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Category: Columns

Columns, blogs and opinion from some of the UKs leading business opinion makers and entrepreneurs and small business owners

apprentice

Get apprenticeships moving, with policy change & free travel for trainees

16 May 2018 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

If the UK is to overcome its skills problem, the Government has to do something about the ‘square peg, round hole’ solution it is persisting with.

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Stress – myths & misconceptions

19 April 2018 Columns, Opinion Carole Spiers 0 Comments

People frequently say they don’t have time to manage their stress!. “Don’t bother me now. I’ve got a job to do”. Sound familiar?

Beside every great woman is a great man

13 April 2018 Columns, Opinion Alex Robson 0 Comments

Bearing in mind that I am a dedicated and passionate business woman and that this is my first column for ‘Business Matters’ it would be odd not to give a nod to a subject matter which has been consistently hitting the headlines – ‘Women’. We certainly seem to be the topic of conversation this year!

Unpaid shifts are exploitative & fundamentally wrong!

15 March 201815 March 2018 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

The workplace is meant to be a place where people learn, a pathway to bettering themselves you could say; So someone please tell me why companies have the audacity to exploit our young people with ‘unpaid shifts’.

Theresa May’s sacrificial lamb has left business and young people bloodied!

9 January 2018 Columns, News, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

Yesterday Theresa May once again proved it is she, not various members of her cabinet, who needs to be in another job.

The Autumn Budget and business

28 November 201728 November 2017 Columns, Opinion Mark Wright 0 Comments

Phillip Hammond’s Autumn Budget has pledged to make Britain ‘Fit for the Future’ – announcing an increased living wage, tax thresholds and additional funding for new homes and vital systems like the NHS.

skills gap

Don’t forget the Apprenticeships in the Budget, they’ll be the backbone of the future workforce

21 November 2017 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

The Autumn Budget is looming and I can tell you, there’s one thing for sure that I hope to see included, and that’s a boost for apprenticeships!

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No EU Deal is definitely a bad deal & threatens economic stability

9 October 2017 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

Settling on a ‘no deal’ future as the UK’s relationship with the European Union is completely unthinkable, and there is no way in hell that such an arrangement can ever be allowed to happen.

Business Schools for Entrepreneurs

27 September 201727 September 2017 Columns, Entrepreneurs Jamie waller 0 Comments

Over my career I have taken business courses at Cranfield University, Stanford University and the London Business School (LBS).

Supreme Court has opened the floodgates and employers will drown in tribunals

26 July 2017 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

I am shaking with rage I’m so angry about today’s Supreme Court ruling that says that charging people to bring employment tribunal cases against employers is illegal.

Brexit

Football & Comedy – Perfect Analogies for the European Championships of Brexit

27 June 2017 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

A year ago this month there was a big match played in the UK; watched by a huge crowd, with the final score probably best-described as an away win: Remain City 48-52 Leave County.

Money

Matthew Taylor’s timley Employment Review needs to clear up grey areas

16 February 2017 Columns, News, Opinion, Uncategorized Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

From what I’ve read and heard, Matthew Taylor seems like a decent bloke, and someone I’d love to sit down and talk to as part of his Review of Modern Employment, that he is currently carrying out on behalf of the Government.

Autumn Statement Philip Hammond

The ‘Autumn Statement Game’ – The Chancellor Puts Up Ladders After Economy Lands On A Snake Head!

24 November 201624 November 2016 Columns, Opinion Charlie Mullins 1 Comment

Listening to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement yesterday, I couldn’t help feeling a sense of Déjà vu, as he tried his best to make a very meagre amount of money look like it was going further than it could.

Government should abandon appeal after Court takes 120 seconds to declare Parliament supreme on Article 50

3 November 20163 November 2016 Columns, News, Opinion Charlie Mullins 1 Comment

Today, the most senior judge in the country took two minutes to obliterate the Government’s case for bullying parliament out of its constitutional right to trigger Article 50 and take the UK out of the EU.

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Hard Brexit thugs are an economic wrecking ball

1 November 20161 November 2016 Columns, News, Opinion Charlie Mullins 0 Comments

Last night the man who has since the referendum stood between us and self-inflicted economic ruination, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England (BOE), resigned.

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