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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 [...]

Just do it!
The country is in a recession, the unemployment rate is on the rise to record levels and there are massive amounts of businesses failing to survive through the economic drought.  However, that doesn’t mean budding entrepreneurs have to put their plans on starting up their own small businesses on hold.
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The Federation of Small Businesses has released figures showing how calls to their small business hotline have risen by a staggering 214 per cent a the country plunges further into a recession and more small businesses are being forced out of business.  The FSB have claimed that the calls are relating to concerns and issues [...]

The declining strength of the pound has become even more apparent over the last few days as the country has watched it’s worth drop against the dollar.  The pound has fallen to close to a 23 year low, standing at $1.3915 for every pound and 1.0688 Euros for every pound.
Compared to last summer, the figures [...]

Unemployment is spiralling out of control in Britain as the figures climb a little closer to the 2 million mark through the economic downturn.  However, the government is maintaining the message that the drought will be over soon and that things would ease up on those that are currently unemployed.
Between September and November of last [...]

Gordon Brown’s plans to make a fund available to businesses that are prepared to train the unemployed has been blasted by critics who are claiming that the fund is too little, too late.  Critics around the country are calling for the Government to do more to ease the impact of the huge number of job [...]

Gordon Brown has provided new incentives for businesses in the country as he has claimed that half a million people would be given a bit of help to find either new jobs or training.  Brown has announced that the government will be making funds available to provide employers with up to £2,500 if they train [...]

Companies have been warned that the cost of redundancy is far more serious than firms would initially think, as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s has discovered that the cost of letting an employee go and then hiring someone else averages at £16,375.
The Institute is aware that many firms fall back to redundancy as [...]