Something we who live and build businesses in Manchester know already is that Manchester is one of the top places in the UK to run a business. There are a number of reasons for this – the fact you can get anywhere in the North West in under an hour from Manchester and you can […]
Burka Ban in France – a Political Smokescreen ??
Burka Ban in France – a Political Smokescreen ?? There has been much media noise around the ban on the Niqab in France that came into play this week. There are very passionate arguments on both sides – at the bottom are a selection of comments taken from the BBC website – all of whom […]
Some good news on the Economy at last with inflation falling against the odds
Well, its about time isn’t it. Dear dear, not good news for the media and doom mongerers. Inflation has fallen – against all predicitons of it going up to 5% it actually fell to 4% in Feb. Quite obviously nobody should be getting overly excited about this – it is still too high, but at […]
Recruitment grows at weakest rate since August 2009
Staff appointments in October increasing at their slowest rate for 14 months. Does this mean we are heading for a double dip recession? REC chief executive Kevin Green, who last month warned that the jobs market was “starting to flatline”, said: “These figures show that employer confidence remains fragile and as the role of job […]
EU pregnancy law defeated
EU pregnancy law defeated Wednesday, 08, Dec 2010 The European Parliaments plans to extend maternity leave at 90% of full pay from 12 to 20 weeks have been defeated, it could be said largely due to Ed Davey, employment minister who has lobbied hard among his European colleagues. Britain argued not only that the timing […]