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.
Temporary jobs have been created for 237 young people and the long-term unemployed in Cambridgeshire after £1.5m of Government funding.
The money has been given to Cambridgeshire Together, a group of the county’s public and voluntary organisations and the temporary jobs will become available in February in tourism and leisure, community development and health and administration.
Government money will support the creation of more than a hundred jobs in Southwark. The contract jobs will last 9-12 months and all 112 of them will begin from this autumn.
“The Earn and Learn programme will teach new skills to the jobless while they are working in 112 roles provided by local businesses and organisations, including positions in administration, tourism, events, the environment and community wardens.”
Global recruitment company Manpower recently published the results to its Talent Shortage Survey. Interestingly it was Engineers that remain the most sort after individuals in the employment market.
The top 3 types of employee in short supply were engineers, skilled trade professionals and sales representatives.
In this current job short market, these are the areas to get into!
The top 10 shortages of talent are:
1. Engineers
2. Skilled trades
3. Sales representatives
4. Management/executives
5. Accounting and finance staff
6. Chefs/cooks
7. Restaurant and hotel staff
8. Machinists/machine operators
9. Technicians
10. Receptionists
PAs are being trusted with increased responsibility and are regularly handling commercially sensitive and confidential information in this tough economic climate.
Most PAs have access to information on workforce planning and over 50% handle information on redundancies, budget cuts and employee compensation.
