HARRISBURG - An Allegheny County state legislator wants all full-time workers in Pennsylvania to get 6 1/2 days of paid sick time per year, an idea that is going over well with labor unions and women’s groups but not so well with some business owners. Currently, 46 percent of workers in [ Read More → ]

Changes to benefits hidden in the Con-Dems’ budget will hit those suffering with serious illnesses hardest. Plans to change the way working tax credit is calculated will leave people diagnosed with cancer or any other serious illness up to £20 a week worse off – and will deny them hundreds of [ Read More → ]

Good leadership skills are vital for success – to inspire and motivate staff, especially during these tough times. We’ve teamed up with Martin Stiven, vice president of business at Orange, to bring you his top tips for leading a team – Orange sponsors the Leader of the Year Award at the [ Read More → ]

Viaduct Capital’s receivers say security sharing deeds (SSDs) on some of the company’s loans, which have bumped them down the repayment pecking order, and the demise of Mutual Finance which was the recipient of some of these SSDs, are likely to reduce the amount of money they can recover. The Auckland-based [ Read More → ]

Allied Nationwide Finance’s efforts to satisfy its trustee, over what the trustee deems to be a breach of the finance company’s Trust Deed, are going to the wire with no announcement likely today. Bryan Connor, general manager for corporate trusts at trustee Guardian Trust, said not to expect an announcement on [ Read More → ]

It’s nearly four months since stocks reached their 2010 highs and began falling on investors’ doubts about the economic recovery. Some analysts say it could be another year before investors get up enough confidence to restart the rally. The economy isn’t helping them. Last week, the Federal Reserve and two mass-market [ Read More → ]

A year ago, Stephen Udden was laid off, a victim of outsourcing when the telecommunications company where he worked as a software engineer project manager moved operations overseas, and his office in the United States was shuttered. The Foxborough resident has since been updating his skills. He has received business strategy [ Read More → ]

There are a lot of bank fees that deserve the “Slater Slide.’’ Steven Slater is the JetBlue flight attendant who allegedly cursed a rude passenger and then opened an emergency exit and jumped down the aircraft’s slide. He slid into infamy or history — depending on your take on [ Read More → ]

By handing over the reported £4.6 million advance to charity, his personal tax bill will be cut from £2.3 million, according to leading accountants Grant Thornton. However, he will still be out of pocket because the money he has earned has gone to charity, they said. Mike Warburton, of accountants Grant Thornton, said: [ Read More → ]

As The Telegraph has revealed over recent weeks, the level of charges really needs to be a factor when it comes to making an investment decision. Our exposé is backed up by new research just published in America on US funds. As we report elsewhere, a report by the leading [ Read More → ]