Industry News

  • KPMG/REC report highlights an uncomfortable reality

    Date: 10 May, 2012

    The latest KPMG.REC report on jobs, which tells us that unemployment is continuing to rise despite a small increase in permanent placements, signals an end to the myth that regulation does not stifle growth. Historically the temping industry has worked well to help employers, never more so than at times ...

  • 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 ...

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