This UK case (Alstom Transport v Tilson) was an appeal by the client/hirer against an Employment Tribunal decision where a limited company contractor was seen as an employee and was therefore entitled to succeed in a claim for unfair dismissal, even ...
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Date Posted: 2010-02-26
Overseas the UK Revenue HMRC has won another key victory in the courts against tycoon Robert Gaines-Cooper lost his non-resident status.Gaines-Cooper claimed the taxman had laid a "devious trap" for him by refusing him non-resid...
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Date Posted: 2010-02-17
“Contractors - are they for life” Specialist and technical skills in Engineering are now always in demand in SA and more and more these skills are being applied to the end client in ...
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Date Posted: 2010-01-26
The UK has hiked their National Insurance by 0,5%. A growing number of employees are expected to ask for greater salary sacrifice structures over the next few years, Nick Huber of Accountancy Age reports, and Businesses will try to minimise ext...
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Date Posted: 2010-01-22
The UK has hiked their National Insurance by 0,5%. A growing number of employees are expected to ask for greater salary sacrifice structures over the next few years, Nick Huber of Accountancy Age reports, and Businesses will try to minimise ext...
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Date Posted: 2010-01-22
The infamous labour broking decision which banned labour broking in Namibiahas now been overturned as anti – constitutional by a higher court! But Labour broking in SA faces bigger problems than this…. In the EU, tempor...
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Date Posted: 2009-12-17
UK Independent contractors who have lost IR35 cases have had pay up in excess of £100,000, and in the last few years cases of independent contractors working directly to end clients, the feeling in the UK is that HMRC has won ...
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Date Posted: 2009-11-04
New recent international tax cases and compliance requirements in the US and UK have indicated the deepening complexity of worldwide compliance requirements of IT and other high skill contracting. It is AWKinekt Contract House’s mission t...
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Date Posted: 2009-10-09
The Yoh Index of Technology Wages shows the top job titles in highest demand in the US – its’ based on conversations with more than 9,000 hiring managers in more than 15 US major metropolitan areas, and shows that the skills that ap...
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Date Posted: 2009-10-07
The number of contractors in the UK has grown over time to total an estimated 1.4m, according to research by industry body the Professional Contractors Group . A great many of these are expat contractors coming from outside the UK and the European Un...
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Date Posted: 2009-10-06
The European Parliament has recently approved proposals extending ‘equal treatment’ to agency workers after twelve weeks of employment. Accounting for 1.4 million or 4.5% of Britain’s workforce (30% in the State service with a...
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Date Posted: 2009-10-02
In the US some employers such as GM have become slaves to their employee benefits. We believe this will be a continuing trend in the West. Benefits started with unemployment insurance in the very early 1900’s, and now are massive, i...
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Date Posted: 2009-10-01
Cosatu voted unanimously on 24 September for an outright ban on labour broking and that this should be immediate! Also, they want no more than two successive temporary employment contracts. Labour Broker users such as parastatals Eskom and SAA ...
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Date Posted: 2009-09-29
In the continuous process of managements changes to improving the business, kaizen and lean approaches are important. These are based on many areas, but zero waste, intolerance of poor quality, and lean approaches by continual learning are important ...
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Date Posted: 2009-09-18
Its said that recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) really helps companies and there’s no doubt that the theory is brilliant, involving a an external specialist to act not just as your recruitment consultancy but, ...
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Date Posted: 2009-07-21
The post WW2 baby boom generation will have retired by 2020. Many have valuable experience and skills and want to continue work. The number of 65 yr + people working is expected to double by 2020. A 70 year old still- working US chairman o...
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Date Posted: 2009-07-21
We reported last year the Namibian court decision that banned labour broking.The court in this case held that labour broking was consistent with “the lettingand hiring of persons as if they were chattels”. Labour brokers ...
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Date Posted: 2009-03-19
Globally, management by project is accepted as the way to institute change. How does one equip these project offices and programmes more efficiently? The LRA was not developed for short term employment, and the CCMA can rear it’s head even in v...
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Date Posted: 2009-03-19
The expensive and highly legislated South African high-skills contracting market AW Kinekt ‘s new skill provision profile makes it cheaper to retain time/task based skills in time and task format than to hire employees.Corporate HR costs have s...
