Industry News

  • Revised DfE guidance

    Date: 28 November, 2011

    The Department for Education has revised its Agency Workers Regulations guidance, first issued in August 2011, to state its view that teachers cannot be outside the scope of the AWR using the professions exclusion at R.3(2). This view is made on the basis that “the relationship between hirers and agency ...

  • The ARC criticises Telegraph reporting on the AWR

    Date: 30 August, 2011

    There are a number of issues arising from the Telegraph article of 25th August headed New EU job rights 'will derail British recovery' asserts the Association of Recruitment Consultancies ( ARC). Maintaining that the nature and scope of the regulations is misrepresented, the ARC complains that the statement “...

  • Reed Employment Limited v HMRC – Developments in the VAT treatment of Employment Businesses

    Date: 30 August, 2011

    HMRC has published a VAT bulletin on the ruling of the First Tier Tax Tribunal in the matter of Reed Employment Limited v HMRC. The bulletin outlines the Revenue’s position in the light of the ruling, namely that it has no wider implications as the case referred to a ...

  • Agency Workers Regulations are amended

    Date: 10 August, 2011

    The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) welcomes the amendments to the Agency Workers Regulations. Contained in the Agency Workers (Amendment) Regulations 2011 the amendments correct a drafting error in Regulation 14 of the original Agency Workers Regulations 2010 and add in more detail as to what is required to set ...

  • Adrian Marlowe to represent SME organisations

    Date: 06 December, 2010

    Adrian Marlowe, Chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies, has been appointed as one of two UK representatives to Europe for the SME lobbying group, the Genesis Initiative. The Genesis Initiative was formed to improve the quality of the debate on SMEs in the UK and Europe and create economic ...

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