Commenting on an article in Recruiter magazine on 28th July (“Recruitment bodies welcome new Small Business Czar”), Adrian Marlowe, Chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) said “We identified ‘pay when paid’ and other related unfair payment clauses in RPO contracts as an issue that government urgently needed to address back in 2011 against […]
The government’s latest initiative to appoint a small business commissioner to help with payment terms and disputes between small businesses and their larger customers is to be welcomed, says the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC). “Any help that can be given to smaller businesses that suffer through late payment must be a good thing and […]
Businesses have adapted to the ECJ decisions in the conjoined cases of Stringer and Schultz-Hoff resulting in employees accruing holiday when they are on sick leave. The sometimes substantial amounts of holiday accrued (but not yet taken) because the employee has been on long-term sick leave (due to for instance cancer or HIV) is usually […]
The Commons Select Committee has decided to launch an inquiry into the effects of the introduction and levels of the tribunal fees and charges. The Commons Select Committee inquiry is separate from the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) review. The differences from the MOJ reviews are that this new inquiry is taking evidence from external bodies, […]
The government has now implemented provisions to curb only advertising UK based jobs overseas. The insertion of Regulation 27A of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (‘Conduct Regulations’) means that if you are advertising jobs abroad, you also have to place adverts in English in the UK. It may seem like […]
