Employment – BackinBusiness

Despite their pleas it could be May before pubs are pouring pints again

I always regarded Sunday lunchtime and Christmas Day as the best sessions to be had in my local pub. The beer would flow along with the good cheer and laughter. A Monday night session wasn’t bad either; a release valve following the return to work after the weekend break, and a chance to chew the cud and put the world to rights.

I’m impressed by the jabs but not by the dithering

I briefly managed to break free from lockdown last week to have my first Covid-19 jab. I was in and out of the village surgery in less than five minutes. It was painless and efficient and, I have to confess, gave my confidence a much needed boost.

The Government’s Kickstart Scheme requires rocket boosters if it’s to be the main driving force for young people

It feels like a lifetime ago now, but back in the somewhat brighter days of July last year, the Chancellor unveiled a plan to help young people get into work post-pandemic.

Clearly threatening small businesses and the self-employed with tax rises is not the way to revive the economy

What is it about the word “clarity” that the Government struggles with?

Continually revisiting the furlough scheme is the wrong approach if we want to avoid redundancies

The latest mutter-from-the-gutter claims a third extension to the furlough scheme could emerge in the March Budget.

It Could Be You!

Tens of thousands of small businesses could receive insurance payouts covering losses in the first national lockdown, following a court ruling.

It’s not just businesses that are struggling financially–it’s the households that depend on them to put food on the table

Today the state of the small business sector is spotlighted by a new report from the debt charity the Money Advice Trust. The Trust runs two debt helplines: National Debtline for individuals in financial trouble, and Business Debtline, the only service in the UK to help small businesses in debt. I have to declare an interest here. I have been an ambassador for the Money advice Trust for years. It does remarkable work.

BackinBusiness interview with Darren Jones MP

Interview with Darren Jones MP, Chair of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee

In the week that Arcadia and Debenhams collapsed we caught up with the Chair of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Darren Jones MP, and talked to him about the impact of Covid on small businesses and self employed people and what he thinks it will take to get the UK working again.

Almost 27,000 jobs under threat as large parts of the High Street face being wiped out, and there’s more to come

This week -over the space of just a few days, three major retailers went into administration. It was a retailing disaster. It could spell the end of retail as we know it in the UK.

The cure for many small businesses remains worse than the disease

What a drag! For many of us the past four weeks of lockdown have been interminable, coming hard on the heels of the four months lockdown we were all subjected to earlier this year.

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