Business Regulation

Employers are in support of the current employment law regime as negotiations to leave the EU take place.

Full-time employee and applying for flexible working? Working adults favour flexible working to traditional office hours.

More than half of small businesses fear skilled staff shortages in post-Brexit Britain.

16% of businesses who have applied for a workplace pension did so after their staging date, up from 1% in Q1 2016.

The national minimum wage rate for workers aged 21-24 will increase to £7.05 an hour on 1 April 2017.

SMEs are contributing to UK export growth with 63% now exporting.

Over a fifth of small businesses say rising costs will be their biggest challenge in 2017.

Over two-fifths of small businesses face challenges recruiting the right staff.

A third of businesses see childcare as a key factor in recruitment and staff retention, according to British Chambers of Commerce and Middlesex University.

Nearly three quarters of small businesses seeking finance only ask one lender, according to research by the Treasury.