The implementation of the Agency Workers’s Directive will be delayed until December 2011, should the Conservative Party win the next general election.

At the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Anne Fairweather, head of public policy at the REC, told Recruiter that shadow minister for corporate governance and business regulation Jonathan Djanogly said the directive would cost British businesses £40bn over the next decade and consequently the Conservatives would campaign against early implementation. (more…)

Contractors who use a limited company to run their contracting business will already have experienced some of the changes resulting from the Companies Act 2006, which completely updated and modernised 150 years of company law.

The final phase comes into force on 1 October 2009, with those measures most likely to have an effect on contractors including:

• An easier incorporation process
• Changes to all the standard forms
• Increases in the Registrar of Companies’ powers
• Directors’ service addresses and company register addresses
• Changes to the rules about limited company names
• A ‘Statement of Capital’. (more…)