optimists declaring that we are through the worst of it...
Further Cuts for UK Staff at BT
As UK unemployment levels dip to their lowest in the 21st century BT announces job cuts of between 10-30,000 staff - many from the contractor and agency workforce.
Whilst many of the redundancies ...
Temporary contracts on the increase for Midlands
According to a report on the BBC website Midlands recruitment agencies are seeing around 50% of all contractors and temporary staff finding employment through their books after a rise in contract w...
Further training and professional qualifications help aid contractor blues
Whilst employement figures look poor, there are ways to improve your chances of employment through further training.
During what is a difficult time within recruitment and contracting industries a...
Bulletin shows growth in IT contractor and permanent staffing
E-skills quarterly bulletin which provides an update of labour and skills within IT and financial markets in the UK has outlined a rise overall in the number of people employed within the ITC indus...
National Freelancers Day Announced
The Professional Contractors Group has announced that Monday 23rd November 2009 will become National Freelancers Day.
This has been implemented to acknowledge the valuable contribution freelancers...
Boost for IT workers in UK Budget 2009
Having dragged its' heals with internet broadband access and speeds, the UK government stepped in with yesterday's budget to ensure confirmation of plans to implement a universal 2mbs broad...Emerging Markets Hit Worst in Europe.
IMF drop some bombshells from Spring 2009 Global Financial Stability Report in Washington 21st April
José Viñals, Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Market...
Will the Budget have any affect on Freelance Contractors?
OrangeGenie are pleased to announce that in delivering his Budget for 2009 the Chancellor did not address freelancers or contractors directly; his main focus was on the ‘global’ economi...
Temporary Staffing Provides Key Benefits
It’s a tough job market at the moment in the UK. Temporary staffing is an area where employers can make efficient large scale strategic savings on staffing requirements, keep a flexible effec...
