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Date: 20 January, 2012
The Association of Recruitment Consultancies has welcomed the decision by the REC not to include a prohibition on supply teacher agencies from using the ‘professions’ exemption within the Agency Workers Regulations. Adrian Marlowe, chairman of the ARC, said “Having pursued the issue with both the Department for Education and the ...
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Date: 02 December, 2011
Vince Cable last week announced that a review of the regulatory regime in the recruitment sector will take place in the spring of 2012 and address the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (“Conduct Regulations”). This has been followed by an announcement by the Business Minister Ed ...
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Date: 30 November, 2011
The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has received a response from the Department for Education (DfE) clarifying the department’s interpretation of R.3(2) of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), which allows professionals to be exempted from scope of the AWR. This follows the publication of amended guidance for teachers on the ...
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Date: 14 November, 2011
As private sector businesses explore solutions to the AWR is the public sector doing the same? No, not if the Department for Education position is an indicator, says Adrian Marlowe, chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies. Now that the Agency Workers Regulations are in force, understandably both agencies’ and ...
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Date: 01 August, 2011
The recent comments of Lord Justice Mummery of the Court of Appeal made in relation to the employment tribunal service (ETS) are to be welcomed, says the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC). It is understood that LJ Mummery, previously president of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, in the course of delivering ...