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South African Staffing & Recruitment Industry – London is Calling

CIETT World Employment Conference 2012

The theme is Transforming our Global Brand.

REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation) is hosting the CIETT (The International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies) World Conference. This 3-day event will be held 23 – 25 May 2012 at Landmark London. It will explore market trends and developments, and will also focus on how we deal with the challenges facing our global industry.  There will be plenary presentations, along with masterclasses, and much more.

Top reasons to attend:

  • The conference programme will provide a balance between the strategic trends of the global staffing industry, whilst offering practical advice
  • You will hear from business leaders who are experts in their chosen fields
  • Insight, knowledge and thought-provoking viewpoints will be discussed and debated by our high profile speakers during main stage plenary and bespoke breakout sessions
  • Network with over 400 recruitment professionals from around the world, and share a wealth of experience and ideas
  • Meet suppliers in exhibitions. Discuss your issues, and let them showcase their latest technologies and problem solving solutions.
  • WeszMadz highly recommends you attend the CIETT2012 World Conference

So, can you afford to miss this once in a lifetime chance to visit one of the world’s great cities and learn from the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners?

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Rules intended to protect temps are having the opposite effect

As South Africa is pushing the Labour Bills into Parliament, in UK’s new Agency Worker Regulations, one of the hot issues “same pay and benefits as permanent workers” is resulting in an opposite effect. 

Extracts from The Telegraph article

Under the changes, which stem from European law, temps are entitled to the same pay and benefits as permanent workers after just 12 weeks in a job. Previously, they had to wait one year to clock up employment rights. ( SA has proposed 6months. We should be doing one year)

A Government analysis said the new rules would cost firms £1.8bn (over R10bn!) a year to implement, raising fears that cash-strapped businesses would stop hiring temps as it no longer made commercial sense. A typical small business would have to pay an extra £2,493 a year, increasing to £73,188 for larger companies. (Experts in SA have always been saying more people, if not more households will suffer as a result)

The new 12-week rule also damages temps’ flexibility to cover peaks and troughs in demand, experts said.

Scores of employers have revisited how they will use temps following the new rules, and are either recruiting fewer agency staff or urging them to waive their rights under a legal loophole. (This is one of my fears for the SA market)

Tom Hadley, policy director at the REC, said the decline in temp hiring “may in part be linked to employer uncertainty over the agency worker regulations”. (Unfortunately this has already commenced in SA without even the bills finalised)

The number of people placed in short-term jobs fell in March at the fastest rate for two-and-a-half years, research from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG revealed. (The Namibia case comes to mind. SA should bear this in mind)

SOURCE: THE TELEGRAPH

Credit to worradmu for the image

Credit to worradmu for the image