Staff would turn down promotion to keep flexibility at work Retail Half of the UK’s part-time staff would turn down a promotion if it meant losing the flexibility of their current role, according to fresh polling, leading industry chiefs to warn against an overzealous crackdown on agile working. The Yougov data, commissioned by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and shared exclusively with Morning Wire, found exactly [...]
Hollywood Bowl boss: ‘Incredibly painful’ tax hikes make it harder to hire Retail The boss of Hollywood Bowl has hit out at Labour’s “incredibly painful” hikes to national insurance and the minimum wage for making it harder to employ workers. Stephen Burns, chief executive of the UK’s largest tenpin bowling operator, told Morning Wire that Labour policy has made it “significantly more expensive to employ somebody than it [...]
Next boss slams Labour’s zero-hour contracts crackdown Retail The boss of Next has slammed the government’s crackdown on zero-hour contracts and called on Labour to unwind its “employment taxes”. Lord Simon Wolfson, chief executive of the FTSE 100 retailer, said the government’s plans to force employers to offer guaranteed hours to those on flexible contracts will make it “much harder” for Next to [...]