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Date Posted: 2008-12-02
The international war for talent is leading to massive international movements of high skills. China's trying to attract back the cream of the Chinese diaspora who left due to communism, London looks to attract the best with tax mitigation measur...
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Date Posted: 2008-09-03
Corporate supply chain blockage is regarded as the most dangerous corporate risk to earnings in FM Globals recent worldwide survey. However for South African executives, skills supply chain risk may be an even more important risk to manage. Says Mark...
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Date Posted: 2008-08-19
Follow the world wide trend of contracting top skills. Resources available NOW in Project Management, Information Technology, Engineering and Financial. AWKinekt Contract House specialises in supplying excellent...
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Date Posted: 2008-07-30
Recently finance minister Trevor Manuel commended SARS staff for having exceeded the revenue target for the past tax year,at the launch of the 2008 filing season. "When I speak to my international colleagues, they can't match the figures,&qu...
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Date Posted: 2008-07-14
Project Management jobs and opportunities in Engineering in Cape Town and indeed Africa are presently extraordinarily attractive says Elmar Roberg, President of PMSA. But a year a go this was not the case he adds. He notes in ENgineering News that PM...
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Date Posted: 2008-05-21
Highly skilled South Africans are moving to contracting in droves.....says Emeldah Majaya of AWKinekt Contract House, doyenne of Cape HR," High earning employees don't see value in the LRA, UIF, in SDL or even in corporate employee benefits ...
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Date Posted: 2008-05-21
The UK's not-for-profit Professional Contractors Group, which protects and promotes the interests of contractors, states of the 1430 IR35 cases involving contractors who used the PCG, only three have been won by the UK's Inland Revenue.This, ...
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Date Posted: 2008-04-29
In this weeks Mining Weekly COC President Con Faucconnier notes that the average age of a SA artisan is 56 years. In the 70's 30000 artisans were trained annually. Now only 3500 are trained,even with SA having 40% unemployment. Impala Plats' ...
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Date Posted: 2008-04-22
In this week's Mining Weekly COC President Con Faucconnier notes that the average age of a SA artisan is 56 years. In the 70's SA trained 30,000 artisans annually. Now only 3,500 p/a are trained, even with SA having 40% unemployment. Im...
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Date Posted: 2008-04-16
www.awsolutions.co.za Skills Shortage in SA? Is there such a skills shortage in SA? The Employment Equity Chief Jimmy Manyi said last year that there is not. Local Government performance shows that affirmative action has resulted in a mess ...
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Date Posted: 2008-03-28
In an Arras People survey undertaken in 2006, on a sample of 1,000 people working in the discipline in the UK, looking at the change between 2000 and 2005. This survey showed big shifts in employment - a swing to contracting, downward pressure on pay...
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Date Posted: 2008-03-26
Here are some tips on managing multicultural teams. In November 2006 Jeanne Brett director of the Dispute Resolution Research Center at the US' Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management was asked by Computerworld Magazine; ...
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Date Posted: 2008-03-18
Mark Anderson GM of Cape based high skill contract provider AWKinekt Contract House says that highly skilled IT and Engineering people don't want open ended LRA service contract jobs in Cape Town and Johannesburg - they prefer to work via sophi...
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Date Posted: 2008-03-13
Good news for IT companies, IT professionals, IT Consultants and IT Contractors. Seacom, the privately owned undersea cable project, unveiled its pricing structure, which is expected to reduce international bandwidth prices by up to 80 percent...
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Date Posted: 2008-03-12
Jeffrey Immelt CEO of General Electric, in the June 2006 issue of HarvardBusiness Review was talking about key projects that GE needs to run if itis to keep its edge. In particular big, $100 million projects. "We don't,"said Immel...
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Date Posted: 2008-03-06
A UK survey by Harvey Nash of more than 650 UK CIOs and senior technology professionals revealed that 10% felt their role was becoming less strategic and 58% expect to have moved jobs in the next two years.The survey, conducted in partnership with PA...
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Date Posted: 2008-02-27
Gartner EXP Worldwide Survey of 1,500 CIOs Shows 85 Percent of CIOs Expect "Significant change" over the next three years in the field of replacement of Generic IT with distinctive solutions that drive enterprise client service - and offer ...
