Covid-19

Scottish law firm Gilson Gray is warning businesses that complying with COVID-19 health and safety workplace guidance to allow employees to return to work is much more than a box-ticking exercise. With employers looking to begin a return to work for staff over the next few weeks and months, the firm

The HFD Group - the developer behind 177 Bothwell Street in Glasgow - is implementing a series of health and wellbeing measures that will see the pre-let Virgin Money offices within the building reflect the new post-COVID-19 reality of working life. With human touch identified as a major f

NatWest Group, the owner of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has launched a £1 million fund to support victims of economic and domestic abuse, in a new partnership with SafeLives. SafeLives is a UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.

A parliamentary inquiry into the impact of coronavirus on the Scottish Government’s Budget for 2021/22 has been announced by Holyrood’s finance and constitution committee.

A total of 8.9 million workers are now covered by the UK Government's furlough scheme, according to the UK Treasury. 

Barclays has launched a toolkit to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Scotland and the UK get back on their feet as they navigate the uncertainty created by coronavirus. The ‘Barclays Back to Business’ programme has been designed in partnership with the Cambridge Judge

The UK Government has announced that it will delay the introduction of the reverse charge VAT because of the impact it will have on firms who are dealing with the financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement delaying the introduction of the scheme until 1 March 2021 follows an ear

Business activity in Scotland's private sector continued to decline substantially in May, as lockdown restrictions continued to disrupt the economy, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland PMI. The seasonally adjusted headline Royal Bank of Scotland Business Activity Index - a measure of comb

North-east financial advisors Phil Anderson Financial Services has been rewarding key workers and NHS staff by giving away over £1,000 worth of gin.

Allied Irish Bank (GB) has donated £2,000 to charities in Scotland to support communities through the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Edinburgh branch has donated £1,000 to Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids, while the Glasgow team gave £1,000 to the Peek Project in the east end of the

Family-owned Crieff Hydro Group has announced that 241 members of staff will be made redundant at the start of August. The firm which owns seven rural hotels is planning to cut over a quarter of its staff across the group's hotel portfolio.

Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has appointed Derek Gemmell as head of construction & property and Stuart Rose as head of construction & property strategy as it prepares for the construction sector to re-open after lockdown. Both Mr Gemmel and Mr Rose have significant experience in t

Dundee-based restructuring and insolvency specialists Dunedin Advisory believes that using existing legislation with the use of a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) and the provisions within the new restructuring bill currently being considered by parliament may be more readily used

Scotland’s economy faces a gradual recovery from the coronavirus crisis, according to updated modelling published by the Scottish Government today.

Permanent job placements and temporary billings continued to fall sharply across Scotland in May, according to the Royal Bank of Scotland's Scottish Labour Market Report.