The number of permanent jobs available in April was up 90 per cent year-on-year, as the UK got ready to emerge from more than a year of coronavirus restrictions.
Return to physical Right to Work checks delayed Published:
13 May 2021 The UK government has pushed back the reintroduction of physical Right to Work checks to 21 June 2021.
The temporary measures were originally due to end earlier on 16 May, however, recruitment organisations including the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) urged the government to extend it.
The APSCo argued the return to physical checks was being left too late and would have a significant impact on the recruitment process for the remainder of the pandemic.
Tania Bowers, APSCo’s legal counsel and head of public policy, said the short deadline for the return to in-person checks was a real concern given that we are expecting the government ‘work from home if you can’ advice to remain in place into June .
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As Sammons Pensions Recruitment publishes its 2020 Salary Survey, Sarah Bergin-McCarthy finds the current climate is not hampering regrowth.
Sammons Pensions Recruitment has published its 19th annual salary survey, which is based on research of the pensions industry, and looks at trends and opinions across salaries, bonuses, benefit packages and recruitment issues.
The UK recruitment backdrop
Let us begin by putting recruitment in the pensions industry into the broader UK-wide employment perspective. The Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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Currently the Government has not outlined how much the fourth SEISS grant will be worth.
In addition, the Government has not announced when applications for the fourth grant will open, or if the eligibility criteria may change.
The Government has paid out billions in grants to eligible self-employed people over the course of the pandemic.
SEISS deadline: Many businesses have had to close during the third national lockdown in England (Image: GETTY)
However swathes of self-employed individuals have not been included in the SEISS eligibility criteria, meaning some have had to rely on loans to get through the crisis.
The Government’s SEISS web page currently states further details of the fourth SEISS grant will be set out “in due course”, leaving many unsure about what support may be available while lockdown continues.