Business Insights

Small businesses need to be watchful of auto enrolment deadlines

Small businesses who have not yet implemented auto enrolment for employees eligible for workplace pensions are being urged to make sure they meet their obligations. The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has been writing to small and micro-businesses (those who employ between one and nine people) to let them know their staging dates.

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Extreme weather top business worry for 2016

Extreme weather events have been named the top fear for businesses going into 2016. Almost a quarter (23%) of SMEs polled in Barclays’ 2016 Hopes & Fears survey listed extreme weather as a factor that they feared could have a negative impact on their businesses over the course of the next 12 months.

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New Living Wage to have bigger impact on northern employers

The introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) will be felt more keenly by employers in big northern cities, according to new research.

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A quarter of SMEs operate with no business plan

A new survey by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has found that just over a quarter (26%) of small businesses in the UK do not have a business plan.

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CBI survey reveals businesses’ biggest concerns for 2016

Two of the main concerns facing UK businesses are the introduction of the National Living Wage and a continuing skills shortage, according to a study co-published by the Confederation of British Industry.

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