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• Posted 7 days ago

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to-day operation of the bureau, increa...

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• Posted 20 days ago

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential.    In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to-day operation of the bureau, in...

• Posted 25 days ago

​ Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential.    In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to-day operation of the bureau, ...

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Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential   In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to-day operation of the bureau, incr...

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential   Hours available: 30-37.5    In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to-day o...

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential  In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to-day operation of the bureau, incre...

• Posted 2 months ago

  Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential   This is a part time posiition   In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to...

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• Posted 5 months ago

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential   This role is 16 -37.5 hours available and can be a seasonal temporary role or permanent contract.   In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service,...

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential   This is a part time role at 22.5 hours available as a temporary or permanent position.   In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making eac...

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential.  In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel special, whilst dealing with the day-to-day operation of the bureau, incr...

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• Posted 6 months ago

Competitive salary with unlimited bonus potential   This is a part time role available as a seasonal or permanent position.   In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the profitability of the foreign exchange bureau. You will offer exceptional customer service, making each customer feel...

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Hays set to reveal profit slump amid tough recruitment market

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Hays is set to be the latest recruiter to reveal lower profits in the face of a challenging hiring market next week.

The FTSE 250 commercial recruitment firm has already warned it was set for a “subdued summer” amid cost-cutting across the business to bolster its finances for the longer-term.

Investors will be hoping that falling interest rates and improving optimism among firms could improve the labour market outlook when Hays updates the market with a full-year trading update on Thursday, August 22.

Shares in the company are currently 14 per cent lower for the year, after a bruising 2024 so far for the recruitment sector as a whole.

The sector saw significant growth following the Covid-19 pandemic, with the tech sector leading a surge in hiring and increases in wage offers helping to attract new candidates.

However, cost-cutting across industries including tech, caution over hiring from firms and potential candidates being reluctant to move jobs have hit recruitment firms hard .

In its previous update last month, Hays said it expected profits to be just below its guidance after a slump in net fees over the latest quarter.

Hays chief executive Dirk Hahn told shareholders in July that the market remained “challenging”, with lower levels of confidence across companies meaning they took longer to hire people for roles.

It also indicated that recent trading was hampered by the “negative effects” of elections in the UK and France.

As a result, the company is expected to post operating profits of £105m for the year to June.

This represents a significant fall from the £197m operating profit it delivered the previous year.

The slump in profits came despite heavy cost-cutting, with the firm slashing annual costs by £60m in a programme which saw it close or merge 12 of its offices in the latest quarter.

Sanjay Vidyarthi, research analyst at Panmure Liberum, said the company has a “mountain to climb” after recent weak trading.

He added: “There is a lot to be done on regional productivity and cost rationalisation to achieve management’s conversion rate targets.”

The update comes after major rivals PageGroup and Robert Walters both pointed towards weakness in the sector.

Last week, PageGroup revealed that its profits for the past six months fell by more-than-half due to a reduction in new job vacancies.

Meanwhile, at the start of August, Robert Walter said net fee income slid by 18 per cent as challenges in the labour market endured longer than previously expected.

Henry Saker-Clark, PA Deputy Business Editor

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Months after Hays school bus crash, families struggle with medical, therapy costs

When church camp lets out early for Water Day, Caleb Jimenez Martinez is just like his friends. 

He runs through a cloud of soap bubbles and ducks his head under the torrent of a hose. He bobs in line while he waits to climb a water slide. He trots to his older brother on the swing set. 

But when the hour has passed and the water has dried off his skin, his mother, Laura Martinez, straps him into his booster seat, and Caleb becomes a bit less like his friends. He has a bimonthly therapy session. 

Caleb was among the 44 students and 12 adults on the Hays school district bus that collided with a concrete pump truck on March 22. He survived with minor physical injuries, but Laura Martinez isn’t sure that means he is unscathed. Like other Tom Green Elementary School parents, she has sought therapy services for her child. And, like many parents, she has found herself shouldering many of the costs for her family’s recovery. 

