Newsletter
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Issue 15 - 16th April 2021
Welcome note from Sue Robinson
Lockdown restrictions have been eased across the UK in the past week, allowing dealers to safely welcome back customers in a Covid compliant environment. Where restrictions remain on showrooms being able to fully re-open, we will continue to work with the devolved authorities, officials, and ministers to ensure that they can as soon as it is safe to do so. The NFDA HR Working Group was held on 15 April...
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16th April 2021
MILS CASE STUDY: Dismissing an Employee Due to Age
My Business has changed due to coronavirus and I now don’t have enough work going forward. I have an aging technician (Jeff) who isn’t as quick and has started to make a few mistakes. I wondered...
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16th April 2021
DVSA Getting Stricter About Personal Details for MOT...
This year's annual assessment ends 30 April 2021. Testers should ensure annual assessment details are recorded correctly against their profile with a score of 80% or above. There are still testers...
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16th April 2021
Covid-19 drives Londoners behind the wheel sooner than...
London dwellers are now more likely to buy a car sooner than planned than in any other region of the UK as a result of Covid-19. New figures from Close Brothers Motor Finance, shared exclusively with...
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16th April 2021
EU and UK hold ‘productive’ talks on Northern Ireland crisis
Talks between the EU and UK to ease tensions in Northern Ireland have been described as “productive” and “constructive” with momentum now established to achieve a solution to the crisis, the Brexit...
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16th April 2021
ONS - 17% of businesses' workforce on furlough leave at the...
• 73% of businesses had been trading for more than the last two weeks (broadly unchanged from Wave 27) • 3% of businesses had started trading within the last two weeks after a pause in trading (an...
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16th April 2021
5 minutes with… Ben fund-raising director, Matt Wigginton
What was the immediate impact of COVID? It made us invisible. Not to just the people we were so eager to reach, but right across the industry. We could no longer make people directly aware of our...
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16th April 2021
Weekly News Digest
Consumer demand for new cars accelerates in April, says Auto Trader – AM Online Data from Auto Trader suggests consumer demand for new and used cars is growing rapidly with a third of in-market...
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