The Mover December 2012

6 The Mover ● December 2012 ● www.themover.co.ukNEWS: UKCROWNRELOCATIONSDEVELOPSMIGRATIONBUSINESSCrown Relocations has hiredTony Vullo to develop thecompany’s migrant businessopportunities across the UK.Tony has been appointed asBusiness DevelopmentManager – Migrant Marketand will be responsible forincreasing revenue byforming strategic partnershipsacross a variety of sectors.With a strong background inbusiness and salesdevelopment, Tony willmanage the online sales team toensure its continued success, as wellas working with teams throughoutthe UK to identify opportunities fordeveloping links with individualslooking to move abroad.Alongside running the online teamto ultimately increase the number ofnew clients and referrals, Tony willwork closely with a number of industryassociatedpartners, includingbusinesses from the airline, personalfinance and visa and immigrationsectors, to increase and enhance CrownRelocations’ strategic alliances.Tony commented: “It’s great to beworking with so many people acrossthe business to drive the migrantmarket forward and I’m lookingforward to embracing the challengeof working in a different industry.Thousands of people leave the UKevery year for a new start abroad soI’ll be tapping into the migrant sceneand establishing trends to enable meto get into the minds of this targetaudience.”David Hollins, Regional GeneralManager – UK & Ireland, CrownRelocations said: “Tony’s appointmenthas come at an important time for thecompany. We welcome Tony’s experienceand knowledge and look forward toseeing him implement his strategyfor the relocation market.”● Tony Vullo.● The idea is to make it easier for companies to take on staff, thus boosting growth.‘Employee owner’ plansset out to boost growthA consultation setting out plans for a newemployment status called an ‘employeeowner’ was published on 18 October byBusiness Minister Jo Swinson.The move follows anannouncement by theChancellor on 8 Octoberand will provide companieswith a new option to increase theflexibility of how they hire peopleand help their companies grow.Under the new employmentstatus, employee owners will havea different set of employment rightsand they will be given shares in thecompany of between £2,000 and£50,000. Any increase in value ofthese shares will not be subject tocapital gains tax.Employees taken on this way willhave all of the rights associatedwith other employees except for:• Unfair dismissal rights (apartfrom automatically unfair reasonsand where dismissal is based ondiscriminatory grounds);• Rights to redundancy pay;• Certain statutory rights to requesttraining;• The statutory right to requestflexible working;• Employee owners will have to givemore notice to their employer oftheir intention to return frommaternity or adoption leave early.Business Minister Jo Swinson said:“We know that engaged employeesare more productive and motivated.This scheme increases the optionsfor business and brings greaterflexibility to companies andemployees in determining theiremployment relationship. Byresponding to the flexible needs offast growing companies, it will helpthem take people on, providing areal incentive for employers andemployees.”“We know thatengaged employeesare more productiveand motivated. Thisscheme increases theoptions for businessand brings greaterflexibility ...”Jo SwinsonIt will be entirely voluntary for theemployer to offer the new statusand for an individual to choose toaccept it. An employer will be ableto choose the new status and stillchoose to offer more rights to itsstaff, e.g. the right to requestflexible working or higher levels ofcontractual redundancy pay.Companies of any size will be ableto use this new kind of contract, butit is principally intended for fastgrowing small and medium-sizedcompanies that would benefit mostfrom a flexible workforce.The consultation on the proposalwas focussed on both employmentlaw and company law issues andclosed on 8 November, 2012. TheTreasury will be consulting on thetax matters separately.Legislation to bring in the newemployee owner contract wasintroduced via the Growth andInfrastructure Bill, with the aim ofcompanies being able to offer thenew type of contract from April 2013.BISHOP’SHELPED KEEPLONDON MOVINGTHIS SUMMERThis summer, Bishop’s Moveworked with The StagecoachGroup to help keep Londonmoving during the Jubileecelebrations and the Olympicseason.With assistance from Bishop’s Move,Stagecoach helped form thebackbone of transport acrossLondon during the Games. Bishop’s Movewas on hand to assist with this high profileassignment, transporting suitcases andholdalls to various hotels and campusesaround London, including a cruise ship whichwas docked near to London City Airport.In a contract that was worth in the regionof £50,000 to the removals company, Bishop’sMove helped keep the capital moving on atotal of six days during July, August andSeptember, when the number of visitors tothe Games was at its peak.Steve Burd, Managing Director ofStagecoach Midlands, commented: “I wouldlike to thank Bishop’s Move for their help andassistance with Stagecoach’s July, Augustand September moves and the helpful andpro-active manner in which the team dealtwith many of the necessary last minutechanges. Their assistance was muchappreciated.”Al Bingle, Bishop’s Move Managing Director,said: “We were delighted to be approachedby Stagecoach to assist in the delivery of asuccessful transportation programmethroughout what was an extremely busysummer in London. We are proud of thesmall role we played in making the Gamessuch a huge success and for helping thingsto run smoothly behind the scenes.”● Delighted to be approached - Bishop’s MoveManaging Director Al Bingle.