Many businesses are currently seeking help from freelancers in order to reduce their long-term obligations compared to their permanent staff in the midst of the current economic crisis. This has both positive and negative connotations in terms of employment rights and copyright ownership issues.
Freelancers are self-employed, and offer their services to your company for a [...]

If you are planning on setting up a small business, you may be unclear as to what exactly marketing is, and how essential it is towards the overall success of your business.
Marketing refers to how your business accomplishes in three areas:
1) Identifying what your customer wants
2) Anticipating demand for your product or service
3) Satisfying your customers demand
If you [...]

Government plans could cost small firms £800m a year.

After blaming the Government for not doing enough to aid the floundering economy, the Federation of Small Businesses has now called for the Government to hold back on their plans to implement new legislation that could eventually cost the industry around £800 million a year.
The new plans [...]

BRC survey gives a glimmer of hope.
It would seem as though a little light is being seen at the end of the economical tunnel as the  British Retail Consortium has found that sales of retail goods saw a much needed rise through January.
Compared to the same time a year before, retail sales saw the slight [...]

The Chartered Institute of Personnel (CIPD) have warned that British companies are cutting jobs at an ever-growing rate.
More than a third of all employers in the UK are apparently looking to cut jobs in the first quarter of 2009. This number is twice as high as the number that planned to make cuts in the [...]

It’s just not working…

The Federation of Small Businesses has hit out at the Government’s response to the economic crisis by saying that they view the measures that have been taken as a failure.
Through the economic downturn the Government has fallen back on their interest rate blanket as well as provided funding for firms around the [...]

The Apprenticeship Bill was first drafted in July of last year, but it has recently come to light again in the midst of the current economic crisis.

 
What the Bill aims to do…
The new Bill aims to give employees more access to training programmes linking directly to specific areas of work.
The Bill also focuses on young [...]

Sorry, it’s not working out…
As unemployment rates are rocketing sky high as businesses around the country are struggling to remain open, it would only seem fitting to dedicate some time to clearing the uncomfortable stigma surrounding making redundancies.
It can never be classed as an easy thing to do to make someone redundant, however in these [...]