Government Will Not Appeal High Court Decision
It has been confirmed that the government will not appeal the High Court decision that using agency workers to cover for workers on strike is unlawful. This means that last year’s rushed legislation change will revert back to the original version with effect from 10 August 2023. After this date, temporary agency workers will not […]
Demand For Temps Increases – But Slower Rate Than Previous Months
Demand for temps continued to increase in December, but overall hiring activity was dampened at the end of 2022 according to the latest KPMG and REC UK Report on Jobs survey, compiled by S&P Global. Permanent placements fell for the third month in a row, and at the quickest rate since the start of 2021, while billings […]
Demand For Temporary Workers Continues
Latest data from our friends at the REC (recruitment agency trade body) show that there is still considerable demand for workers with job vacancy levels remaining high. This is good news for temporary workers as businesses are more likely to need short term help to plug the gaps. According to the REC’s Labour Market Tracker, […]
Government Must Abandon ‘Unworkable’ Plan For Temps To Cover Strikes
Representatives of both the recruitment agency sector and workers unions have called on the government to abandon its “unworkable” plan to lift the ban on agency workers filling in during strikes. The full joint statement from the TUC and REC reads: The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and Trades Union Congress (TUC) are urging the government […]
Temporary Workers Are Critical To The Economy!
Latest data shows that temporary and contract workers played a critical role in UK’s economy during the pandemic, with 980,000 temporary workers on assignment every day during 2020. Despite this being the height of the pandemic when so much was turbulent and unpredictable, the use of temporary workers was approximately the same as for 2019. […]
Job Adverts Hit New High in Run-Up to Christmas
The number of active job adverts in the UK continued to grow rapidly throughout November as businesses rush to hire staff ahead of Christmas. According to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC)’s latest Jobs Recovery Tracker findings: 210,000 new job adverts were posted in the UK last week, after three of the best weeks for […]
Recruiters Are Busier Than Ever But It’s Taking Longer
Skills shortages in all sectors are inevitably having a significant impact on the recruitment industry, with three in five (58%) saying that they have at least 30% more roles to fill now than before the pandemic. Almost every respondent to the REC survey (97%) said that it was taking longer than usual to fill those vacancies, […]
Hirer Confidence Increases Even In Lockdown – REC JobsOutlook
Businesses’ confidence in their ability to hire new staff continued to improve in the three months to February 2021, according to new data from the REC. Employer confidence in hiring rose to a net level of +13 in December-February 2021, six percentage points higher than in the three months to January. In February alone, this […]