In a letter to Rishi Sunak earlier this week, Tory MP and Chair of the Treasury Committee Mel Stride, requested an explanation on Covid -19 tests carried out and paid for by employers being taxed as a benefit of employment. Just as hospitality businesses are reopening this tax on testing is another straw on camel’s backs already heavily laden. Current guidance from … [Read more...]
Covid Hub opens to support workplace reopening
Bartlett Mitchell has today announced the launch of a Covid Info Hub - giving clients, customers, team members and the wider industry a live portal where they can access support and information ahead of the reopening of the hospitality sector. The portal, which is hosted on the company’s website here, offers users advice, toolkits, videos, expert guides, and a risk … [Read more...]
Jess Glynne throws a major tantrum at Sexy Fish
Jess Glynne has taken to throwing a major tantrum on Instagram claiming she was a victim of ‘discrimination’ on being refused admission to Sexy Fish in London’s Mayfair. She was refused entry to the restaurant for being too scruffy. If you take a look at the image on the left, this is what she looked like at the time as she posted herself on Instagram mid tantrum. Surely … [Read more...]
Goldman Sachs Face Mask Report: Mandate could save US more than $1 Trillion
As countries around the world see second waves of Covid-19 lockdown emerge, Rishi Sunak, and UK hospitality business leaders will benefit from watching a new video, and reading a report we have reviewed by Goldman Sachs’ Chief Economist Jan Hatzius. In the video Hatzius explores the link between face masks and coronavirus outcomes, and the economic value of a national … [Read more...]
GMB accuse House of Commons bar of breaching Covid-19 Government guidelines
The union for catering staff working in the House of Commons, GMB’s London Region, is calling on catering management in the House of Commons to act responsibly and adhere to the regulations and government’s guidance on Covid-19. GMB union have five tests that need to be complied with before they can agree that a workplace – or an activity- can be agreed as safe. If … [Read more...]