Following the Treasury's announcement of their proposals to tackle false self employment in construction Jason Campbell, Chair of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's Construction Group provides comment.

The REC has continued to increase its growing media profile over the past month with stories appearing in the national press including the two leading “red tops”, the Daily Mirror and The Sun.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation is warning members and jobseekers to beware of a bogus recruitment agency which has been set up in the REC’s name.

The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) has confirmed to the REC that the current Protection of Vulnerable Adults Act (PoVA) First and List 99 ‘quick-checking’ facilities will remain in place until July 2010, following the launch of the Vetting and Barring Scheme this October.

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.

The REC has pledged its support to working with Government to prevent unethical businesses in the construction sector putting workers’ lives at risk through bad practice.

The REC has welcomed changes put forward by the Government for the social care system in its new consultation paper “Shaping the Future of Care Together.”

REC member Advanced Resource Managers has been appointed by the Department of Health and NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA) as one of the suppliers on the Commercial Resource Framework.

The REC will be taking forward the industry’s message on public procurement issues at today’s launch of a high-profile report by the CBI and the Local Government Association (LGA).

The Government today launched a new paper "Building a society for all ages", a key strategy of which sets out to examine how people can be best supported if they decide to work for longer.