Nearly one in five employees have been forced to use their annual leave entitlement or take unpaid leave to attend funerals of family members or friends, according to new research from MetLife. Its findings show 19 per cent of workers have been absent to attend funerals or cope with bereavement which was classed as unpaid leave
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Inflation has risen to a two-year high as the impact of the fall in the pound starts to feed through to consumer prices.
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Sales of supermarkets’ premium own-label brands boom as shoppers decide to treat themselves.
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The London market opens little changed but shares in Carpetright take a beating as its profits fall.
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Donald Trump has chosen oil boss Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State.
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Carpetright has reported a slump in profits after it was hit by sliding sales and the weak pound.
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Starting in their teens or early 20s, the fearlessness of youth has helped these entrepreneurs launch enterprises that are worth millions
Do you need a degree to run a string of businesses? Research by Coutts and the Centre for Entrepreneurs suggests the level of an entrepreneur’s education is inversely related to the number and turnover of the businesses they start.
Among those surveyed in the research, those that had a bachelor’s degree or above had started 2.7 businesses on average. For those with a lower qualification or no qualification at all, the average number of businesses started was 3.5. Meanwhile, a higher proportion of the non-university educated were running businesses with a turnover greater than £1m (34%) compared to the university educated (18%).
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UniCredit, Italy’s biggest bank, announces plans to raise €13bn and cut 14,000 jobs in an attempt to return to financial health.
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This document is classified by HM Revenue and Customs as a Tariff Stop Press Notice and includes the latest amendments to volume 2 of the printed version of the UK Trade Tariff from 1 January 2017.
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Japanese brewer Asahi agrees to buy five Eastern European beer brands from AB InBev, including Pilsner Urquell.
Source: BBC