Increase In Businesses Hiring Temps And Contractors
Contract and temporary staff hires have increased significantly in 2024 compared to the end of last year, according to data from hiring platform Totaljobs. Their latest report focuses on the impact of skills shortages and what businesses are doing to address them. More than 1,000 HR decision-makers took part in the research, finding that recruitment […]
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 […]
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. […]
015 Routes to Market – Different Types of Contracts With Recruitment Agencies
If you’re completely new to finding work via a recruitment agency then you can be forgiven for being overwhelmed by the various contractual options you might be offered. There is a confusing array of choice, and each one has different tax and employment rights implications. To bring some clarity to a very confusing subject, we […]
011 Why is the recruitment industry often vilified, and does it matter?
Recruitment is often a vilified profession, much-maligned by candidates who feel they are poorly treated. And as our audience (you!) consists of agency workers we thought we should examine why. To help us do that, we spoke to Tim Jacob who has some 25 years experience as a recruiter and now advises recruitment firms on […]
008: The Impact of Brexit on Agency Workers and Recruiters
We all know that Brexit has now happened, but do you know what the impact will be on agency workers and recruiters? It’s a big change for the UK, so today we’re talking to Lewina Farrell, a solicitor with many years’ experience of the recruitment agency sector, about what exactly Brexit means for us. This […]
003: New ways of finding work, an interview with Lorna Davidson, CEO at Red WigWam
In today’s episode I am delighted to chat with Lorna Davidson, CEO at Red WigWam which in her words is the tinder of recruitment – using algorithms to connect and match workers and clients. Join us for a discussion on finding new ways of working, in particular in relation to online platforms and the gig […]
000: Empowering agency workers – trailer episode
In this trailer episode, Julia talks about her background, why she has started this podcast, who it’s for, and the exciting line up of topics that she will be covering. She talks about the increasing number of temporary and agency workers in the UK right now, and how this type of work will be essential […]