Jobs slashed at Robert Walters.... Take steps to preserve your IP: Allens Arthur Robinson.... UK temps a step closer to equal rights.... Demand for executive recruitment crashing: AESC.... Engagement drivers differ for men, women, young and old: Insync.... New job board targets "ethical" market.
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Sheryle Moon quits Ross Human Directions.... HJB tightening its belt through performance management, cost control.... WorkPac settles case over ex-employees' rival agency.
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Ross Human Directions has managed to hold revenue at similar levels to last year, but has foreshadowed a "moderate" decline in after tax profit in the current half year, as rising debt funding costs hit the bottom line.
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WorkPac has failed to prevent a group of former employees from setting up a competing recruitment business after the restraint clauses in their employment contracts were found to be unreasonably restrictive.
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The NSW Supreme Court has rejected an application for an injunction against four senior recruiters, which if granted could have potentially crippled Ambition's new "Ambition Global" international recruitment initiative.
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Former Hudson CEO Anne Hatton and CFO Richard Pepper are back in the recruitment business with a unique new concept in the senior executive contracting market.
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Hays has won on all counts in a court case against two of its former senior banking and finance consultants who left to join Charterhouse Partnership.
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WDScott back in the recruitment business with Market U merger.... Chandler Macleod acquires HR consulting company.... Sourcing now the key recruitment skill - RCSA.... Manpower buys Middle Eastern recruitment company.... PageUp turns 10.... Davidson Recruitment appoints executive director.... Insync Surveys names new CEO.
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The unprecedented competition for good staff is tempting recruiters and employers to overstate the benefits of jobs in their employment advertising and candidate interviews, leaving them open to increased risk of legal action, says leading employment lawyer Jacquie Seemann.
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The Queensland Supreme Court has ordered a recruitment company to pay legal costs to one of its former consultants after it failed in a bid to prevent her working for a competitor during her notice period.
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An ad hoc survey of advertisers using Jobsjobsjobs indicates the site is gradually starting to generate applications, as its backers look for a second round of funding.
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Craig Ransley's specialist mining labour hire and equipment supply company Resco Services has completed another two acquisitions to push its annual revenue above $100 million - and in other Resco news, Skilled Group CEO and major shareholder, Greg Hargrave has emerged with a 19% Resco shareholding.
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Highly-regarded former Hudson executive Andrew Staite will be back in the recruitment industry with a new business before the end of the year.
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Australia's second biggest recruitment business, Chandler Macleod, has delivered a solid half-year result, lifting sales by 17% to $388.5 million and posting strong rises in EBITDA and net profit.
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There's been an upsurge in the use of restraint clauses in recruitment industry employment contracts in recent years, but for junior consultants, they are unlikely to be enforceable, according to a leading employment law specialist.
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