Thursday, December 10th, 2009 - credit crunch, economics, employment, legal, politics

UK Pre Budget Report: A budget for jobs? UK Chancellor Alistair Darling’s British Pre-Budget Report included a number of initiatives which will affect the employment market. But are the overall measures positive or negative on employment? UK Pre Budget Report The measures announced were: All national insurance rates to rise by a further 0.5% from [...]

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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 - CV Tips, Professional CV, career change, career management, cv help, job application, job hunting, job search

Serious CV advice James asks: I’ve got quite a serious problem regarding my last place of employment on my CV, because I was dismissed. I worked at a bank from November 2008 to March 2009. This is the first job listed on my CV. Previous to that, I worked for a marketing firm from May [...]

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Sunday, August 16th, 2009 - politics, sunday thoughts

Sunday Thoughts: Wage Regulation? There is a lot of politically driven banter in the Sunday newspapers this week of regulating the wages of bankers. It is clearly a typical August holiday slow news weekend, so the editors pick up on anything and everything: anyone seen a juggling badger story yet? But as even Westminster is [...]

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Monday, April 6th, 2009 - HMRC, employer, employment, legal

HMRC IR35 HMRC have been continuing their fight on IR35, and have won a case against an Essex based construction company, resulting in a bill for £800,000 Background: UK employee’s pay two types of tax in their pay: Income Tax, and National Insurance. The later is supposed to pay/contribute for areas such as the NHS [...]

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Saturday, March 21st, 2009 - cv help, cv security, tutorial

Do you have to write your national insurance number on my CV?

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