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Monday, April 1, 2019
BESA’s welfare benefit and pensions subsidiary, Welplan Ltd, is to begin to close its master trust pension scheme, which has operated successfully in the H&V and associated industry sectors since 1988. The company will re-focus on increasing investment in and growing its long-standing employee benefits schemes providing sickness, accident, death and other benefits to a wide range of...
Read MoreMonday, March 25, 2019
BESCA, which acts as a certification body as part of the wider BESA Group, is a member of the Association of British Certification Bodies (ABCB). As such it has had early sight of the proposed new British Standard, BS9009:2019 – Public sector procurement – Generic requirements for organizations providing products and services. In essence, if a company wants to tender for a public sector...
Read MoreFriday, March 15, 2019
The National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW) are as follows with effect from 1 April 2019: National Living Wage (workers aged 25 and older) Increased from £7.83 to £8.21 per hour. National Minimum Wage workers aged 21 to 24 increased from £7.38 to £7.70 per hour. workers aged 18 to 20 increased from £5.90 to £6.15 per hour. young workers (non-apprentices aged...
Read MoreFriday, March 1, 2019
Applying for Engineering Services SKILLcards has been made easier and quicker following the launch of a new, online service. The Engineering Services SKILLcard is operated by BESA and is held by more than 60,000 people working in the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration sectors. It provides evidence that they have the required training and qualifications for the type of work...
Read MoreFriday, February 22, 2019
BESA has urged the government to make urgent provision to avert potential workforce shortages in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit next month. It backs recommendations made by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) to review the rules governing the 165,000 EU citizens currently employed by the construction industry to ensure valuable skills are not lost to the UK economy. In particular, BESA...
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