Monthly Archives: February 2019

Men and women bosses both discriminate over maternity leave fears

There is little difference between male and female bosses when it comes to maternity leave discrimination in the workplace. New figures from Worksome, a business consultant matchmaking platform, shows that a quarter of male business leaders and 21% of female business leaders admit to rejecting female candidates for jobs who ‘appear’ to be of maternity
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One third of SMEs expect business funding to become more difficult post Brexit

One in three smaller British businesses (34 per cent) expect access to funding to become more difficult following the UK’s departure from the European Union. Only three per cent expect finding finance to become easier, according to the British Business Bank’s latest Small Business Finance Markets report. And smaller businesses are gloomier about the prospects
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Warning to employers not providing pensions for staff

Employers who don’t provide a pension scheme for staff face unlimited fines. The warning comes as an accounts manager who tried to hide the fact that restaurants had not given their staff workplace pensions has been ordered to pay £5,000. Bradford-based Mansoor Nasir submitted false declarations of workplace pension compliance to The Pensions Regulator (TPR
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