A WA labour hire company has lost a legal battle to stop a former contractor from taking up direct employment with the client he had been on-hired to, in a case which once again highlights the need for recruiters to exercise care when drafting restraint clauses.
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Former Michael Page Asia-Pacific boss and one of Australia's most experienced recruitment executives, Chris Adams, has resigned from Derwent Executive - and in other news, two senior finance and banking recruiters have left Charterhouse to establish the Sydney office of growing Perth-based recruitment company Mars Recruitment.
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SEEK cautious on prospects for 2010.... Restraint cases up during the downturn: Harmers.... Total Staffing merger not yet tied up.... Can't give pay rises? Talk to your staff: Robert Half.... RCSA offers discount on InterviewGold to members.
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The simultaneous arrival of the global financial crisis and Australia's new Fair Work legislation will inevitably lead to a rapid increase in litigation against employers, says industrial relations expert and Landers & Rogers Lawyers partner Derek Humphery-Smith.
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Labour hire company Integrated has lost its bid for an injunction restraining a former staffer, who started working for a competing company shortly before a key Integrated client switched to that competitor.
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Walker Hamill founder back in business and looking for expansion.... We don't pay kick-backs: CXC Global.
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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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