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Strategic management of the workforce has become a boardroom issue as organisations look to flex this substantial area of
their cost-base and save tax. Increasing reliance on temp, agency and contract workers and consultants, coupled with increased
recruitment regulation and tightening tax regimes, means this area has the potential to become a serious burden if you get
it wrong.
Osborne Clarke's recruitment sector team has experience of managing all these issues for clients across the world of agency
and contract workers. Our specialist advisers have a wealth of knowledge in the spectrum of issues facing these recruiters
including amongst many others:
- Mergers and acquisitions in the sector
- International recruitment process outsourcing, vendor management and managed services
- Direct sourcing, networking sites and other candidate attraction mechanisms
- Safe tax planning with agency and contract workers
- New umbrella and other payroll arrangements
- Employment and discrimination claims
- Restrictive covenant enforcement
- The Agency Workers Directive
We also advise many of the trade associations and industry bodies in this sector, work closely with HMRC and BIS on policy
issues and speak regularly at industry events.
Kevin Barrow
t +44 20 7105 7030
kevin.barrow@osborneclarke.com
Frances Lewis
t +44 (0)20 7105 7032
frances.lewis@osborneclarke.com