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Speaking out - Roy Charles: Business and the Mayor
As London goes to the polls, the founder of one of London’s leading businesses, the computer services firm Advanced Systems and Support, condemns lazy managers who don’t tackle staff shortages effectively and calls on the capital’s companies to work with the new Mayor.
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Speaking Out - David
Irwin: Support the SBS
The newly-appointed head of the government’s Small Business Service, due to start work in April, says promoting enterprise remains a vital issue and calls on large companies to help.
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Caring for communities
and costs
The cost of health and safety is rising, even though accidents at work are falling. Social factors are to blame, yet few companies address the issue in their community programmes.
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Comment: Time to give
more help to volunteers
The UK government is backing another big national push to get more people to volunteer, while the private sector tries to fund the local infrastructure which makes this possible.
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Time to give more help to
volunteers
The UK government is backing another big national push to get more people to volunteer, while the private sector tries to fund the local infrastructure which makes this possible.
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Comment: Overcoming
discrimination at work and in society
The McPherson Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence called on all institutions in society to examine their procedures to ensure that both intentional and unintentional racism is eliminated.
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Overcoming discrimination
at work and in society
Stephen Lawrence's death and the eventual independent inquiry has placed the issues of institutional racism on the national agenda as never before. How should community affairs managers respond?
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The Royal Bank of
Scotland: new parliament, new challenges
With the Scottish Parliament sitting again in Edinburgh, leading businesses face growing demands to play a full role in society 'north of the border'. Here we examine how one of the biggest is meeting the challenge.
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Comment: tinkering with
Taxes
In macro terms, the Budget did little to threaten expectations among the pundits for an economic `soft landing', avoiding a major recession.
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Tinkering with taxes,
missing the point
Gordon Brown MP, presented his third substantive Budget speech on March 9, with the consequent Finance Bill now proceeding through Parliament. Along with it came the long awaited but ultimately disappointing review of charity taxation.
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Comment: Preventing
Abuse, Saving Money
In recent years, some companies have broadened their community engagement activities from the traditional three Es of education, environment and economic development to encompass more difficult social issues like crime.
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