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The Post Lockdown Skills Gap
In a new, post lockdown reality can we expect a ‘return to normal’ when all evidence points to a widening skills gap and faltering productivity?
Setting up and Running a Payroll System
A brief guide to payroll systems
guide
Setting an internet and e-mail policy in the workplace
An introductory guide for policy setting
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Top 10 mistakes employers make when paying the National Minimum Wage
Avoid making mistakes with this list of the most common reasons that cause underpayment.
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Health & Safety
This introductory guide explains the main steps that must be taken to ensure that an employer complies with health and safety regulations.
guide
Redundancy Legislation & Procedure
This guide gives an overview of an employee's legal rights, and the procedures that employers should be following throughout the redundancy process.
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Tackling Swindon's skills gap
A recurring theme that Swindon businesses raise is the trouble they have recruiting highly skilled workers

News
£122 million employment boost for people receiving...
National roll out for vital NHS service to help 100,000 people managing mental health issues find, s...
User Not Found Published: 10/10/22
Government urges businesses to take advantage of N...
Businesses hiring former members of the UK armed forces in their first year of civilian employment c...
User Not Found Published: 11/04/22
Dyson to hire 900 in the UK
Boost for local employment
User Not Found Published: 9/03/22
Leading UK business bosses help prison leavers get...
Business experts will spearhead a drive to get prison leavers into stable jobs so they can break the...
User Not Found Published: 3/03/22
Beard Construction seeking employees
Wide range of skills required.
User Not Found Published: 24/02/22
Wiltshire Council's labour market tool
Guide to employment requirements.
User Not Found Published: 15/12/21
Amazon Swindon depot employing 2,000
Company makes £2,000 sign-on offer
User Not Found Published: 30/11/21
GWP Packaging founder retires
Company sold recently for £15.1m
User Not Found Published: 4/10/21
Panattoni launches online consultation this weeken...
The project team wants to hear the local community’s view on the initial proposals for the site and ...
Tim Burghes Published: 13/08/21
Swindon expected to bounce back
Report predicts fast growth this year.
Joseph Palmer Published: 19/05/21
Want a Kickstart?
The Kickstart is a 6-month paid job with a local employer scheme and is funded by the Government. It...
Joseph Palmer Published: 21/09/20
Landmark Kickstart scheme opens
New £2 billion Kickstart scheme will create thousands of new jobs for young people.
Tim Burghes Published: 3/09/20
Slow but steady job market recovery in Swindon and...
An analysis of Swindon and Wiltshire job postings, using Labour Insights data, showed improvements f...
Tim Burghes Published: 1/09/20
Bath Spa University launches MentorMe
Mentoring a Bath Spa University student is a rewarding way of helping a talented individual bridge t...
Joseph Palmer Published: 27/08/20
Flagship business support programme launches in Sw...
£2.4m business support programme launches
Tim Burghes Published: 6/07/20
Community News
Siemens takes offices in Chippenham
Relocates its software development department
Tim Burghes Published: 6/06/19
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: for research a...
A fund to strengthen UK science and business innovation and take on the biggest challenges that soci...
Tim Burghes Published: 26/04/19
Royal Agricultural University to deliver cultural ...
The Royal Agricultural University will deliver a new postgraduate and professional training hub in S...
Tim Burghes Published: 8/02/19
New ministerial champion to back jobs, growth and ...
Lord Henley to provide local leaders with a single point of contact in the heart of government.
Tim Burghes Published: 8/02/19
National mentoring initiative to tackle employment...
Jobseekers across the UK are set to benefit from mentoring support designed to help them into work.
Tim Burghes Published: 18/01/19
guide
New entitlement to Parental Bereavement Leave and ...
A new workplace right to Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay for parents who lose a child under the a...
Tim Burghes Published: 12/12/18
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Register as an interested party in the Nationally ...
Up to date information with the proposed improvements to the A303 past Stonehenge.
Tim Burghes Published: 12/12/18
26,000 new businesses set up by entrepreneurial jo...
Jobseekers have set up more than 26,000 new businesses under the New Enterprise Allowance scheme.
Tim Burghes Published: 29/11/18
Minimum wage: work experience and internships
Guidance on the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage for organisations who offer work expe...
Tim Burghes Published: 16/11/18
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FSB welcomes visa cap relaxation
Responding to the expected relaxation of the Visa Cap for Tier 2, non UK, non EEA workers
Tim Burghes Published: 14/06/18
New Work Wiltshire website launched
An all new Work Wiltshire website aimed at people including, employers, young people, parents/carers...
Kristina Angelova Published: 17/09/17
EPSRC launches 'Inclusion Matters' call
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has launched an open, competitive cal...
Kristina Angelova Published: 17/09/17

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