Archive for September, 2009

The CBI has criticised the government’s pledge to continue raising the national minimum wage saying it will undermine the role of the Low Pay Commission.  Read the full article on Personnel Today.

The Regulations increase the rate of the national minimum wage. The main rate rises from £5.73 per hour to £5.80 per hour and the development rate from £4.77 per hour to £4.83 per hour. The rate for workers aged 16 to 17 years increases from £3.53 to £3.57 per hour. The Regulations also specify new classes of persons who do not qualify for the national minimum wage and increase the day value of the accommodation amount that can be taken into account where an employer provides an employee with housing from £4.46 to £4.51.The Regulations can be viewed on the OPSI website.

This is the third of the Thames Valley Chamber’s Technology for Business Forums and you can book until midday today.

For the third Technology for Business Forum of the year, we are delighted that Microsoft is hosting the event. Again sponsored by Conjungo, the aim of this forum is to share best practice, raise industry issues and give insight into different areas of technology.

Panel of speakers:

Ross Walker, territory sales manager at Symantec
The latest thinking on the Internet threat landscape
Tiffany Kemp, managing director of Devant Ltd
Good IT Procurement – buying IT solutions that deliver
Andrew Twigg, senior sales consultant, Creative Computing Solutions Ltd
Making the most of the software you have
Andrew Brook Holmes, Microsoft
New world of work for small businesses

For more info go to http://www.thamesvalleychamber.co.uk/event/43899/