Britain’s leading technology companies have set aside their rivalries to form a coalition willing the creation of 250,000 IT jobs within the next decade.

They said the employment booster to the nation’s “IP-rich” IT sector was vital for the economy, given the decline of manufacturing and the “shock” to financial services. (more…)

The tourist attraction is looking for a new witch to teach visitors about witchcraft and magic after its previous employee retired.

It comes with a salary of £50,000 pro rata based on work during school holidays and at weekends. (more…)

Disputes between contractors, clients, agencies and umbrella companies are growing in number and becoming increasingly intense, as each player in the contract food-chain tries to hold on to cash as the recession bottoms out.

According to a report in Contracting Matters, disputes between umbrella-contractors and their clients and agencies have risen four-fold on last year’s figures. And Rob Crossland, Managing Director of professional business services provider Parasol, says the effects are wide ranging. (more…)

The subject of IR35 was raised again in the Commons last month, with a Government Minister refusing to reveal how many IR35 investigations were launched over the past five years. (more…)

Contractors supplying services to public authorities will not face requests under the Freedom of Information Act, in line with demands from the business community.

Heading off the prospect of extra costs for large and small government suppliers alike, policy makers said contractors would remain outside the scope of the 2005 legislation. (more…)

Indications are that limited company contractors will be excluded from the Agency Workers Directive, whereas umbrella company contractors will be covered by the directive. This information is based on the final consultation meeting at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in London yesterday, to which ContractorCalculator’s CEO, Dave Chaplin, was invited. (more…)

The advantages that technical worker Andrew Tilson told an employment tribunal that he perceived in operating the way he did cannot be revealed without scrutinising his likely tax position. But for Silversun Solutions Ltd, he would be seen as an agency worker contracted under a contract for services (self-employed) and the tax/NICS agency legislation would kick in, which would mean that the agency should deduct PAYE and NIC from all payments to Mr Tilson. As an agency worker he would not be able to claim any travel and subsistence expenses. With Silversun in the chain as a limited company, the agency would not be required to make any deductions from the payments it made to Silversun. All fairly straightforward so far. (more…)

UK taxpayers with overseas bank accounts who come clean on their offshore income, gains and unpaid liabilities will face smaller cash penalties than those who keep quiet.

Announcing the terms of its new disclosure opportunity, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs said affected taxpayers have until before the end of October to fess up. (more…)

Executive Search & Selection, or Head Hunting as it is alternatively known, is emerging as one of the most in-demand executive recruitment services provided by Jenrick CPI, leading IT recruitment agency and a division of the Award Winning Jenrick Recruitment Group. (more…)

A landmark ruling in which a sub-contractor was deemed to be an employee could affect the employment status and legal rights of thousands of other so-called sub-contractors working in the UK.

The ruling has implications for hundreds of workers in the transport industry generally, as well as workers in a number of other sectors where contract labour is traditionally used such as large-scale construction projects like the Olympic site in east London, together with the NHS, education, IT and banking sectors. (more…)