With a large number of victims and a limited compensation pool, many families appear unlikely to receive money to pay for the services they seek. The largest initial source of compensation, the concrete truck company’s insurance policy, was distributed among the families of the crash’s two casualties. Other families have spent the last four months turning to a hodgepodge of other sources — such as their own insurance, state programs and possible civil litigation — to pay for the physical and mental health care for their children and themselves.

For the families, there is no clear path ahead. 

A fatal field trip: Texas bus crash shattered victims' lives, revealed regulatory lapses

Fretting, or anticipating

The Tom Green students — all preschoolers and their teachers — were traveling back on Texas 21 from a field trip at Capital of Texas Zoo in Bastrop County when a concrete pump truck driven by Jerry Hernandez collided with the bus’s left side. 

The bus rolled over and the pump truck collided with a car traveling behind the bus. The wreck killed 5-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya and Ryan Wallace, a 33-year-old University of Texas graduate student driving behind the bus. Hernandez faces charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in their deaths.

It was the deadliest wreck involving a school bus in almost a decade. 

In the months after March 22, many of the parents found themselves studying their children’s behavior. 

Laura Martinez observed Caleb develop a habit of closing himself in the closet with a stuffed animal as part of a game he described as “travel.” She was also surprised to find a drawing in her son’s backpack that showed the crash, and the frequency with which he brought up the subject of death. 

Kim Elder fretted over how her son Frankie Ayala kept quiet about that day’s events until he responded to strangers’ questions by describing injured or dead bus passengers. 

Victoria Capuchino observed her daughter, Gloria Rea, struggle to sleep. Gloria had previously told her that thinking about her dead classmate made her sad. Victoria wondered if the two were connected. 

“Is it bad? Is it her just being a silly toddler? I can’t tell. She’s a kid,” Capuchino said. “I’m not a professional, but I’m a parent, and I can tell things have changed from that day.” 

To help their children process the incident, the mothers looked toward mental health services. Dwelling on it, each feared, could create lasting emotional issues for their children.  

The Hays school district offered mental health services after the crash to the families affected. The Tom Green Elementary administration brought in licensed counselors and therapy dogs for the preschoolers and therapists for the parents. Families were able to use these services into the summer, district counseling head Maritza Gonzalez said. 

However, the three mothers who spoke with the American-Statesman looked for private practitioners. Their search was prompted by dissatisfaction or confusion over the school’s services. Each also hoped a different therapist would dedicate more time and attention to their children. 

Capuchino was the first to meet a dead end. The $150-per-session price tag for her daughter was too much, along with child care, car, food and rent costs for the single mother. 

Laura Martinez and Elder selected therapists. Both said they tried to prioritize their child’s health and hoped to resolve financial costs later.

But Martinez and her husband, Eduardo Jimenez, soon confronted the cost barrier, after about a month of therapy for Caleb. 

Since last fall, the family has had to tighten its purse strings as Jimenez’s construction business has struggled to earn contracts. The family faced a financial scare shortly after the crash when its limited insurance policy wouldn’t cover injections for Eduardo Jimenez’s debilitating cirrhosis outbreak. An unexpected series of benefit cards offered by the hospital surprisingly paid the difference. 

But the family soon faced $2,300 of Caleb’s uncovered medical bills from the crash. They also kept up with credit card debt payments. 

So, Laura Martinez, a stay-at-home mother, canceled Caleb’s sessions. She also stopped her own, which she had begun after the crash evoked a relapse in her anxiety and depression. 

Elder carried on. Her lawyer loaned her the money for the first sessions. During the first three months, the sessions cost about $1,500. She expects the total bill to surpass $3,000 once her son completes the recommended 3½ more months. As a single mother of three who currently works in collections, Elder said she will try to pay using her car insurance policy and her savings.

“I don’t feel like I make enough money for everything I have to pay for,” she said.

Where’s the money? 

Many victims and victims’ parents initially hoped for a personal injury payment from the FJM Concrete Pumping, the company that employed driver Hernandez and owned the truck involved in the crash, as well as from Hernandez. In the months after the wreck, lawyers representing at least a dozen of the victims and their families filed cases against the two. 

Yet compensation through this avenue has come to appear increasingly unlikely, lawyers representing victims and their families said.

FJM carried a $500,000 insurance policy on Hernandez’s truck. 

