Chandler Macleod boosts executive recruitment team; Ambit sets up national IT sales and marketing recruitment practice; Adecco launches new online OHS initiative; and women want paid maternity leave, not baby bonus. read more
Queensland labour hire company, Head Hunters Recruitment Specialists, has succeeded in switching most of its 150-strong on-hire workforce to non-union individual Australian Workplace Agreements after a union challenge to its company wide enterprise agreement. read more
Drake Personnel has confirmed it will seek an independent arbitration of a finding by the RCSA National Ethics Committee following a complaint lodged against it by Catalyst Recruitment. read more
An important legal decision has sounded a warning to labour hire employers that if they can't provide induction, training and supervision to their on-hire workers, they should remove them from the host employer's workplace. read more
Large national employers and labour hire companies are holding out some hope that the Productivity Commission's inquiry into National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks will, at the minimum, improve consistency between the State and Territory schemes. read more
Work-life balance critical for recruitment and retention; Best International offering referral fee; New live chat recruitment application; Barriers to entry growing in recruitment says Skilled. read more
An important dismissal case has clarified that if labour hire companies are not clearly in control of the employment relationship, their on-hire workers will be held to be employed by the host employer. read more
Integrated Workforce has benefited from better conditions in its core blue-collar workforce division as well as from strong revenues flowing from its newly-acquired marine business in the six months to December. read more