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Can you tell me whether it is a good idea to ask on our agency application forms whether potential workers are disabled or not? I have done so in the past, but I have been informed that it could prove to be discriminative?
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It is the duty of an accountant to expose corruption. The profession must make a stand and confront the issue
A consortium led by support services company Amey will build and run court facilities in south-west England in the next 25 years in a groundbreaking private finance initiative (PFI) deal. This is the first PFI deal to involve more than one department, including the Lord Chancellor’s Department. The £32 million deal includes court facilities in Bristol and Worle.
Q: How can you best manage contracts in an environment where devaluation has occurred and foreign currency is in short supply? At the moment, this is causing big problems for my company in Zimbabwe. Some suppliers are asking for frequent price increases,
Scotland’s largest public sector procurement agency, the Authorities Buying Consortium, is to buy 112GW hours of renewable energy from ScottishPower. It claims that the two-year deal is the single biggest purchase of green energy in the UK.
German supplier Siemens is to supply 785 rail carriages for South West Trains in a massive £1 billion contract with Stagecoach. Siemens will build the units in Düsseldorf and Vienna. Most of the carriages will replace SWT’s “slam-door” units, while 200 of them will be used on new Waterloo-Windsor and Woking-Basingstoke services.
UK businesses will spend 74 per cent more on e-commerce this year than in 2000, according to a survey conducted for Computer Weekly magazine. It predicted that e-commerce spending is heading towards £4 billion or 6 per cent of total IT spend after more than doubling in 2000. The report predicts that businesses with fewer than 5,000 employees will double spending this year.