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HM Revenue & Customs’ Business Payment Support Service (BPSS) has helped over 160,000 businesses reschedule more than £5billion of tax in its first 15 months, new figures reveal today.
The BPSS gives viable businesses, experiencing temporary difficulties paying their taxes, the opportunity to reschedule their tax payments to a more affordable timetable, as part of a [...]

The Government has announced that the number of people gaining a qualification through the Train to Gain programme has hit the one million mark.
The millionth learner, Chris Scott, a process operator at chemical manufacturer William Blythe Ltd, in Accrington, completed his level 2 NVQ in Business Improvement Techniques on January 29 this year. Chris’s work [...]

Skills for Logistics, the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the logistics sector, has been given a further trademark licence to operate as an SSC, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson announced recently, on behalf of the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations.
Sector Skills Councils are employer-led bodies, established to enable employers to exert influence on the [...]

Companies may be required to report on their progress to get more women into the boardroom, under proposals announced this week. It comes as new research shows that sixty per cent of people think there are not enough women directors in big businesses.
The survey which has been commissioned by the Government Equalities Office for International [...]

Ambitious new targets to help more people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities in the workplace, are announced today by Minister for Disabled People Jonathan Shaw.
From April this year, 2,000 people with learning disabilities and up to 1,500 people with mental health conditions will be guaranteed places on the Access to Work programme to [...]

 Embed diversity into talent management strategy, says CIPD report

 Employee loyalty ‘increases’

 Recruitment agencies ‘burdened by recession’

 Gender discrimination ‘could continue for ten years’

 Employers ’should provide more support to back pain sufferers’

 Health and safety discussions ‘not taboo’

 TUC: Well-being should be promoted through work

 ‘Think like marathon runner’ to reduce stress

 Is caste discrimination a problem in UK workplace?

 Staff well-being ‘ignored by employers’

 What makes a great boss?

 Permanent placements rise at fastest pace since 2007

 REC to chair Employing and Vetting non-UK Nationals Conference

 HSE launches crackdown on dangerous construction sites

 5,000 Health Apprenticeships created

 Organisations able undertake statutory ballots and elections under trade union law

 Business coalition: “Say no to employer National Insurance Contributions increase”

 Welcome help for asbestos sufferers but disapointment on compensation ruling

 HMRC launches ‘Super Podcast’ on filing changes

 Protecting the UK border by boosting overseas co-operation