Almost half of accountants say they do not know enough about auto enrolment, despite being the primary source of advice sought by small businesses about the pension legislation, a report by employee benefits adviser Helm Godfrey finds. And with tens of thousands of small businesses, which make up more than 99.9 per cent of the UK’s
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The 2016 survey is HMRC’s eighth annual Civil Service People Survey.
HMRC’s employee engagement index has increased by 2% to 47%, its highest point ever and with positive improvements against all nine engagement drivers. The increase places us 12% points away from the 59% Civil Service benchmark.
The response rate for this year was 69%, the highest out of the ‘big five’ departments – the first time HMRC has achieved this.
Source: HMRC
Fitbit is buying smartwatch-maker Pebble’s intellectual property but not its hardware business, which is closing.
Source: BBC
Tata Steel has put forward plans to secure the future for jobs and production at Port Talbot and other UK sites.
Source: Sky Business News
Steel unions say they have secured a commitment from Tata Steel to safeguard the future of jobs and production at Port Talbot and other sites.
Source: Sky Business News
Around 472,000 small business owners will be working every day over the Christmas holiday without a single day off, according to a survey commissioned by business for sale marketplace, Bizdaq. The research suggests that the cost of employing staff is an ever-growing issue – 2.3 million small business owners are not hiring additional staff due
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Four in ten (38 per cent) small and medium-sized businesses have suffered cashflow problems over the past two years, according to new research by Amicus Commercial Finance. The figure rises to two-thirds (65 per cent) among medium-sized firms with between 50 and 250 staff. According to the study conducted among 500 small businesses owners, over the past
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London’s biggest housing association Peabody Trust, to join forces with rival Family Mosaic to give them 55,000 properties.
Source: BBC
Motorists are being put at risk of invalid insurance and breaking the law because some dealers are retaining car log books.
Source: BBC
Security experts attack TalkTalk’s response to evidence that thousands of its wi-fi passwords have been stolen.
Source: BBC