Recruitment firm invests in IT ahead of law change

INDUSTRIAL recruitment company gap personnel has invested more than £1m in a new IT system.

The Wrexham-based firm, which has offices in Blackburn, Blackpool, Crewe, Liverpool, Preston and Warrington, says the investment is to prepare it for new legislation which gives temporary workers the same rights as permanent employees.

The Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) becomes law next month and is a major change in the labour market.

Mark Roberts, operations director of gap personnel, said of the £1.2m upgrade: “In order for us to maintain a competitive advantage and provide major process efficiencies, it was clear that a complete renewal of our IT systems was necessary.

“We have devoted a lot of time to developing this new resource and we are confident that there is nothing else like it out there. It is a bespoke system that will enable us to implement the new regulations as smoothly as possible and provide our clients with all the information they need.”

The project involves transferring all of the firm’s IT infrastructure into a new data centre in Manchester and has been developed with Frontline Consultancy and SAFE Computing.