The company's insurance provider paid that money to the families of the two victims killed in the crash, several lawyers involved in the case said. Emilio Lopez Macias, a lawyer representing Laura Martinez, told the Statesman that the insurance provider has full discretion over how to allocate policy money to victims. 

Hernandez's attorney, Justin Fohn, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Mark Macias, a lawyer representing Martinez, declined to comment.

Why $500,000? 

The $500,000 policy has appeared small to the Tom Green families who won’t be able to access any of it. Many have complained that the state should increase that minimum to account for situations with large groups of victims. 

The amount could have been even smaller. 

Texas law requires a $500,000 insurance minimum for most large commercial vehicles similar in weight and safety classification to a concrete pump truck. Large commercial buses, moving trucks and 18-wheelers are all among the vehicles that must meet this requirement if they operate within state lines. It’s less than the $750,000 federal requirement for their interstate counterparts. 

But a concrete pump truck doesn’t even require a $500,000 policy. 

Though a concrete pump truck can weigh about 10 times more than a sedan, its operator is only required to carry the state automobile personal injury liability minimum totaling $60,000 , according to Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Sheridan Nolan. 

That’s because Texas code exempts intrastate concrete pump trucks and a small number of other commercial vehicles — like drill rig trucks and cotton module trucks — from many regulations. Besides liability minimums, these vehicles also do not have to comply with certain safety regulations, like hours-of-service limits. 

FJM could have had a smaller policy on the truck, meaning an even smaller payout for the families of the deceased. 

Texas Trucking Association President John Esparza said the law was put in place in part because these vehicles often go between job sites and don't drive as many miles as other large commercial vehicles.

It is a legal discrepancy that Jim Kelly, the personal injury lawyer representing Elder, said needs to be changed. 

“That’s a failure of our state government,” Kelly said about the current law. “Texas is great in a lot of things, … but our government cares more about insurance companies and profits than they do about people.”

Esparza said he thinks state agencies and lawmakers should look at crash data to study the extent to which the low insurance minimums are a problem.

"If you have a section of the industry that, though its use is infrequent, it still has outdated insurance minimums, the Legislature should look at that," Esparza said.

For families, few other options in sight

In the weeks immediately after the crash, the Hays County community supported the affected families through food donations, toy drives and prayers. Neighbors also collected money. 

By mid-July, victims and their families received just under $1,800 each from a GoFundMe drive.

Elder said the money paid for Frankie to go to a summer camp. She also plans to use it to pay Frankie’s therapy debts. 

Other parents have looked elsewhere, unsure that the GoFundMe money will be enough.  

Martinez has applied for Texas’ Crime Victim Compensation program, which reimburses medical expenses related to crimes. There is, however, no guarantee the Texas attorney general’s office, which manages the program, will accept her application, nor is it likely the program would promptly reimburse the family. 

Though some lawyers, like Kelly, have convinced their clients against pursuing a civil case due to the lack of FJM assets known and the high costs of litigation, others have continued.

“It’s the right thing to do,” said Lopez Macias, the lawyer representing Laura Martinez. 

But the success of that civil case, or if it’s able to put a lien on any of the company’s assets, won’t be known for many months. 

The uncertainty ahead, the parents told the Statesman, is unnerving. 

“It’s disheartening. I feel like it’s all past and has been forgotten about,” Victoria said. 

Pushing forth

In July, a month after she had taken Caleb out of therapy, Martinez reenrolled him. 

She would stomach the costs, she decided. It was worth it. 

“It gives me a bit of peace,” Laura Martinez said in Spanish. “I can give him a mother’s love, but I don’t know the methods or techniques when he asks me something (concerning) or when he trembles in the car.” 

Caleb has enjoyed the clay work from his sessions. He has learned breathing exercises and how to trace his index finger over the outline of his other hand, “like a roller coaster,” to calm him. Laura Martinez said Caleb’s therapist has taught her how to better react to her son’s frustration and anguish. She has learned to let him cry, “not shut him down,” and listen. 

Though she can’t yet pay to return to her own therapy sessions, she feels relief and happiness to see her son’s condition improve. 

It’s a process that she says “helps me and it helps him.”

Staff reporter Keri Heath contributed to this story.

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