Dealing with the growing instances of fraud will be key to the growth of the technology industry, a leading expert told members of the REC's Technology Sector Group.

Unemployment in the UK has risen yet again to 2.26 million in the first three months of 2009, the highest total since November 1996.

The REC has told the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), the body set up to advise the Home Office on immigration policy, that access to the UK labour market needs to be flexible to help get the economy out of the recession.

In its response to the consultation launched by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the REC has stressed that Regulation 32 -which allows limited companies to opt out of the provisions of the Employment Agencies Act - must remain.

The REC has told the Government to think long and hard before introducing measures which could damage the flexibility of the UK labour market.

Launching on 25th June 2009, The REC’s Institute of Recruitment Professionals has been created to enable all of your staff to identify themselves as Professionals. As part of the REC, the Institute of Recruitment Professionals will help you prove to your clients that their business is in safe hands and so enhance your business credentials.

From Mad Hatters to musclemen to MPs: there has been no end to the varied activities which REC members have been organising to mark National Temporary Workers Week.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has warned 18 recruitment agencies supplying drivers in the West Midlands that they are not up to scratch.

The Government has announced the creation of the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, created through a merger of BERR (Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) and DIUS (Innovation, Universities and Skills).

The REC's 2008 Annual Complaints Report highlights its continuous crackdown on member agencies found in non-compliance with its ten point Code of Professional Practice.