How employers can avoid getting it wrong on changes to workers’ rights
The Employment Rights Act 2025, passed on 18 December 2025, marked the start of the implementation of many significant employment law changes over 2026/2027.Described by the TUC general secretary Paul...
THE BUSINESS OF HOUSING 2026: More Homes Scotland must be a delivery machine
At The Business’s The Business of Housing 2026 conference, one word kept coming up: delivery. In particular, the d-word was said by many as the metric by which the Scottish...
Housing supremo McAllan faces grim 2026 as new builds plummet
Scotland’s Housing Secretary Màiri McAllan will face intense political pressure if she fails to make serious inroads into tackling Scotland’s housing emergency as 2026 gets underway.While she recently visited Social...
Penalties await businesses over fraud
The new ‘failure to prevent fraud’ guidance for Scottish businesses introduces strict liability for large organisations, demanding proactive fraud risk management and cultural change.The UK’s Failure to Prevent Fraud offence...