Posted by: Gordon Mowat in Employment on
Mar 11, 2010
Thousands of business owners and company directors could find themselves in the dock later this year if they fail to comply with the government’s controversial vetting and barring scheme.
New laws come into force in July requiring more than 9 million people, or over one third of the UK’s working population,
to register so they can be checked under the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)/ Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)scheme.
“The new legislation is intended to close the kind of cracks which allowed the child killer Ian Huntley to slip through the net,” said Alan Wright FCCA of business improvement specialists Aspire Management Services.
Posted by: Gordon Mowat in Employment, Cash Flow on
Mar 11, 2010
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has joined forces with other business and employment organisations to call on small firms to sign a petition urging the Government to freeze National Insurance.
Research by the FSB with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) found that increasing employers’ National Insurance by just one per cent will cost 57,000 jobs at a time of record unemployment figures.
“The latest research claims that these changes will not provide any substantial help to plug the Government’s gap in public finances,” said Frances Rentoul of business improvement specialists Aspire Management.
“Already the British Chambers of Commerce, Institute of Directors, British Retail Consortium, Confederation of British Industry, The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Forum of Private Business and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation have started lobbying for a freeze.
