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Happy Easter! 18/03/2008 We would like to wish all our clients and candidates a very Happy Easter! ...read more

Bosses face new penalties for employing illegal workers 17/03/2008 Did you realise that you could be fined thousands of pounds for employing an illegal migrant worker? New penalties came into force on 29 February under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 making it very expensive to ma ...read more

Do You Know A Top Temp 16/03/2008 We like to think that we supply the best temporary staff, so hope that you might like to nominate one as a top temp! The search is now on to find the UK's top temporary worker by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, and the deadline for nominations is 31 March 2008. Now in its eighth year ...read more

National Minimum Wage Rise 15/03/2008 It's been announced that the national minimum wage is to increase by 3.8 per cent from October, which will boost the pay of nearly one million workers. The rise in the adult rate, from £5.52 to £5.73 an hour, which is in line with average earnings growth, has been welcomed by business leaders who s ...read more

OUCH!! Where's the First Aid Box? 14/03/2008 Cuts and bumps inevitably happen in the workplace from time to time, but how quickly could your workers get treated? Less than six out of ten UK workers know the location of first aid kits in their place of work. According to research published by the British Red Cross, only 57 per cent of office ...read more

Top Educated employees moving abroad 13/03/2008 There appears to be a brain drain in the UK, with high numbers of highly educated people leaving the country to work overseas. An international study has revealed that more than one in ten Britons with higher-education qualifications are going to live and work abroad. The study, which was carried ...read more

New Faces at LMR 12/03/2008 Andrew Stevenson A warm welcome to Andrew Stevenson who has been appointed as our Business Development Manager. Andrew has 20 years experience in the recruitment agency and his role is to grow and develop the company including working on major national tenders and extending the engineeri ...read more

Paul Wakefield 10/03/2008 Tottenham Hotspur supporter Paul Wakefield knows his favourite football team doesn't go down well in Tyneside. But since joining the Newcastle branch at the beginning of the year he has proved his extensive experience in recruitment is putting LMR at the top of the league. "I established and ran m ...read more

Ronan Flood 09/03/2008 Our newest staff member at Wellingborough is Ronan Flood who is a very talented linguist. After spending a year in Madrid working as a financial advisor Ronan is now fluent in - Spanglish!! "I found Spanglish worked best for me when communicating with the locals," says Ronan who is heading up the ...read more

And finally..... job application howlers 08/03/2008 Our recruitment consultants see hundreds of CVs and letters of application every week from keen job hunters. But unfortunately some people just don't spend as much time as they should reading what they have written. Here are some examples to make you smile… I was involved in ruining the enti ...read more