Latest Contractor News
Keep up to date with all the latest contractor news. We have written everything in plain English, so there’s no need to go to the overly complex HMRC website to learn about any tax and accountancy related updates.
Job seekers are being advised not to be complacent
RoleCatcher: ‘Employers are finding talent is in short supply and the skills shortages across a range of sectors are well documented. However, that doesn’t mean that job seekers can be complacent when it comes to finding a new position’.
Read this postMajority of professionals considering changing jobs due to cost of living
CV-Library: ‘The pandemic pushed the desire for flexible and remote working to the fore but, whilst it is still important, we’re seeing this take a back seat as the need for more money takes precedence’.
Read this postNHS fails to award agency workers the same pay as permanent counterparts
REC: ‘Without agency staff the NHS would be unable to meet patient needs, so it is vital that the sector is supported to remain viable’.
Read this postNearly half of over 50s regret not saving into their pension sooner
Aviva: ‘Hindsight is a wonderful thing and life in your 20s and 30s can often take over, with children to raise, debts to pay and holidays to be had’.
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SIGN UPUK job postings start to slow
REC: ‘The jobs market has been super-heated in the first few months of this year, and was always likely to stabilise in the spring. We may be seeing the first signs of that now’.
Read this postCall to end mortgage discrimination against self-employed
IPSE: ‘After decades of frustration, unfairness and prejudice, it is finally time for the government and the financial services industry to wake up and end the discrimination against self-employed workers’.
Read this postWorking parents reminded not to miss out on childcare help
The UK’s working parents are being reminded not to miss out on government help to pay for childcare over the Easter holidays.
Read this postYounger people being targeted by investment scams
Lloyds Bank: ‘There’s now a new generation of younger, more inexperienced investors on the scene for scammers to target’.
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