14 May 09 Flexible Working Hours
Previously the right to request ‘flexible working hours’ was aimed at parents with children up to the age of 6, now, based on an independent review into flexible working hours last year this has now been extended to parents with children up to the age of 16…
Tags: ACAS, CBI, Employment, Flexible Working Hours, Harriet Harman, Part Time Jobs
07 May 09 Gender Discrimination And Sex Discrimination At Work
Harriet Harmon told the campaign group Fawcett Society on the 7th May 2009 “that in certain circumstances employers should positively discriminate in favour of women…”
Tags: Employment, Employment News, equal pay rights, gender discrimination at work, jobs, sex discrimination
01 May 09 Mortgage Market Recovery
Finally the mortgage market has seen its first increase in profits since May 2008, Abbey predicted on Wednesday 29th April as the mortgage market announced a quarterly profit increase of 25%. The Abbey chief executive Mr Horta-Osório stated he expects return to overall net lending this year…
Tags: home loans, lending, mortgage statistics, mortgages, remortgage
26 Apr 09 Government To Treat School Children As Criminals
Under the banner of employment incentives the Government has decided that it is ‘right and proper’ to apply the punishment given to criminals (Community Service) to our children. Gordon’s Brown ideal of ‘Good Citizenship’ is starting to look more and more like something from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four…
Tags: Community Service, Employment, Good Citizenship, Gordon Brown, Government, Schoolchildren
26 Apr 09 Sourcing And Buying Conservatories Online
I spent several years working as a writer in and around the home improvement and building industry with a lot of my time focusing on the conservatory and sunroom market. Within this time I have reviewed some the top No1 best selling conservatory companies in the UK as well as individual conservatory products…
Tags: conservatories, conservatory, home improvements, orangeries, sunrooms
21 Apr 09 Freeze Minimum Wage And Business Rates For 2009
This week we hear calls to freeze the national wage at £5.73 from the business sector, earlier this year we heard a stark but clear recommendation by the British Chambers of Commerce to freeze the national wage…
Tags: Alistair Darling, British Chambers of Commerce, Business Rates, Chancellor, Minimum Wage, The Budget
18 Apr 09 Unemployment Statistics & Job Hunting 2009
The unemployment rate, according the official Government statistics are around 6.5% and December 2008 saw the largest quarterly fall in jobs (203,000) since 1992. Over the quarter leading to January 2009 the amount of redundancies rose to an estimated 266,000…
Tags: Government Statistics, Job Hunting, Job Platforms, Unemployment, Unemployment Statistics 2009
07 Mar 09 Attacks on Religion – Religion or Man To Blame
There has been over the last 10 -15 years there has been a marked change in humanities understanding/interpretation and viewpoint of religion and God. Over the last 5 years we have seen an dramatic increase in the outpouring of publications, fiction books and non-fiction books questioning the Bible’s authenticity…
Tags: Anti Religion, Blame, Delusion, God, Man, Mankind, Religeous Wars, Religion, The God Delusion, Truth
05 Mar 09 Extreme Religious Fundamentalism
Did you know the word ‘fundamentalism’ first originated in the Untied States? In the 1920’s and 30’s were a ‘Fundamentalist-Modernist’ controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America created divisions right across the American Christian community…
Tags: Catholic, Christianity, Extreme Religious Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Heretics, Holy War, Infidels, Inquisitions, Islam, Jihad, Religious Fundamentalism, Religious Fundamentalist
03 Mar 09 Unpaid Overtime On The Increase
The TUC estimates that 5.24 million people put in extra work (average 7hrs a week) worth £26.9bn in 2008. Brendan Barber TUC general secretary suggests that the increase in unpaid overtime is due to the recession…
Tags: overtime, overworked, TUC, uk workers, unpaid overtime
03 Mar 09 Effects of the Recession - A Mixed Bag
The recession has not affected everyone; there are lots of people who are actually better off because of it! Lower mortgage rates, fuel and food prices have had a positive impact on some people’s quality of life.
Tags: job cuts, job losses, job security, jobs, Recession
01 Mar 09 Searching For A Job in 2009 – New Jobs, Tips & Grants
In Scotland the Government’s Regional Selective Assistance has just granted £16 million to eighteen companies to help create a further 1300 jobs, while Gordon Brown has pledged to create 100,000 jobs in 2009 to offset the expected redundancies within the same year…
Tags: Employment, Job Grants, Job Search, jobs, New Jobs, Searching For Work
28 Feb 09 Banks Blamed For Payday Loan Increase
What ever opinion you have related to industry of payday loans, it has to be said that the so called “traditional” lenders who have been heavily regulated by the Financial Services Authority - FSA, (namely our high street banks!) are partly to blame for the increase within the sub-prime lending market. After all they have been quietly gambling our money away, wheeling and dealing with risk reward scenarios…
Tags: Banks, Cash Advance, Finance, FSA, Pay Day Loan, Payday Loans, Short Term Loan
24 Feb 09 Housing Market Vs Home Improvements
According to the council of mortgage lenders, gross lending on mortgages has decreased by a massive 52% since January 2008 while Sainsbury’s Finance records a whopping 24% increase in home improvement loans with approximately 425,000 loans said to be worth over £4 billion in the same time frame.
Tags: home improvements, loan, mortgages, property market
24 Feb 09 How To Beat The Credit Crunch And Survive
Being frugal needn’t mean that you have to sacrifice dressing well, eating well or spending time with friends and family. All these things can be accomplished just by changing habits and shopping around for bargain buys.
