Business management

The Government has indicated it plans to provide working parents with a greater degree of flexibility in the leave they are allowed to take.

The newly published Pensions Bill will see the state retirement age increase to 66.

Employers should be encouraged to allow workers time off work to take part in volunteer schemes.

Employers’ groups have voiced worries at the Government’s decision to go ahead with plans to abolish the default retirement age of 65.

The Government has said that, according to plan, the default retirement age of 65 is to be phased out between 6 April and 1 October 2011.

Small businesses must be central to Government strategies for private sector job creation, the Forum of Private Business (FPB) has said.

Interns who work for three months or longer should be paid a wage, a business group has argued.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has issued a reminder about important changes that will be affecting corporation tax this April.

A leading business group has urged that the current employment tribunal system be reviewed in order to cut down on the number of spurious claims that are being lodged.

The pay awards granted by private firms in 2011 could lag behind the rate of inflation, a new report has suggested.