Employers always need to keep their key staff because the health of the business often depends on them. In today’s tough economic climate, it is even more essential that staff turnover at the senior level is minimised to avoid disruption. Inflationary pressures also dictate that staff will want (and even expect) higher salaries [...]
[click here read more]Posted: June 1st, 2009 under Corporate Finance, Employment/HR.
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You’ve heard the Chancellor’s recent budget 2009 and it’s all looking a bit grey for the future. Income tax increases are projected and will be brought into effect in stages so that the Government can recoup some of the money it has ploughed into the economy. If you’re earning six figures, the news [...]
[click here read more]Posted: April 30th, 2009 under Corporate Finance, Employment/HR.
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The Government has announced details of a £16.5 million fund aimed at encouraging voluntary sector organisations to merge and modernise.
The move forms part of the larger £42.5 million action plan, ‘Real Help for Communities: Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises’, to assist third sector organisations struggling in the current economic climate. It also follows on from [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2009 under Charities and Social Enterprises Group, Corporate Finance.
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The prohibition on the giving of financial assistance by private companies was (other than in limited circumstances) repealed with effect from 1 October 2008 under the Companies Act 2006. The repeal resulted in there no longer being a requirement for private companies to follow the statutory “whitewash” procedure where financial assistance for the acquisition [...]
[click here read more]Posted: November 19th, 2008 under Corporate Finance.
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The Company Names Adjudicator Rules 2008 (“CNAR”) came into force on 1 October 2008. Under the CNAR an applicant can file an objection to a company’s registered name on the basis that it is either: (1) the same as the name of a company in which the applicant has goodwill; or (2) is so [...]
[click here read more]Posted: November 12th, 2008 under Corporate Finance.
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