Here are a few of the announcements made by PM Rishi Sunak on the last day of the Conservative Party Conference. Big news for the construction industry, the North, teen smokers and students Rishi Sunak announced at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester that he would be scrapping the second phase of HS2, the high-speed […]

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Richard Howson, who was the Chief Executive Officer of Carillion Plc until 10 July 2017, has been disqualified as a director for 8 years, the UK Insolvency Service has reported An Insolvency Service spokesperson said The Insolvency Service, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, has accepted a disqualification undertaking […]

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Earnings of self-employed tradespeople bucked the annual trend of an August slow-down. Hudon Contract, a payroll business catering to sub-contractors in the trade, puts this nice boost down to more infrastructure projects coming online and the longer-term impacts of the workforce post-Brexit. See which regions and trade skills of the UK are boasting the most […]

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SPECIAL REPORT Builders had the highest annual turnover among self-employed UK tradespeople in 2021, according to new research. However, not all is rosy for the sector.   According to the ONS, self-employed men in construction are three times more likely to take their own life, which equates to two people committing suicide each day. The […]

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Construction contractors, engineers, architects and zero-carbon experts should be at the heart of the UK’s planning reform so that the Prime Minister’s good intentions don’t backfire. There is a call for all projects to embrace the lessons learned during the pandemic’s lockdown: the economy thrives when there’s a sense of community where we live, work, […]

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Active job adverts in the UK have returned to pre-COVID levels. But who’s calling the shots: workers or employers? After weeks of sustained growth, June so far has seen a total of 1.63 million active job adverts in the UK, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC)’s Jobs Recovery Tracker. This is 300,000 more than […]

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The majority of construction workers in the UK are not saving towards their retirement, research by Unite, the UK’s construction union, has found. “These figures are deeply troubling. With the majority of construction workers not saving for retirement, we are creating a destitute generation of future pensioners,” said Jerry Swain, Unite national officer for construction. […]

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Those freelancers and business owners that have had to make a professional indemnity claim over the course of the pandemic, such as wedding photographer Lucy English* have seen the benefits of cover both to preserving their professional reputation and bank balance, according to PolicyBee’s annual claims report. Many freelancers will question whether the cost of […]

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Stamp duty may well be the “worst tax on the UK’s statute books” and it might be high time the government “abolished” it, proposed a data analyst with the Centre for Policy Studies. Jethro Elsden a data analyst and an author of a recent report published by the think tank highlights the economic damage that […]

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Pimlico Plumbers Chairman Charlie Mullins thinks it is a “no brainer” that all his staff should be vaccinated against the coronavirus. He is willing to go one step further and encourage mandatory vaccination against the virus written into all new and eventually existing employees’ contracts. But can a jab be mandatory? “Just to be clear, […]

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