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SAINSBURY’S are planning to create upwards of 500 temporary and full time jobs over the next year in the deli sections

The supermarket also announced it is launching six food colleges, in a bid to boost the skills of counter staff. The supermarket is to set aside 220sq m areas in stores where staff are taught skills such as merchandising, knife skills, customer service and café skills.

Sainsbury’s says up to 10,000 staff will go through college, including new recruits.

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Priorities of supply teachers are changing in the current economic climate. Supply teachers want longer term contracts of employment as opposed to higher pay. The Giant Group (a contractor services provider) has done some research that proves that higher pay is not the main motivator. The instability in the economy means that supply teachers want job security and contracts that will continue rather than a stop and start in an interim cycle.

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IT professionals in London are paid 14% more than the UK average. In fact, IT staff in the South East and London are paid 20% more than those in the North of the country. Recent analysis by IT recruitment firm CV Screen has brought this to light.

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The main purpose of the Agency Worker Directive (AWD) is to ensure the appropriate protection of temporary agency workers through the application of the principle of equal treatment and to address unnecessary restrictions and prohibitions on the use of agency work. The AWD follows similar directives on fixed-term and part-time work (which were based on European social partner agreements). Under the Directive ‘equal treatment’ relates only to basic working and employment conditions of temporary agency workers (eg pay, working time). The Directive does not affect the employment status of temporary workers.

The Directive allows the UK to implement the agreeement reached on the 20 May 2008 between the CBI and the TUC, which means that after 12 weeks in a given job, an agency worker will be entitled to equal treatement (at least the basic working and employment conditions that would apply to the worker concerned if s/he had been recruited directly by that undertaking to occupy the same job).

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Paul, the bakers, is seeking “hardworking, smiley engaging people” to fill 1,000 new jobs, according to HR director Esther O’Halloran.

Paul, the French bakery chain has said that it would be creating 1,000 jobs over the next four years as it prepares to expand and open some 50 more shops across the UK. As part of their recruitment process Paul will recruit for attitude and not necessarily experience. Key qualities will include hardworking, smiley and engaging people who love working in a team. Paul has a very diverse staff base, currently employing staff from 46 different nationalities working in Paul.

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