Brook Street Bureau PLC is a UK recruitment specialist for office support, light industrial and mid-level professional occupations. The company is one of the UK’s leading
employment agencies
An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees. In developed countries, there are multiple private businesses which act as employment agencies and a publicly-funded employment agency.
Public employment agencies
One ...
.
Founded in Mayfair in 1946 by
Margery Hurst (who later got an
OBE), the company also manages "B.S. Social Care",
[see, the "B.S. Social Care]
website
/ref> BS Homecare and BS Professional which recruits mid-high level professionals.
In 1965 Brook Street was the first employment agency
An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees. In developed countries, there are multiple private businesses which act as employment agencies and a publicly-funded employment agency.
Public employment agencies
One ...
to be listed on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. , the total market value of all companies trading on LSE was £3.9 trillion. Its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Pau ...
and in 1985 it was the first to become a member of the British Quality Foundation
The British Quality Foundation (BQF) is an independent, not-for-profit corporate membership organisation and was founded by the Department for Trade and Industry and UK business leaders in 1993.
The BQF’s Patron is The Princess Royal and t ...
. This was followed in 1987 when they joined the Employers Forum on Disability. Brook Street (UK) Ltd employs more than 500 staff in almost 100 branches nationwide and has 15,000 employer clients each year. It has 9000 temporary workers at any one time and 1000 new applicants per week.
Brook Street is a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation
Recruitment is the overall process of identifying, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and interviewing candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization. Recruitment also is the processes involved in choosing individual ...
, a lobby group for the interests of British employment agencies.
See also
*UK agency worker law
United Kingdom agency worker law refers to the law which regulates people's work through employment agencies in the United Kingdom. Though statistics are disputed, there are currently between half a million and one and a half million agency worke ...
*Temporary worker
Temporary work or temporary employment (also called gigs) refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period of time based on the needs of the employing organization. Temporary employees are sometimes ...
*British labour law
United Kingdom labour law regulates the relations between workers, employers and trade unions. People at work in the UK can rely upon a minimum charter of employment rights, which are found in Acts of Parliament, Regulations, common law and equit ...
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External links
*Brook Street'
website
* BS Social Care websit
www.bssocialcare.co.uk
Temporary employment agencies
1946 establishments in the United Kingdom
Business services companies established in 1946
Employment agencies of the United Kingdom