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		<title>More employers plan to hire contractors and permies, says REC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Umbrella Company Employees and other temporary workers can look forward to more opportunities in the short and longer term, as UK employers gear up to hire more agency workers, contracting specialists and permies over the coming year. This is the chief finding of the latest REC JobsOutlook report, which regularly polls 600 employers drawn from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust in Umbrella Companies must be rebuilt after damage done by a few rogue operators, new study suggests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK’s Umbrella Companies have to urgently repair the damage done to the industry’s reputation by a few rogue operators, a new study from a self-employed payroll provider suggests. The survey polled 2,000 freelancers to sample their views and usage of Umbrella Services. Just 15.5% of the respondents were currently working as Umbrella Company Employees; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demand for permanent and contractor IT professionals approach pre-recessionary levels in Q1 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Demand for permanent and contractor IT professionals approach pre-recessionary levels in Q1 2013]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A review of first quarter hiring data for IT professionals covering the years from the start of the recession to the present makes encouraging reading for Umbrella Company Employees and permanent job-hunters alike: IT job vacancies are steadily on course to return to pre-recession levels. An extended review of first quarter hiring data over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big rise in tax avoidance enforcement activity by HMRC</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further evidence is emerging the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is aggressively ramping up its efforts to suppress tax and national insurance contribution avoidance activities. Individuals or companies who have used dubious tax minimisation methods to slash tax due on their employees’ incomes are especially in the Revenue’s line of fire. These potentially include a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall in new finance sector jobs in the capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest London Employment Monitor from Morgan McKinley reveals that new temporary/contracting and permanent jobs in the City fell in April by 5%, dropping from 6,237 in March to 5,922. This takes April’s total to 22% below that recorded at the same time last year, when new jobs totalled 7,661. The recruiter’s financial services operations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHS hirers must work closely with supply chains if A&amp;E staffing crisis is to be avoided, recruiter warns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the College of Emergency Medicine warns of a looming staffing crisis in NHS Accident and Emergency departments, prompting a prominent medical recruiter to urge NHS trusts to work closely with their specialist supply chains in order to avert disaster. John Zafar, who is chief executive of the specialist medical recruitment firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most young corporate employees want to become independent freelancers, new global survey reveals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young employees aged between 19 and 30 are hugely attracted to freelancing and flexible working, a new survey from management consulting firm Millennial Branding and global jobs marketplace oDesk reveals. The survey – Millennials and the Future of Work – polled 2,000 Generation Y employees around the world and found that they are likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How large companies wriggle out of government ban on tax avoidance to win Whitehall contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has a somewhat embarrassing issue to face today, according to a blog in the Financial Times: after assuring the FT that he would block companies that had not complied with tax rules from winning big Whitehall contracts, news has just broken that one such firm has just secured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temporary/contracting and permanent vacancies set to rise in Q2, says CIPD survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Labour Market Outlook (LMO) from the CIPD and Success Factors shows that both permanent and temporary/contracting roles will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2013, although competition for each vacancy is also on the rise. Since Q1 2013 there has been a rise of four points (from +9 to +5) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media monitoring has no place in ethical recruitment, HR director claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following recent research by recruitment giant Hays which warned against injudicious public postings on social media, an HR director has told Recruiter Magazine that social media monitoring ought not to play a part in recruitment. Stella Cheetham of the charity Dimension, which supports people with learning difficulties and autism, agrees that the personal values of [...]]]></description>
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