Introduction of additional paternity leave and pay
Additional paternity leave and pay will come into force from 3 April 2011, eligible employees will gain the right to additional paternity leave and pay (APL&P).
The right will apply where:
Additional paternity leave (APL) will allow an employee to take up to 26 weeks’ leave to care for the child.
The employee will only be able to start their APL:
Backing Small Business
The government has announced further plans to help small and medium-sized businesses to flourish and to encourage entrepreneurship. CJAM specialise in outsourcing to support SMEs contact our management team to find out more.
Set out within the Backing Small Business report, released on 1 November, are six steps to support small businesses:
– Improving access to finance
– Opening up government procurement and ensuring prompt payment
– Supporting those starting a business
– Making sure competition framework helps new companies
– Providing targeted support to those that have high-growth potential
– Ensuring that the government is deliberately reoriented towards their needs
In difficult economic times online marketing provides a cost-effective way to reach customers. Digital marketing has become one of the most powerful and effective tools for many of CJAM’s clients. As part of an integrated association and not for profit management solution or as a stand alone service, our digital marketing platforms can help you achieve a wide range of marketing objectives including accurate segmentation and targeting, increased brand awareness or customer relationship development.
Our digital solutions are much more cost effective than traditional direct marketing and provide accurate, instant feedback helping you to constantly tailor and improve the effectiveness of campaigns.
Business groups welcome Employers’ Charter
The government has set out measures designed to give businesses, especially SMEs, added confidence to expand and create jobs.
Reforms to employment tribunals will increase the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims from 1 to 2 years. Last year tribunal claims rose by a record 56% to 236,000, and the average cost for a business defending itself against a claim was £4,000. The changes will reduce unmerited tribunal claims and encourage employers and employees to seek mediation to resolve disputes.
While today’s revised economic growth forecast by the Bank of England may have us thinking that we need to tighten our belts even more, it also highlights the difficulties involved in business planning, budgeting and projections.
So Chancellor George Osborne has outlined his plans for £6.2 billion of spending cuts to address the budget deficit. It looks like many areas of the public sector will now face a dramatic shake up in order to maintain (or even improve) service levels with their new reduced funding.
We are pleased to announce that we are now members of the Institute of Association Management