Fifty unemployed people from North Birmingham are learning skills to help them land new jobs, thanks to funding from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). The WMCA is funding the training to give local people the skills needed to get back into work, as part of the region’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 shutdown. The […]
With lockdown restrictions easing further in England on 4th July, large numbers of people are returning to their jobs, but many are still on furlough and unable to go to work. Rather than trying to soldier on until the crisis is over, many entrepreneurs have decided to start a new business entirely. Lockdown entrepreneurs can […]
With a 53% growth in the last three years, an active fundraising scene, and a 20% surge in-demand during lockdown – fintech has become the poster-boy for how an industry can be in a position to respond quickly to change and opportunity. According to recruiter Robert Walters Fintech: Challenger to Competitor, these are the four […]
Use of the Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) scheme hit an all-time high last year*, with key employees making a record £760m in gains from selling shares in the businesses they work for, says UHY Hacker Young, the national accountancy firm. That is a 27% increase from the £600m they made in selling shares in 2017/18. […]
Schoolbooks.ie, based in Tralee, Co. Kerry, has raised over €100,000 from Linked Finance, Ireland’s leading peer-to-peer (P2P) lender. As Ireland’s largest online retailer of schoolbooks, the funds raised have been used by the company to increase its art, craft and school-book stock to cater for increased demand as parents have coped with home-schooling during the […]
A new study by Merchant Machine has analysed the UK’s working hours to declare which industries and cities put in the most hours per week. Using ONS ASHE data, the UK payments specialist has also looked into pay to highlight whether the hours we put in is reflected in our pay. https://merchantmachine.co.uk/hardest-working-industries/ The top 10 […]
Employees would be prepared to be paid less to work from home according to a new survey by the Working from Home Show, which polled 1,334 people. Almost a third of workers who responded stated that they would be willing to consider a pay cut, with almost two thirds saying that they would look at […]
Local unemployed people are learning the latest construction skills using virtual reality simulators, thanks to training funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). The WMCA has joined forces with Solihull College & University Centre, Birmingham-based RMF Construction Training Academy and education equipment provider Tenstar Simulation to install four simulators at the College in the […]
New research on 500 furloughed full time employees in accounting and finance, reveals how over a third of their bosses are committing fraud and trying to ‘cash in’ by seeking to abuse the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (‘CJRS’) since lockdown. According to the survey by Crossland Employment Solicitors, 35% of the employees working in […]
A survey of 1,000 employees commissioned by StaffCircle, in conjunction with OnePoll, revealed that only half of employees appraisals took place since lockdown began – suggesting most businesses are still in fact ill-equipped for remote working despite the ‘virtual buzz’. Those surveyed have remained in full time employment during lockdown across a range of sectors […]
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Edition 288 – October/November 2020
An ill wind By Business Money group editor Robert Lefroy Lack of cyber securi...
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