Jobbing PAYE umbrella contactors may be interested in the REC’s latest JobsOutlook report, which reveals a “marked dip” in hiring intentions vis-à-vis permanent posts. The REC’s monthly survey is based on the responses of 600 UK employers. The number of employers planning to increase their permanent workforce fell from 65% to 63% over the month, [...]
Contractors working through umbrella companies can avoid delays in starting new placements by taking health and safety training before their contracts begin, the firm HSE Passport advises. The company, as its name suggests, provides PAYE umbrella contractors with a recognised HSE ‘passport’ which shows recruiters and employers that up-to-date training in health and safety legislation [...]
Despite early forebodings about the possible negative impact of the Agency Workers Regulations on PAYE umbrella contractors, the latest evidence from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation suggests that demand for contractors and other temps remains strong. Amidst reports that January might see tens of thousands of contractors who work through umbrella companies out of work, [...]
Intrepid contractors working through umbrella companies may consider a move north of the border if they specialise in IT skills market, following the latest Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs. The Bank’s report for December reveals that temp and contractor demand remained in surprisingly good health, with billings slipping by a mere gnat’s whisker into [...]
PAYE umbrella contractors seeking new opportunities in the IT skills market in 2012 may be in for a good year, with the giant IT firm Hewlett-Packard promising to share its public sector work with small businesses and accountancy leviathan Deloitte forecasting an expansion in ‘big data’ projects over the next twelve months. Hewlett-Packard is currently [...]
Anxieties have been proliferating in numerous Tweets, blogs and even news posts that a general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR), which George Osborne may include in the March Budget, will be added to IR35 to police contractor employment status. However, according to a number of experts, the fears are totally unfounded. John Whiting, the director of the [...]
Global technology research giant Gartner has predicted that worldwide spending on information technology will rise by 3.7% in 2012, a forecast which may bring a cautious smile of optimism to the faces of many PAYE umbrella techies who make their livings through IT contracting. If the projection is borne out, IT spending will rise to [...]
Contractors working through umbrella companies may need to adjust to much shorter temporary contracts if soundings from a poll by APSCo are borne out. Thanks to the Agency Workers Regulations, which went live on 1st October last year, 29% of employers plan to end contracts before the twelve-week limit that entitles temporary staff to equal [...]
PAYE umbrella techies earning their daily bread through IT contracting may be interested in the latest trends in the IT skills market as recorded by Freelancer.com’s Fast 50 (a quarterly list of the 50 fastest growing IT jobs) for the last three months of 2011. HTML5 jobs soared by 41% on the previous quarter, hitting [...]
Banking and financial services contractors working through umbrella companies and limited companies alike have been through tough times over the last few months and the latest announcement from RBS of another job-axing round can hardly have cheered them. However, according to an industry expert, the news may not be as bad as it sounds. RBS [...]
