The £76m Barton Square development in Manchester has focused on homewares with Marks and Spencer Home, Next Home, Dwell and Habitat signed up to the Manchester Shopping Centre.
Barton Square set to open in March 2008 will come with an additional 600 parking spaces to the current 10,000 free parking spaces at The Trafford Centre and will be linked with the existing centre by a pedestrian footbridge.
Nearly 2000 people are claiming £4.4 million in benefit because they are too fat to work, other payments include 10 people incapacitated by leprosy and 50 people due to acne. The picture gets worse when you take depression, stress and fatigue or ‘unknown’ diseases into account with 2,700,000 people claiming £7.4 billion…. Do you blame people for working the system or should the Government actually close these loop holes.
Incapacity benefit is available to anyone under state pension age who cannot work because of illness or disability. A person becomes eligible after they have been on statutory sick pay for eight weeks. The amount payable ranges from between £61.35 a week to £81.35 a week, compared with £59.15 jobseekers allowance. (src The Times)
The International coffee shop chain Starbucks announced increased investment and development in the UK today. They will be opening 100 new shops across the country which will lead to numbers of temp jobs across a number of different locations……watch this space!
A £15m refurbishment and extension planat the Tottenham Hale Retail Park in North London with three significant lettings. Asda Living has taken the largest unit on the park, this will be the first store inside the M25 for Asda’s homewares format.
This is the first ASDA Living inside of the M25 and is underlines the strength of the refurbishment, Next and JD Sports are also other key retailers to take up positions at the store, see below for the Tottenham Hale Retail Park.
There are about 1m temp and contract workers in Britain and they give business and the public sector a vital degree of flexibility. It is estimated that agency workers contribute just under £25 billion to the nation’s economy each year and the public sector depends on them.
Using an agency and temp and contract workers has many benifits for companies and the public sector. The agency handles all the paperwork and makes sure all workers are checked, interviewed and referenced, saving a lot of time for companies and the public sector.
Recent studies have suggested that temp workers tend to be happier than their permanenet counterparts. It was felt that this was down to the growing pressures on permanent jobs.
Temp workers do not have to worry about staying late and working after hours, their next promotion and they don’t have to ingratiate themselves with bosses. Due to this temp workers suffer less depression, have a better work-life balance, have lower levels of irritation and generally greater life satisfaction. So for a happier, stress free life be a temp.
