by Lynne Gowers | Sep 3, 2020 | Agencies, Contractors
Amid what is undeniably a gloomy overall outlook, temp recruiters and contractors can take some hope from the latest Jobs Outlook report from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation. The report surveyed UK employers on their hiring patterns and sentiment...
by Lynne Gowers | Aug 6, 2020 | Liquid Friday
2020 was certainly an unprecedented season for the Premier League, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a long hiatus to fixtures from mid March. After the restart, on 25th June 2020, Manchester City lost 2-1 to Chelsea, mathematically confirming Liverpool as...
by Lynne Gowers | Aug 3, 2020 | Agencies
Weekly job adverts have topped 1 million for the first time since lockdown measures were eased in early July. Latest figures from the Recruitment & Employment Federation (REC) show the total number of active job ads was £1.05 million in the week of 6-12 July, up...
by Lynne Gowers | Jul 10, 2020 | IR35, Agencies, General News
On 8th July, Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his summer economic update in which he outlined the government’s “Plan for Jobs”, with a focus on the creation, support and protection of jobs while acknowledging the challenges that will bring. Here are the key...
by Lynne Gowers | Jul 6, 2020 | Agencies, Contractors, IR35
Despite opposition, reforms to the IR35 off-payroll working rules will definitely go ahead in April 2021. A year’s delay to the changes, due to Covid-19, made 6th April 2021 the hastily pencilled-in start date.To extend that rather clumsy analogy, that date has now...