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Why a Business Needs Health and Safety Training
Health and Safety training is of paramount importance for any business that employs staff. Business owners have a legal obligation to provide a safe environment for all staff and visitors, and if they fail to maintain a good standard of health and safety they are likely to be subject to prosecution by the Health & [...]
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PPI Claims Summit Welcomed By Leading PPI Claims Company
Leading PPI Claims Company has PPIClaimsCo.org become the first Claims Management Company (CMC) to openly welcome the PPI Summit that took place on Monday 23rd April. The PP Summit, organised by consumer groups Which? and MoneySavingExpert.com is the first of it’s kind, where all the major UK banks came together with the regulators and consumer [...]
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Inflation Up By 0.1pc For March 2012
UK inflation rose to by 0.1% last month, according to two different indexes. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) reporting an increase from 3.4 to 3.5% and the Retail Price Index (RPI), an alternative measure of inflation, dipped increasing from to 3.6% to 3.7% for March 2012. These figures will heap further pressure on already hard-pressed [...]
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Invest In A Hassle Free Business
Contractors who are interested in an alternative to a Ltd. Company may want to consider an umbrella company. Under this arrangement, a contractor can focus on income-generating activities without the hassle of having to deal with the administrative tasks which come with running a business. The umbrella company will keep track of business expenses and [...]
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Complaints Against Banks Up by 21pc
The number of complaints against UK banks and financial institutions, have increase by 21% as compared with the previous six months according to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) which received more than 12,000 complaints a day in the second half of 2011, a large proportion of which were related to mis sold payment protection insurance [...]
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Biggest Drop in Household Income Since 1977
Recent figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggest that household disposable income fell by 1.2% last year – the biggest drop since 1977. Frozen salaries and the rising costs of bills are said to be the main contributing factors. The drop means that the average UK household had approx £430 less to [...]
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Cost of Stamps Increases by 30pc
Royal Mail has announced today that the prices of first and second class stamp prices will rise by 30% and 39% respectively at the end of the month (April 2012), as it inches towards privatization. Ofcom, the industry regulator, paved the way for the price hikes earlier this week by announcing a new pricing structure [...]