Businesses who set up outside the South-East and the Eastern regions will be exempt from paying National Insurance on the first 10 employees they employ for up to three years up to a total of £5,000 per employee, announced the Chancellor.
Any qualifying businesses will receive this help from the date of yesterday’s Emergency Budget.
Chancellor George Osborne’s announced that the CGT tax rate would rise from 18% to 28% from midnight last night, and that Entrepreneurs’ Relief will increase from £2m to £5m.
Market research recruitment consultancy Hasson Associates has hired Yvonne Costello as consultant to focus on the planning and qualitative research sector.
Joining Hasson Associates from Mango Recruitment, Costello previously worked for the Insight Research Group, part of market research and consulting organisation Cello Group.
The government’s Budget announcement to speed up plans to raise the state pension age for men to 66 by as early as 2016 is a positive move, according to a spokesman for pension and investment adviser Scottish Widows.
Talent management programmes are key to making employees feel engaged at work, according to new research from Capgemini consulting and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The IT Job Board has launched an affiliate programme with affiliate network Affiliate Window.
Affiliates are traditionally website owners who can send traffic, via links to a site. Affiliates then earn an agreed commission on the basis that any sales generated from this traffic. The reward model is commonly known as Cost Per Action (CPA).
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Specialist accountant for contractors Danbro has won an AUG licence, allowing the firm to carry out labour leasing in Germany.
International recruiter Randstad has seen “strong growth” in the financial sector over the past year.
The firm says the number of permanent accounting and finance roles on its books was 379% higher in April 2010 than in April 2009, and nearly at the level seen in April 2007, while permanent banking operations roles in April 2010 were 481% higher than in April 2009.
Jobseekers who use mobile devices such as Smartphones are increasing their chances of being victims of cyber-crime.