CBI targets employment law

Employers' body the Confederation of British Industry will today unveil plans to revolutionise employment rights by introducing an “alternative to redundancy” (ATR) scheme to get workers to stay at home in return for £128 a week.

Ogston to capitalise on contacts at equity firm

Jack Ogston, who retires as head of corporate and structured finance for Clydesdale Bank in Scotland this month, is to use his extensive contacts to help Glasgow private equity firm Maven Capital Partners build its co-investment business with wealthy individuals and companies.

Rose in firing line as M&S investors plan protest vote

The simmering discontent over Sir Stuart Rose’s powerful role at high street retailer Marks & Spencer will emerge once more at the company’s annual meeting this week with investors planning a protest vote.

	Fed pressured to peg interest rates
	Analysis: Top Federal Reserve officials are piling pressure on Ben Bernanke to keep US interest rates pegged in the present range of zero to 0.25% indefinitely.

Andrew is signing up for success as business helps deaf

SME Focus: However tough the times have been lately, a report by the accountancy firm Grant Thornton and the Economist Intelligence Unit today confirms the pool of entrepreneurs has carried on expanding.

Culture collision threat to banking

AS more data emerge it becomes ever clearer that this recession is worse than anything we have experienced for several decades and that its impact will endure for many years to come - not least in terms of the public finances!

France and Russia call for debate on reserve currencies

France and Russia yesterday called for a debate about the world’s reserve currencies saying the current system, which is dominated by the dollar, was out of date.

	Shareholders ruffle feathers at Tesco AGM
	Tesco shareholders jolted the UK's biggest supermarket group yesterday after more than 40% of those voting at its annual meeting in Glasgow opposed changes to its share option scheme.

Glasgow firm set to benefit from Mandelson’s fund

A Glasgow company is poised to become the first to benefit from an investment by UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson's Capital for Enterprise fund, The Herald has learned.

Concern as service sector expansion begins to slow

Doubts over the sustainability of emerging growth in the UK’s service sector intensified yesterday when a key survey revealed a slight slowing of expansion last month from May’s modest pace and a renewed fall in firms’ new business inflows.

Soccer centre’s profits hit by early year snow

After a week in which much of the country cowered from the heat, five-a-side football operator Goals Soccer Centres yesterday told investors that snow has cost it some profits.

UK still faces a long slog to recovery

Fear over the sustainability of any UK economic recovery were fuelled further yesterday by a key survey which indicated nascent growth in the dominant service sector might prove short-lived.

Scot JCB owner is ‘confident’ despite 11% drop in sales

The man in charge of one of the country’s leading suppliers of equipment to builders said he saw no prospect of an upturn this year and warned that the construction industry might not return to the levels of activity seen during the boom for years.

Man who gives credit where it’s due

We can provide the services that a bank can provide, but we do it in some ways like the banks used to do … so says Rod Ashley, head of the West of Scotland’s 20,000-member credit union ScotWest

Online investors return to market in numbers

Stock market bargain-hunting has seen the return of the online private investor this year, with a 20% rise in online trading in the first quarter and a customer overflow leaving some firms struggling to cope.

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