It is thought that some 500,000 temporary employment contracts could be terminated due to the Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) coming into force in October.
Work by Allen & Overy reveals that 33% of medium to large UK businesses might avoid increased costs by terminating agency worker contracts before the 1st October when the 12-week qualifying period for equal pay and benefits starts.
Robert Kelsey, author of What’s Stopping You? Why Smart People Don’t Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can, suggests some important factors to consider when you are leaving a job. The temporary job market is so heavily biased to references that leaving one role well before starting another is advice worth listening too!
Give good notice - its always good to allow your employer as much time as possible.
Work your notice - it is the least you do.
Build rather than burn bridges - You never know where your next job will come from.
Hand over docs - Leaving an excellent handover to the next employee is vital.
Honesty and integrity - Codes of
References - Bad ones will always come back to haunt you.
The exit interview - Don’t be lulled into telling home truths. They will only impact you long term.
Stay in contact - You may get the chance to go back or use the persons own network.
Sanitise your memory - Always talk of an experience positively.
The Post Office has announced that it will be hiring 18,000 extra temporary staff this Christmas. Last year they ended up hiring over 20,000 temps to cater for the extra Christmas workload and then the additional workload caused by the snowfalls. It is great temp work in a time of need in the UK.
The Report on Jobs published today by the REC and KPMG shows that permanent staff placements rose in August at a modest pace that was identical to that recorded in the previous month. Similarly, growth of temporary staff billings held broadly steady since July.
The key points in the Report this month are:
Further moderate increases in permanent placements and temporary billings
Growth of vacancies continues to ease
Weakest rise in permanent salaries for 22 months
Strongest rise in permanent candidate availability since January 2010
Although demand for staff continued to rise in August, the latest increase in overall vacancies was the slowest in nine months. Weaker rates of expansion were signalled for both permanent and temporary vacancies.
Permanent staff salaries increased only marginally and at the slowest pace for 22 months in August. Inflation of temporary staff hourly pay rates quickened to a three-month high, but remained weak compared with the survey’s historical trend.
Recruiters indicated another rise in the availability of staff during August. Permanent candidate supply improved at the fastest pace since January 2010,
For more information, visit the REC site
REC site.
SAINSBURY’S is hiring 15,000 staff in time for Christmas – a 10% boost to its workforce.
The supermarket kicked off its annual festive recruitment drive but with the offer of permanent work for many.
Around 2,100 of the 14,000 people who were employed for Christmas last year were kept on in the new year.
Roles include check-out staff and shelf stackers, with staff starting in late November.
Those interested can apply at www.sainsburys.jobs
Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/advice/jobs/2011/09/03/sainsbury-s-announces-15-000-christmas-jobs-115875-23392028/#ixzz1XZHckmFR
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