The Department for Business has now issued a consultation paper on additional paternity leave, which will come into force April next year - it will give fathers further paid time off, businesses have 12 months to plan for the potential disruption.
Risk Management is a key word within the boardroom, increasing regulation, corporate responsibility, and financial pressure suggests that prudent companies manage risk more rigorously than ever.
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The balance between risk and reward is the very essence of business: you have to take risks in order to generate returns and, generally speaking, higher returns involve greater risks. Whether an organisation has a high appetite for risk or is ultra-conservative when it come to taking risks there is a great deal of difference between risks taken as a result of careful judgement and those unwittingly.
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