Umbrella company contractors north of the border will be pleased to learn that demand for their services continues to rise. The latest PMI shows that growth reached its highest level for four years in February and plenty of job opportunities are springing up for job seekers.
Contractors working through an umbrella company may be interested to learn that small firms have been given an extra year to comply with pensions auto-enrolment.
A lack of internships and entry-level jobs could lead to a lost generation of graduates, HR directors are warning.
The British Chamber of Commerce recently called on the coalition to encourage sole traders to grow by making them exempt from certain legislation.
Eric Pickles, the Communities and Local Government Secretary announced last week that the British Chambers of Commerce will have sole responsibility for uniting the network of local enterprise partnerships.
The next four years will see employers paying out an additional £23.87 billion due to new employment laws, according to the British Chambers of Commerce.
The problem of the multitude of different government regulations is now so bad that businesses often breach them simply because they don’t know which rules apply to them, according to a new report from the National Audit Office.
Advice website Smarta.com has predicted that small businesses could increasingly outsource some of their workloads this year and this could benefit umbrella company contractors.
Our economy should escape a double dip recession, but we will see growth slow down, according to the BCC.
According to new data released from the British Chambers of Commerce, contractors across many UK industries may be in for some good news: the BCC predicts that British GDP will rise by 1.7 per cent this year and 2.2 per cent the following year.
Within 5 years, unemployment levels will reach 10% in over half the regions in the UK predicts the CEBR.
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has announced that the new ‘one in, one out’ system of regulations will come into effect as from the first of September this year, a move that has been welcomed by the FSB.
Both the BCC and the CBI have hit out at the coalition’s proposal to abolish the default retirement age from April 2011. The BCC’s director of policy, Adam Marshall, says this will restrict the ability of businesses to manage their workforce.
