Travis Perkins to train 10,000 apprentices to address ‘critical industry skills gap’ March 8, 2023 Travis Perkins has revealed plans to train 10,000 apprentices by 2030. The building materials firm said it hopes the target will help address a “critical industry skills gap” and develop skills needed to help deliver new homes and infrastructure. Nick Roberts, chief executive of the company, said the ambition will bring “fresh talent” and improve [...]
When recessions hit and policy breaks down, we need charities to fill the gap January 31, 2023 When governments fail to act, someone else must step in. These organisations, like the network of homelessness charities at St Martin-in-the-Fields, are London's unsung heroes, writes Elena Siniscalco
Identify your governance, risk and compliance gaps June 7, 2022 Financial services firms must prepare themselves for the regulatory challenges ahead. Anticipating potential risk is vital, be it the Ukraine conflict, runaway inflation or the faltering post-pandemic economic recovery. Governance, risk and compliance professionals are required to manage these external pressures in the context of a hyper-competitive job market, an expanding regulatory and environmental, social [...]
Halfords boss urges govt to help with labour market gap as profit guidance shrinks January 12, 2023 Halfords’ chief executive Graham Stapleton has called on the government to help fill a gap in the labour market as the group reduced its profit guidance from £60m to £50m. Stapleton said it couldn’t get “enough qualified technicians into our garages to meet demand” and that was hurting growth. According to the chief executive, the [...]
Soaring inflation risks creating UK property ‘insurance gap’ August 25, 2022 SOARING inflation in the construction sector threatens to create a major “insurance gap” amongst UK policyholders, London headquartered insurer Chaucer has warned. Sharp increases in the costs of building materials could leave homes and businesses underinsured, as policies fail to cover the cost of repairing and rebuilding damaged properties, research carried out by the Lloyd’s of [...]
Cisco chief says apprentices can plug digital skills gap September 30, 2022 Chief of Cisco UK said more needs to be done to plug the digital skills gap, putting greater focus on early careers. Speaking to City A.M., David Meads said the apprenticeship levy is a specific area of policy that could be reformed to drive better productivity in the tech sphere, echoing Keir Starmer’s stance earlier [...]
TUC urges action on gender pensions gap May 19, 2022 Unions are stepping up calls to tackle the “huge problem” of the gender pension gap after a study suggested that in many industries women have workplace pensions worth less than a fifth of male colleagues. The TUC dubbed Thursday ‘gender pensions gap day’, when it estimated that women pensioners start getting paid because retired women [...]
Gender pay gap grows in past year but is – slowly – falling in the longer term October 27, 2022 The gender pay gap has grown over the past year as inflation sweeps the UK, but a longer-term trend reveals that the figure is – albeit slowly – declining. The difference in pay between men and women stood at 8.3 per cent in April of this year, up from 7.7 per cent in the same month a year prior, according to [...]
How can fintech close its gender pay gap? Top chiefs say regulation could be key April 17, 2023 Regulators should step in to help narrow a gender pay gap in the fintech sector or female leaders will continue to be shut out from top jobs, some of the UK’s top female fintech chiefs have warned.
Gender pay gap: Women who have children work two months free every year February 23, 2023 The gender pay gap is almost 15 per cent, and widens “dramatically” after women have children, according to the TUC. The TUC said its study suggested that the average woman in paid employment effectively works for free for nearly two months of the year compared to the average man. The gender pay gap means that [...]