Category: Employment
New look for Employment Grant
The Back to Work Employment Grant has been improved to encourage more employers to take on locally qualified people who have been unemployed for 12 months or more. Since its launch in May 2012, the grant, which offers employers up to £7,200 for providing eligible jobseekers with permanent or long term contracts, has helped 132 [...]
TTS recruiting more apprentices
Transport and Technical Services (TTS) is currently seeking to recruit some new apprentices as part of its ongoing programme of training local people in technical skills. TTS is offering up to eight apprenticeship posts, two in each of the following areas: electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, motor vehicle engineering and gardening and groundsmanship, for a fixed [...]
New record for Advance to Work job offers
A record number of Advance to Work trainees started work in March – beating the previous best recorded in the same month last year. This March, 22 of the employment scheme’s trainees started work following their time with the scheme. This brings the total of Advance to Work trainees offered work in 2013 to 45. [...]
Students paired with local managers in Work Shadowing scheme
FOLLOWING a series of successful interviews last month, 49 students have now been paired with managers from local companies to undertake a weeklong shadowing period over the summer, as part of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Work Shadowing scheme. The scheme, sponsored by KPMG in the Channel Islands, pairs talented year 12 students with a [...]
Recruitment process for Chairman of Committee of Inquiry into historic abuse begins
Following the decision of the States on 6th March 2013 by 43 votes to 0 to set up a Committee of Inquiry to investigate historic abuse in Jersey, the recruitment of a Chairman is now under way. The States agreed that the Chairman of the Inquiry should be a senior legally qualified person of significant [...]
British workers turn to overseas jobs market as UK wages fail to keep up with inflation
• Nearly one third (30 per cent) of British expats have moved abroad for work; up from 27 per cent in February 2012; • British expats earn more working overseas: 68 per cent of people who have moved abroad for work earn more than they did in the UK; • Financial situation for British expats [...]
Students to take part in IoD Work Shadowing interviews
OVER 50 students will be taking part in mock interviews at KPMG’s office in Jersey on 18 and 19 March, as part of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Work Shadowing scheme. The students will face three-person interview panels made up of representatives from the IoD, KPMG (the sponsor of the initiative) and Careers Jersey. The [...]
Do you know your wrongs from your rights?
The recent consultation paper issued last week by the Employment Forum on disciplinary and grievance procedures and best practice should be compulsory reading for any manager or business owner, according to Jacqui Richards of Compass HR Offshore. It’s been issued to help employers and employees understand their obligations, responsibilities and entitlements under the Employment (Jersey) [...]
Employers Needed for Institute of Directors Workshadow Scheme
Employers are being asked to put themselves and their organisations forward to take part in this year’s Institute of Directors Workshadow Scheme. The scheme, which gives Jersey’s A-level students the opportunity to experience life at the helm of a business or public sector organisation, plays a key role in helping young islanders prepare for their [...]
There is nothing ‘normal’ about retirement
When it comes to ending our working lives, there may be no such thing as a ‘normal’ retirement age, according to the employment team at leading offshore law firm, Mourant Ozannes. At a seminar held this week, Mourant Ozannes partner and head of the Jersey Employment team, Helen Ruelle set out how the landscape has [...]
