News
May 2009
nd of year update
FPS Members will receive their P60 no later than the 31st of May, in line with HMRC guidelines. For those members who have claimed expenses and earned £8,500 or more during this tax year, they will...
Increase in National Minimum Wage
The UK Government has announced new national minimum wage rates which will be effective from 1stOctober 2009. Workers aged 22 and over will receive an increase from £5.73 to £5.80 an hour, ...
FPS co-sponsors Social Care and Nursing markets research
FPS, together with sister company in the Charterhouse Group - PayDynamics, has been invited by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) to sponsor its Nursing and Social Care Group's latest...
March 2009
IR35 ten years old
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the budget that announced the IR35 regulations. The original intention of IR35 was to prevent the growing practice of employees leaving their permanent positions...
February 2009
UK BMW Mini layoffs spark outrage
BMW Mini laid off agency workers at the start of this week with just an hour's notice. The headlinesscreamed out that the notice period was simply unacceptable. Although we would agree that ...
Noose tightens for managed service companies
We attended a Lawspeed recruitment conference this week; it's always good to get the latest gen thinking about the challenges facing the recruitment industry so we can ensure...
Love Temping?
Here at FPS we realise the credit crunch is upon us so what better way to cheer you up than present you with a £25.00 voucher of your choice to treat yourself! The catch?! There isn't one. Really...
January 2009
Contractors still need umbrellas
ContractorCalculator has published an interesting article which suggests that more contractors will look to run their own companies and the contracting world will start to desert ...
December 2008
Merry Xmas for Amazon temps?
The Times broke a story about tough times for temps working for Amazon over the busy run up to Christmas recently. Apparently temporary staff work seven days a week and risk the sack if they...
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