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Date Posted: 2008-02-19
Incentives to move employment, including long dated options and initial cash lump sums being offered to prospective employees are becoming more common. And disincentives such as restraints and long notice period are being inserted into new Service Co...
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Date Posted: 2008-02-13
Retirement Crunch for UK Contractors? The UK's Pension Commission points out that a plummeting birth rate is leading to a fast shrinking working population with the prospects of a much longer life - now IT contractors in the UK are facing the pro...
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Date Posted: 2008-02-08
Top Earning Jobs in Cape Town - or Contracting? From the ITWeb/CareerWeb 2007 IT Salary Survey the top earner spot amongcontractors was shared by a disaster recovery specialist and a software architect,who both earn a total of R1 440 000 a year...
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Date Posted: 2008-01-29
Emigration is effecting Natal Skills . . . but is emigration really affecting jobs in Cape Town. The Natal Mercury reported today that the SA Inst of Race Relations estimates one million SA whites have emigrated, and also reported that Stuttaford Van...
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Date Posted: 2008-01-24
Service and SoftwareTalking about IT Jobs in Cape Town . . . . Bringing back the old fashioned human element, with the emphasis on "human", into the work environment develops corporate success. Mark Shuttleworth, at the recent Govtech pres...
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Date Posted: 2008-01-21
Jobs in Cape Town - ICT Skill Shortages an Issue?In ITWeb (Oct 2007 Edition) journalist Paul Furber explored the skills issue with local experts. The consensus was that there was indeed an issue and a skill shortage, a shortage of jobs in Cape ...
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Date Posted: 2008-01-15
Cape Town has been named as one of the top 21 intelligent communities and is confident of making it into the top seven list.The Intelligent Communities Forum (ICF), a New York-based think tank thatresearches and promotes the broadband economy, placed...
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Date Posted: 2008-01-14
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact" buttons above for more info. International contracting - better than Cape Town?The majority of European countries have tax rates vastly in excess of S...
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Date Posted: 2007-12-03
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact" buttons above for more info. AW Kinekt's View on Public Private Partnerships Contracting via provision of teams of skills in project format is definit...
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Date Posted: 2007-11-24
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Experienced Contracting House specialists The AWKinekt Team has years of experience across diverse industries in contractin...
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Date Posted: 2007-11-19
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Contractors: Will this happen in South Africa?New Zealand Telecom calls on Indian contractors - Breaking NewsThe Dominio...
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Date Posted: 2007-11-13
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Making Contracting easy for Corporates AWKinekt makes contracting easy and cost-effective for corporate clients...
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Date Posted: 2007-11-08
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Exciting Contracting Positions available with AW Kinekt Contract House in beautiful Cape Town Latest contracti...
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Date Posted: 2007-11-02
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Contractors deserve to have it easy A career in contracting should be profitable and a breeze. Does your contracting company...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-30
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Managing Workplace Stress and Skills delivery through more effective contracting With the AWKinekt formula, contractors CAN...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-27
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Why it makes sense for corporates to contract skills: Corporates are moving internationally to inserting skill...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-22
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Sourcing contractors from our database The majority of Corporates have realised that contracting is the most effective met...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-19
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. The Outsourcing Trend is unstoppable The outsourcing industry is a significantly large sector in the South African economy,...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-17
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. AWK Launches Contractor Appraisal System AWKinekt is proud to announce that from their experience gained from over 10 years ...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-11
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Getting people to work . . . . more effectively AW Kinekt Contract House provides skilled contractors. It’s a one che...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-09
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Exciting Contracting Positions available with AW Kinekt Contract House in beautiful Cape Town Latest contracting positions...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-05
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Executive Summaries of some of AWKinekt's highly skilled contractors! Peter has through the years, built up a wealth of ...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-05
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Evaluating Contracting Options Industries have four options. Below we analyse the consequences of each option 1. The org...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-03
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. Time-tested South African Contract House. AW Kinekt was created in 1998 as an advanced contracting vehicle to SA orporate...
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Date Posted: 2007-10-01
We can solve your Skills Shortfall?. . .Click "Website" or the "Contact Me" buttons above for more info. By 2015 contractors and freelancers could make up as much as 50% of the white-collar workf...
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Date Posted: 2007-09-16
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