Author: Chamber of Commerce

RETRAINING ESSENTIAL AS 1 IN 5 FIRMS CONSIDER REDUNDANCIES POST-FURLOUGH

02 August in Business News, Chamber News

The BCC has called for government to extend skills training as new research showed nearly 1 in 5 companies are considering staff redundancies as the next phase of furlough tapering begins. With older workers much more likely to still be on furlough, there is concern that they could go unutilised unless support for retraining is immediately put in place. The survey, carried out by BCC, asked over...

REMOVAL OF QUARANTINE FOR DOUBLE JABBED EU AND US NATIONALS TO ENTER ENGLAND IS GREAT NEWS – BCC 

28 July in Business News, Chamber News

 Responding to the news that fully vaccinated travellers from the EU and US will not have to quarantine, British Chambers of Commerce Co-Executive Director, Claire Walker, said:        “For the hundreds of thousands of people directly employed in the travel industry and the many more that are part of supply chains, this will...

BCC SAYS MANY BUSINESSES FACE DIFFICULT WEEKS AHEAD DESPITE PLAN FOR SELF-ISOLATION EXEMPTIONS

23 July in Business News, Chamber News

Responding to an update on possible self-isolation exemptions for key workers in critical services, Hannah Essex, Co-Executive Director of the BCC, said:    “While the announcement of a process which may exempt select critical workers from self-isolation in England will be a relief to some businesses, it will leave many more still...