Author: Tom Wood | Date: 11/02/2013
Categories: General
From June to August 2012, Britain’s businesses took on an additional 1.6 million temporary workers. Employed across a range of sectors from agriculture to hospitality, the use of temporary or seasonal workers has become a year round feature of the British employment landscape. Many businesses rely on the short notice availability and flexibility of temporary staff as a key part […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 28/12/2012
Categories: General
Summer may have long since given way to this season’s chill but the record levels of rainfall seen earlier in the year show no signs of letting up, with parts of Northern Ireland, England and Wales continuing to see flooding. All of which focuses attention on the renewal of an agreement betweenb insurers and the government surrounding the availability of […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 26/11/2012
The government recently announced that there was to be a reduction in the number of planned health and safety inspections for many UK businesses such as shops, offices, pubs and clubs. It also made it clear that, in higher risk areas like construction, inspections would continue, reflecting an ongoing concern surrounding the sector’s safety record. Despite the recession and a […]
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 26/11/2012
In the late 1940s, the boss of a major computer business was famously quoted as saying, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” That he was probably misquoted shouldn’t disguise the fact that no one could have foreseen the growth of the computer market to an extent that there is now an estimated one billion computers […]