The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
The proportion of employers reporting an increase in competition for well-qualified talent has risen threefold from 20 per cent in 2009 to 62 per cent in 2013. That’s according to the CIPD/Hays Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey 2013, launched today at the CIPD’s annual Recruitment conference in London.
Two companies which appear in BBC Three series The Call Centre have been issued with fines related to nuisance calls.
Governments worldwide should clamp down on illegal tax evasion by automatically sharing tax data, an international body has told the G8 summit.
Prime minister claims EU-US deal could create 2m jobs but anti-poverty activists warn that it could sow seeds of next crisis
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans for what could be “the biggest bilateral trade deal in history” between the EU and the US.
Disabled entrepreneurs are being given the chance of winning £50,000 in this year’s Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs in the UK.
Credit union rules are ‘burdensome’ and government plans to relax them do not go far enough, a think tank says.
Business and energy minister plans to announce initiative for raising further funds for sector at Paris air show on Monday
Aid agencies and Labour members call on prime minister to make details of firms’ ownership available to the public
A further pick-up in the economy is in prospect with business confidence rising, consumer spending growing and pressure on household finances easing, according to survey data published on Monday.
Entrepreneur Hilary Devey heads up this years list of those business people being honoured by the Queen for services to business and entrepreneurship, being appointed a CBE for services to the transport industry and to charity.
Frances O’Grady, TUC general secretary, says contracts which keep staff on standby are exploitative
Britain must remain in the European Union to maintain vital trading links, according to the majority of small and medium-sized businesses.
Britain could overtake France and become the second-largest car maker in Europe within the next five years, according to two of the industry’s top executives.
HM Revenue and Customs should “fully investigate” Google after information from whistleblowers “undermined” the firm’s defence of its tax arrangements, a committee of MPs has said.
