REC Welcomes Reed as a Corporate Member

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has announced that leading recruitment company Reed has joined its membership.

The Reed family of companies employs more than 4,000 people in 400 offices throughout the UK, with overseas offices in Australia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Poland, Qatar and Singapore, Reed operates over 30 specialist recruitment divisions.

Reed's website, reed.co.uk, receives more than 1.2 million job applications per month across a wide range of sectors making it the largest private sector jobsite in the UK.

Explaining why Reed has become a member of the REC, Chairman James Reed said:

“The REC is recruitment's biggest lobbying voice in the UK and by joining Reed will increase its ability to influence the government on legislation affecting our industry, such as the new Agency Workers Directive. ”

REC Chief Executive Kevin Green said:

“We very much welcome the arrival of the Reed family of companies into our membership and look forward to working closely with them on a range of issues which currently affect the recruitment industry.

Their joining means we now have over 80 per cent of the UK's top 100 recruitment organisations in our membership.”

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For further information, please call Alison Henderson, Press Manager, the REC, 020 7009 or for Reed, Seema Lalloo, 020 7431 8146.

Notes for Editors:

About the REC
The REC is the representative body for the UK's £26.6 billion private recruitment and staffing industry with a membership comprising more than 8,000 corporate businesses and over 6,000 recruitment consultants. All members must abide by a Code of Professional Practice.

About Reed
Reed is the UK's leading independent specialist provider of temporary, contract and permanent recruitment solutions. Assisting jobseekers and Employers since 1960, Reed employs more than 4,000 people in 400 offices throughout the UK, with overseas offices including Australia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Poland, Qatar and Singapore. Its industry-leading website, reed.co.uk regularly receives over 1.2 million job applications per month. During 2007, Reed won the Sustainable City Award for Resource Conservation and continues to maintain its Carbon Neutral (R) status, while committed to being Carbon Responsible.

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