The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Many schools are ignoring specific instructions from the Government which says that public sector contingent workers who are on live assignments but cannot work due to…
Furloughed workers planning to take paid parental or adoption leave will be entitled to pay based on their usual earnings rather than a furloughed pay rate,…
A group of membership bodies, representing around 300,000 members has joined forces to call for financial support for their forgotten members who have been overlooked for…
The Premier League is planning to resume the season with matches at “approved” stadiums when the government grants permission for clubs to return to action.
A Treasury proposal to “get Britain back to work” includes plans to ensure that offices and workplaces are free from coronavirus.
The owner of Alton Towers and Madame Tussauds is tapping government rescue schemes only months after it was taken private in a deal that saddled it…
Debenhams has warned the Welsh finance minister it will be forced to shut its major shops in Wales unless the government reverses a decision on business…
UK retail sales fell a record 5.1% in March as many stores shut up shop in the face of the coronavirus lockdown.
Over-60s, 50-59-year-olds and new mothers are three of the groups most likely to miss out on government self-employed support because they went into freelancing too recently,…
Virgin Australia owed more than $6.8bn to more than 12,000 creditors, including employees, banks, aircraft financiers and landlords, when its board decided to appoint administrators last…
Businesses have been given “a licence not to pay rent” after the government banned landlords from taking action against tenants who don’t pay as a result…
All companies should be given a three-month business rates holiday as part of almost £16 billion of potential new aid, according to the CBI.
Hiscox Action Group, set up by policy holders to ensure that Hiscox Insurance honours its Business Interruption insurance, has today announced it has retained top city…
Jaguar Land Rover plans to gradually resume production from 18th May, starting with manufacturing plants in Solihull in the UK as well as in Slovakia and Austria.
Ryanair planes won’t return to the skies if the airline is forced to leave the middle seat empty to comply with “idiotic” in-flight social distancing rules