National Apprentice Week takes place from 7 to 13 February 2022. As ever, the week will raise the profile of apprenticeships and showcase the difference they can make to companies and individuals. So if you’ve been considering taking on an apprentice but are yet to...
Wages are on the up. In real terms however, they’re on the way down, currently fighting a losing battle with inflation. The effect is to leave more staff expecting a pay rise. But what happens when you can’t afford it? Sainsbury’s has announced a 5.3% pay rise for...
How to keep your head (and your staff) when all about you are losing theirs. Recently, workers at a branch of Burger King in Nebraska decided enough was enough. As the Mail Online notes, general manager Rachel Flores had been working 60 hour weeks in a restaurant...
The Budget has left much to digest for business… Budgets come and go with a tweak to income tax allowances here and a penny or two on wines and spirits there. But this Budget felt different. With more debt than the UK has faced in 50 years, Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
They’re both ways of releasing money tied up in your unpaid invoices, but is one better than the other? And which form of invoice financing is right for you? Why choose invoice financing? There’s money tied up in your invoices. That’s the way it’s always been, of...
How will the furlough scheme change over the next few months? What are the chances of a further extension? And what does that mean for busy payroll teams? Trying to keep up with the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) since its launch earlier this year has been a...
If your small business is thinking of outsourcing payroll, how much will it cost? You run an SME. You know the benefits of outsourcing your payroll – from efficiencies to savings, compliance to security – but there’s one small problem. Do a quick Google of ‘payroll...