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DESPITE the recession companies in Wales are having difficulty recruitment employees.
The Wales Annual Pay & Conditions Survey 2009 from employment relations service Acas and the Glamorgan Business School shows that 40% of Welsh employers are facing problems in attracting new employees. The latest pay and conditions survey, which questioned 125 business and organisations across Wales, says that the problem is most acute in the areas of engineering, technical positions and senior management. Since 2002 the pay of graduate trainee posts has risen by an average of 35%, for factory managers by 25% and for general managers by 17.5%.
In contrast other occupations have seen little change. The average pay rates for security staff increased by only 5% between 2002 and 2009.
Some 59% of the organisations who took part in the survey have a group personal pension scheme and 60% have a group stakeholder pension scheme.
The survey also found that 51% of organisations...