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Luke Pollard: Businesses Are Being Given a Chance to Make Their Voices Heard on APD

2013-06-20T03:41:50Z

Each year it is estimated that British businesses pay £500m in Air Passenger Duty (APD) to the Exchequer with a further £500m levied on foreign travellers who come to the UK to do business.

Ann McKechin: Untapped Talent: How Family-Friendly Employment Practices Help Women Fulfil Their Potential

2013-06-20T05:08:24Z

Equality is a good in itself but, as the committee's report says, ensuring that women have the opportunity to realise their maximum potential is as much an economic argument as one about equality. That should be enough to convince all sides that change is needed.

Allan Hogarth: Profits and Loss - Human Rights and the Artisan

2013-06-19T10:39:38Z

In his pre-G8 speech the Prime Minister once again raised "the golden thread" theory which posits a link between open economies and open societies. Eradicating conflict and corruption, establishing the rule of law, free speech and the presence of property rights and strong institutions are central to this.

Nadhim Zahawi: Irresponsible Bankers Should Be Jailed

2013-06-19T19:00:00Z

Bank bosses get paid megabucks on the understanding that their decisions on direction and strategy are responsible for the success of the whole firm. I'm happy to see success rewarded, but the flipside of this system must be that bad decisions have consequences too.

Rob Hopkins: Why Local Economies Hold the Key to Our Economic Future

2013-06-19T19:00:00Z

Why is the city of Bristol printing its own money? Why have Brixton and Bath created their own energy companies? What's a local economy worth? And if we knew, how might it help us imagine an economy beyond austerity?

Lloyds Sell-Off 'Actively Considered' By Treasury

2013-06-19T16:43:33Z

The Treasury is "actively considering" steps to return partially state-owned Lloyds bank to the private sector, and may offer some shares to the publi...

Scott Barnes: Is the Economy Giving Us Reasons to Be Cheerful?

2013-06-19T05:49:55Z

Announcing the results of the final Inflation Report before stepping down, the governor of the Bank of England had some good news for UK businesses. Economic growth is predicted to be around 1% this year, up from its estimate of 0.9% in the last quarter.

David Erasmus: Branson's B Team - Show Me Numbers!

2013-06-18T12:15:02Z

Businesses are created and incentivised to make profit, we have to creatively find ways to make considering people and profit the most attractive option for businesses ruthlessly focused on profit, make it strategic for their success not a distraction from it.

Andy Lopata: Mastermind Groups: Top 10 Steps to Setting Up Your Dream Support Network

2013-06-18T06:07:03Z

You don't have to do it alone. Whatever you want to achieve, whether in developing your own business or progressing your career, you will get much closer to achieving your true potential if you are open to support from your network.

Jane Scott Paul: Complexity of Tax System and Lack of Financial Incentive Hampering Entrepreneurs and SMEs

2013-06-17T11:28:28Z

Over the past year the UK has woken up to the scale and nature of the problem. The tax strategies of multinationals are in the headlines and there is growing controversy that a large number of them are paying as little as 1% tax on their profits here on UK soil.

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Dominic Irvine: Extreme Networking

2013-06-17T16:55:49Z

Come and suffer
It's not exactly a great starting recipe for success. I'd like you to come along, give up two days, spend several hundred pounds and p...

REVEALED: The Best Paid Jobs Which Don't Require Degrees

2013-06-18T04:36:32Z

Working on an offshore oil platform has been revealed as the highest paying job not requiring a degree, while graduates with a 2:2 are faced with the ...

Sean Farrington: Working Together in the Wilderness

2013-06-17T09:26:24Z

Corporates tend to make and drive decisions only from a "giraffe's perspective", i.e. from the top down. But companies are essentially two kinds of animals foraging together - executives at the top as well as workers at the bottom - and workers should have the ability to influence action based on their unique perspective of happenings "on the ground".

Neela Bettridge: Women Leaders: For Workplace Equality, Engage the Men

2013-06-14T10:25:51Z

Why should men wish to discuss 'women's issues'? Because they are now everybody's issues.
Today, the main workplace debate is often about 'work-life' and family, and these have no gender bias.

Massive Hike In Air Fares Pushes UK Inflation Up

2013-06-18T04:45:53Z

A 22% surge in air fares helped lift inflation higher than expected last month to heap more pressure on households.

Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inf...

Evelyn Robert de Rothschild: On RBS

2013-06-17T13:54:43Z

The news that came that the chief executive of RBS will stand down and yet no announcement for a new one seems to be something that troubles many people.

Robin Lustig: Let's Hear It for the Oldies...

2013-06-17T19:00:00Z

Here's a little conundrum for you to chew over: it's estimated that over the next decade, there'll be something like 13.5 million job vacancies in the UK, but only 7 million young people will be leaving full-time education. So who's going to fill those jobs?

Lydia Smith: The Perils Of Summer Workwear

2013-06-17T09:38:46Z

For one, fleeting week, the sun came out and it was the height of the British summer. In a flurry of sun, cider and sunglasses, the public stripped-off and it was all naked knees and strappy sandals. I love summer and enjoy giving my poor, bobbly old tights a rest, but with the heat arises a problem - the dilemma of workwear.

Joanna Montgomery: Three Years Later: 6 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Graduated

2013-06-17T08:03:42Z

As we trundle through June and universities across the country roll out new graduates, a fresh wave of talent, optimism and enthusiasm is unleashed into the working world. But amidst the back-patting from proud parents and the trawling of job adverts, what does it really feel like to be turfed out into the real world after university?

Samantha Roff: How to Improve Opportunities for Women in Business

2013-06-14T09:09:42Z

Rather than focusing on gender quotas, it should always be about putting the right person in the job, regardless of their gender. Businesses need to value experience and loyalty in their people and where appropriate maintain a flexible attitude to employees who have childcare commitments.

No Taxpayers' Money In Co-Op £1.5bn Rescue

2013-06-17T03:13:55Z

A rescue plan for the Co-operative's troubled banking arm has been unveiled in a bid to plug a £1.5 billion hole in its balance sheet.

No taxpayer...

HRH The Prince of Wales: Responsible Business and Enterprise

2013-06-16T19:00:00Z

All of my efforts over the past forty years have been concerned essentially with one central principle - the well-being of the individual. Not the isolated individual. My emphasis has constantly been on the individual within community. People do not thrive without the support of a community so, in my view, if the hope is that people prosper, find happiness and feel that all important sense of satisfaction and belonging, then we have to maintain the fabric of community and not let it become threadbare.

Karren Brady: What I Hope for My Daughter's Career

2013-06-16T19:00:00Z

I, like every parent, want my children to achieve more than I can imagine for them. It's why we need to ensure we send them into the working world with their eyes open and some experience under their belt.

Michael Grant: Should We All Be Forced to Work From Home?

2013-06-16T19:00:00Z

If we were all forced to work from home, we would collectively benefit in ways that are often overlooked. I propose a notion to flip the idea of work on its head - because work is a thing you do and not a place you go.

Who's Paying For The £1bn Co-op Bank Rescue Deal?

2013-06-16T07:52:41Z

A £1 billion rescue plan for the Co-operative's troubled banking arm is set to be unveiled this week in a move likely to hit up to 5,000 small invest...