Legislation

UKH and BBPA to fight ‘frankly outrageous’ £49m music fee hike

14-Jun-2019 By Stuart Stone

UKHospitality (UKH) and the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) are to refer the increase in recorded music tariffs to the Copyright Tribunal for independent review.

How much do pub staff police the streets?

14-Jun-2019 By Robert Mann

Operators, especially those with multiple sites, are spending big to ensure customer safety, on door staff as well as CCTV focusing on the streets outside. With police funding under constant pressure, who is really policing our streets?

Avoid these five legal breaches

10-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Regularly selling alcohol to underage customers and illegally employing workers practices are among the most problematic situations for site operators that can land them in prison, according to expert licensing solicitors.

BPC labels dilapidations group ‘wholly inappropriate’

10-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

A row has erupted over the representatives appointed to a new group investigating the management of dilapidations under the pubs code.

More opportunities for prisoners to work in pubs after rule changes

07-Jun-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Pubcos have welcomed rule changes meaning they will be able to offer prisoners more work and training opportunities.

UK Hospitality bangs battle drum louder one year in

03-Jun-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Following its creation last year, UK Hospitality has pledged to fight harder than ever for the trade as chief executive Kate Nicholls outlines the industry’s strengths in an anniversary statement.

Migration reform ‘needs to go further’ to support hospitality

31-May-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Recommendations to relax migration restrictions for jobs with skills shortages would not do enough to help the hospitality sector, trade bodies have claimed.

Opinion

What really is behind the 2,000-per-year pub decline?

30-May-2019 By Ted Bruning

It goes without saying (doesn’t it?) that a reduction in beer duty would help Britain’s pubs, currently disappearing at a rate approaching 2,000 a year?

Move to axe EU migrant salary threshold welcomed

23-May-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Reports that the Government will look to move away from a £30,000 salary threshold for EU workers moving to the UK in future policy have been welcomed by hospitality trade bodies.

Pubs ‘exempt’ from ban on plastic straws

22-May-2019 By Stuart Stone

Environment secretary Michael Gove has confirmed that a ban on single-use plastic coming into force in April 2020 will still allow pubs and bars to provide plastic straws to disabled customers on request.

Pub operator banned for 11 years after £7.9m in unpaid taxes

21-May-2019 By Stuart Stone

The operator of nine pubs across Derby and Nottingham has been disqualified from running a company for 11 years.

Late-night levies branded ‘a complete misstep’

20-May-2019 By Stuart Stone

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) and UKHospitality (UKH) have slammed the possible introduction of late-night levies in response to consultations by Southwark and Redbridge borough councils.

Scotland’s deposit return scheme won’t force pubs to increase prices

09-May-2019 By Stuart Stone

Industry bodies have reacted to the launch of a 20p deposit on drinks cans and bottles in Scotland by calling for a ‘UK-wide’ solution.

British Pub Confederation outlines three steps to ‘genuine MRO’

02-May-2019 By Stuart Stone

As the Government launches its first statutory review of the pubs code, chair of the British Pub Confederation, and former MP, Greg Mulholland has demanded the lack of “genuine” market-rent-only (MRO) option be addressed.

Pubs underpaying workers ‘should be named and shamed’

02-May-2019 By Emily Hawkins

The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has urged the Government to restart regularly naming employers who are found underpaying the minimum wage.