Monthly Archives: July 2017

Minimum wage protection should be extended to the self-employed

The government should extend minimum wage legislation to protect some of the UK’s 4.8 million self-employed workforce as part of its drive to tackle low pay and insecurity in the modern workforce, according to a new report published by the Resolution Foundation. The Minimum Required? – which forms part of the Resolution Foundation’s submission to
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Three ways to prepare your business for GDPR

Next May, the UK will apply the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Dubbed as the most important change in data protection of the past two decades, this ruling is set to protect all EU citizens’ data privacy, and enforce changes needed in the business sector which ensure that organisations protect people’s data. Despite Article 50
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Application nightmare: Should you tailor your cover letter for every job?

New research from CV-Library finds that two thirds (66.9 per cent) of candidates between the ages of 18 and 24 find it frustrating that they have to tailor their cover letter for every job that they apply for, with 41.4 per cent believing that cover letters are unnecessary. The research, which surveyed 1,200 workers about their attitudes
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Why the UK must not fail the next generation of entrepreneurs

The UK could be at risk of missing out on vital growth, to be delivered by the next generation of entrepreneurs unless action is taken, warns Barclays as new research is published. Barclays Business Banking finds two fifths (42 per cent) of UK school children aged 8-16 want to launch their own business when they grow up
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Surge in female entrepreneurs and start-ups narrows ‘enterprise gap’

The UK has witnessed a rapid rise in the number of start-ups in recent years. But the number of new female entrepreneurs in the UK has risen far faster than men in the past decade. New research from Aston University using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) also reveals that there are large disparities
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