Housebuilder Persimmon has hired 50 people to work on sites across the country in the past two months and is on the lookout for at least 20 more employees

The programme of hiring follows the reactivation of sites that had previously been mothballed. The firm has also launched a management trainee scheme.

鈥淲e have cautiously appointed a number of employees on fixed-term contracts that we hope will turn into permanent contracts in the future,鈥� said Richard Latham, Persimmon鈥檚 human resources director.

In a trading update last month, the housebuilder said it had opened 45 developments so far this year and planned to start work on a further 50 sites before the end of the year.

The housebuilder shed 1,100 workers in July 2008.

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