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More new agencies were established in January and February than during the same period in 2017

Geoffrey Taylor, Head of Academic Programmes, SAS UK & Ireland comments:

Opinion from Charles Hipps, CEO, WCN

Uncertainty is impacting staffing decisions, with one third of employers (34 per cent) being unsure about their short-term hiring plans for temporary agency workers, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).

Jes Breslaw, director of strategy, EMEA at Delphix

Today’s migration statistics published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a fall in NET EU migration, driven by a fall in EU citizens coming to the UK for work. Commenting, Recruitment & Employment Confederation director of policy Tom Hadley says:

By David Clift, HR Director, totaljobs:

The existing skills in HR departments can be utilised by businesses for GDPR

Today marks 100 days until GDPR comes into force. With time running out for businesses to get ready for this shift, Dean Forbes, CEO at CoreHR shares some thoughts below on steps HR should take in the next 100 days.

Adam Gordon, the CEO here at Candidate.ID, has put together this briefing because two international employers we know have applied the belt and braces standard of compliance to their candidate databases pre-GDPR on May 25th and consequently must now delete 90%+ of their candidate information. This is disastrous. Below is what he believes is the general solution.

Despite asking for pay rises as often as men, women are less likely to receive a pay increase than their male counterparts, according to research carried out by Warwick Economics.

Commenting on the proposals, Susan Ball, Head of Employers Advisory Services at national audit, tax and advisory firm, Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP, said:

What does this mean for businesses? Dean Forbes, Chief Executive Officer at CoreHR, offers his thoughts below

In today’s response to the Matthew Taylor review of modern working practices, the government has announced that there will be four consultations into what the future of the UK workforce looks like.

Commenting on the publication of the Government's response to the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy at the CIPD said: