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China’s recovery falters, amid growing concern over rising credit growth

Growth in activity slowed in early 2013 China’s GDP growth slowed in

Economic update – April 12th

Industrial production in the UK rebounded in February, rising by 1.0% on

International Update – March 15

A big week in China, with the National People’s Congress and the

Economic update – March 15

The UK construction sector appeared to start 2013 on a weak note,

Economic update – March 8th 2013

Responding to the announcement from the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee

Post-employment victimisation is not covered by the Equality Act 2010

Date: 07/03/13 The EAT has held that post-employment victimisation is not covered by

Jobs growth and the race for talent to continue despite fears of triple dip recession

POSTED IN: RECRUITMENT Fears of a triple dip recession have failed to make

Economic update – March 1st 2013

The indecisive results of Italy’s general election re-ignited tensions in global financial

Health and Safety reforms

The government has announced that they have made significant progress in reforming

HMRC report self assessment statistics

HMRC have reported that a record 9.61 million people submitted their self

Female Quota’s

CBI President Sir Roger Carr this week chaired the launch of the Female FTSE Board Report, with a speaker panel which included the Secretary of

Greater governmental support needed to encourage flexible working within businesses

– MARCH 12, 2013POSTED IN: HR STRATEGY & PRACTICE 82 per cent of UK employees feel the Government must do more to incentivise businesses to implement flexible

Invitation from John Cridland CBI

Dear CBI Colleague, The news over the weekend of the downgrade of the AAA sovereign rating produced unsurprising calls for a radical change of economic

More protection for whistleblowers announced

POSTED IN: EMPLOYMENT LAW The Government has announced that the protections available to whistleblowers are to be strengthened further. Its proposed amendment to the Enterprise and

Zero contract – Zero holiday pay?

An interesting case was recently heard by the European Court of Justice following a referral from the German courts in the cases ofAlexander Heimann and

Compulsory quota for women board members

Late last year, the European Commission drafted legislation to ensure that women will eventually represent at least 40% of all non-executive board member positions by

Failure to provide information on agency workers

Date: 21/02/13 Following the implementation of the Agency Worker Regulations 2010 (AWR) on 1 October 2011, amendments were made  to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of

Plans to tackle long-term sickness absence

Date: 18/02/13 In 2011 a report by Dame Carol Black and David Frost made a number of recommendations to help tackle workplace sickness absence. The government

Collaboration on early conciliation

Date: 18/02/13 At present, Acas has the power to help parties to conciliate certain claims and parties can request their independent service. This is likely to

Carney and options for monetary policy

A link to the full report is: http://www.cbi.org.uk/media/1926134/cbi_economics_in_focus_carney_and_options_for_monetary_policy_jan_2013.pdf