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Hibernian proud to announce NHS thank you

Hibernian FC is today delighted to announce that the Club will proudly bear the words “Thank You NHS” on the front of our new shirts when next season does get underway. The Club decided to take the opportunity to express the thanks of the entire Hibernian and football community to…

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Historic Environment Scotland launch Learn at Home Initiative

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is launching a free online educational resource to help support home educators and learners during the Coronavirus lockdown – including free access to its Scran website featuring around 400,000 archive images and materials. The HES Learning programme helps people at all stages of their lifelong learning journey access…

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Redundancy during coronavirus: Part 1: How Do I Deal With Collective Consultation?

At present the funding by the Government under the Job Retention Scheme is only set to last until the end of June. Inevitably, even once the current lockdown is lifted there will be a reduced need for some business services and some employers may require to look at making redundancies…

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ScotRail staff charity work continues through Coronavirus

ScotRail staff are not letting the current Coronavirus pandemic get in the way of their charitable giving and fundraising efforts. Groups of employees across the country are continuing to raise money for the train operator’s charity partner, MND Scotland, as well as for NHS charities and foodbanks – ensuring that…

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Getting tourism ready for recovery

Edinburgh Napier University and Scottish Enterprise aim to help small businesses bounce back A call has gone out to those with skills, expertise and experience, who are currently ‘furloughed’ or on a reduced working pattern, to help address the challenges facing Scotland’s tourism sector. In 2017, the sector provided employment…

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Local businessman’s ‘Seven Days of Lockdown Cheer’ brings gift-wrapped smiles to some of West Lothian’s most vulnerable families

One of West Lothian’s most prominent entrepreneurs has stepped in to help support some of the region’s most vulnerable families hit by the COVID-19 lockdown. ‘Seven Days of Lockdown Cheer’ commenced earlier this week. The idea is the brainchild of Michael Field, managing director of Workflo Solutions in Livingston. Michael…

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Supply chain capacity likely to be the biggest risk to industry post COVID-19, warns Arcadis

Arcadis downgrades tender price forecast to 0% for 2020 in light of unprecedented market challenges Unique market factors mean that inflationary and deflationary forces will act side by side – limiting the risk of a damaging deflationary spiral Industry must look ahead to business recovery and act now to preserve…

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Partnership all set for new food distribution network

A food distribution network to support Edinburgh’s most vulnerable citizens is set to be rolled out thanks to a unique partnership between the City of Edinburgh Council, third sector organisation EVOC and the wider community and voluntary sector. The plans will see over 3,000 emergency food parcels delivered across the…

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activpayroll Joins Ultimate Software’s UltiPro® Connect Partners Program

activpayroll, global payroll specialist, announced today that it has joined Ultimate Software’s UltiPro Connect Partners program. The new partnership gives activpayroll and Ultimate the ability to integrate their solutions to make it easier for mutual customers to exchange data between the UltiPro HCM solution and activ8. activpayroll provides scalable and…

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Staying connected during the coronavirus outbreak

People Know How have partnered up with Venture Scotland, Change Recruitment Group and the Taranata Group, Edinburgh Palette, the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Remakery to get computers and internet connection to those who need them during the current coronavirus outbreak. #StayHome Over the last few weeks the coronavirus…

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