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Temp flexibility crucial to beating downturn
A flexible workforce plays a crucial role in business success, even in the current period of economic uncertainty and global financial crisis, according to Professor Jutta Rump, director of the Institute for Employment and Employability (IEE).

Source The Recruiter

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Free Guidance for Employers on the Prevention of 'Swine Flu' (H1N1)
Businesses and employers in general can play a key role in protecting employees' health and safety, as well as in limiting the negative impact of an outbreak on the individual and the workplace environment.

Click below for your free guide

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Skills Training for your Temporary Workforce
Stung by the negative effect of reducing core staff more businesses are now looking to the obvious solution of "a flexible workforce" as they come out of the recession.

To see how skills training can help you click below

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Factory output rises for first time in 15 months
Signs that the manufacturing industry is emerging from the worst of the recession came today as activity in the sector hit a 13-month high and output rose for the first time since March 2008.

Source timeonline

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More factories 'are freezing pay'
Tough times for the manufacturing industry mean a record number of companies are freezing salaries, a new survey indicates.

Source The BBC

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Fearful workforce claims fewer sick days
Private sector workers are taking fewer "sickies" in the recession amid rising fears that taking too much time off work might cost them their job, according to new research.

Source timesonline

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End of retirement age signalled
A review of the default retirement age, which allows employers to compel staff to retire at 65, is to be brought forward by a year, the government says.

Source The BBC

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UK road transport industry blooming despite negative forecasts
Despite all the overwhelming utterly negative forecasts that the UK road transport industry 'may not survive the economic downturn,' recent reports have shown that the road transport industry is in fact recovering rapidly

Source advantagehgv

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New legislation should not threaten temporary work in fragile jobs market
Unemployment figures released by the Office of National Statistics show a rise of 281,000 in the three months to May with the current total now 2.38 million

To find out how this could affect you read more

Source The REC

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July 2009

Welcome to the July edition of the Encore Engage, bringing you the freshest of news relating to the world of work - a magazine read by 10,000 recruiters every  month!

This Month's
Business Round-Up

 Castings has shed 350 of the 1,100 jobs at its metal processing operations in Brownhills and Derbyshire.

Castings,
Lichfield Road,
Brownhills,
West Midlands,
WS8 6JZ
Tel: n/a
www.castings.plc.uk  
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SPX Contech has undergone a management buy-out, securing the future of 95 jobs at its diecast components factory in Welshpool. SPX Contech, Buttington Cross, Buttington, Welshpool, SY21 8SL Tel: n/a
www.contech-global.com
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Birmingham Airport is looking to convert its two terminal buildings into one, as part of a strategy to expand its retail facilities and double passenger numbers to 20m over the next ten years.
Birmingham International Airport, Terminal Bldg, Birmingham, B26 3QJ
Tel: 0870 7335511
www.bhx.co.uk
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River Island is to proceed with plans to develop a new 480,000 sq ft fashion distribution centre at Magna Park in Milton Keynes by 2011. River Island, Chelsea House, Westgate, London, W5 1DR
Tel: 0870 1603201
www.riverisland.com
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DHL is closing its Landor Street logistics site in Birmingham with the loss of about 60 warehouse and driving jobs.
DHL, Orbital Park, 178 Great South West Road, Hounslow, TW4 6JS
Tel: 0870 1100300
www.dhl.co.uk
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TK Maxx is recruiting 200 seasonal staff to work at its fashion distribution warehouse in Chesterton, Staffordshire, from September. TK Maxx, 50 Clarendon Road, Watford, WS1 1TX
Tel: n/a
www.tkmaxx.com
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Wincanton has won a £40m contract to operate a container transport system between ports and Argos distribution centres.
Wincanton Logistics, Methuen Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 0WT
Tel: 01249 710000
www.wincanton.co.uk  
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Ibstock Brick is planning to close one of the kilns at its brick factory at Pensnett in the West Midlands, with the loss of up to 48 jobs.
Ibstock, Leicester Road, Ibstock, Leicestershire, LE67 6HS
Tel: 01530 261999
www.ibstock.co.uk
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Pollard Boxes has expanded its Leicester-based luxury packaging manufacturing business with the acquisition of Crusader Foil Blockers.
Pollard Boxes, Feldspar Close, Enderby, Leicester, LE19 4SD
Tel: 0116 2752666
www.pollardboxes.co.uk
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Napier Turbochargers is to shed 19 of the 159 jobs at its factory in Lincoln.
Napier Turbochargers, Ruston Hse, Waterside South, Lincoln, LN5 7FD
Tel: 01522 516688
www.napier-turbochargers.com 
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Baxi, the Derby-based boiler manufacturer, has agreed terms for a £1.4bn merger with the De Dietrich Remeha Group of the Netherlands.
Baxi, 16 Stanier Way, The Wyvern Business Park, Derby, DE21 6BF
Tel: 0870 6060780
http://www.baxi.co.uk  
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