Rishi Sunak's government is attempting to introduce tough new laws that would further limit the right to take industrial action amid continuing strikes in the UK. This is just the latest in a long line of legislation brought in over the past 50 years that has almost completely eroded such rights.
Police to adopt new 'Clear, Hold, Build' tactic, as Home Secretary launches consultation on new offences to frustrate criminal enterprises. Efforts to clamp down on organised criminal gangs and drive illegal drugs and violent crime from our communities, are being stepped up by the government today.
The international delivery expert ParcelHero says retailers should benefit from falling air and ocean freight rates this year. More businesses may also jump from airfreight to ocean transport as shipping rates tumble, but will consumers get to pocket the difference? Global freight rates will continue to fall for the first half of 2023, says the international delivery expert ParcelHero.
Merger raises the spectre of a private equity black hole on the UK high street, says GMB Union Asda merger talks which could see the company combine its petrol and supermarket divisions have prompted fresh calls from GMB to expand the powers of the competition and markets authority (CMA). The billionaire owners of Issa brothers are exploring a merger of the supermarket and their UK petrol forecourts business in a blockbuster deal that would create a retail giant worth more than £10 billion.
From 1978 to 79, public sector workers in the UK engaged in nationally coordinated strike action. The news was full of stories of limited services at hospitals because domestic cleaners were striking and streets were strewn with rubbish because of striking binmen.
Government launches crackdown on controversial dismissal tactics through a planned statutory code of practice. Plans for a new statutory code will crack down on unscrupulous employers that use controversial dismissal tactics courts to be given power to apply a 25% uplift to an employee's compensation in certain circumstances if an employer doesn't follow the new Code.
Millions of customers still to file their Self Assessment tax return with one week left until the deadline. With one week to go until the deadline, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is urging fewer than 3.4 million customers to get their Self Assessment tax return done.
Today, Amazon workers in Coventry will make history, says GMB Union Amazon workers will stage the first ever strike in the UK today [25 January 2023]. Hundreds of Amazon workers at the fulfilment centre have voted to walk out in anger over the company's 50 pence per hour pay offer.
Scottish Government has released the latest house building supply figures from National Statistics of Scotland. New housebuilding There were 21,825 all-sector new build homes completed in Scotland in the year to end June 2022, according to quarterly statistics on housebuilding and affordable housing supply published today by Scotland's Chief Statistician.
The UK's net worth increased by £1.0 trillion to £11.8 trillion in 2021; the largest annual increase on record, with land accounting for over 60% of net worth. The UK's net worth grew by 9.2% in 2021, revised up by 3.1 percentage points since the preliminary estimate, surpassing the pre-2008 financial crisis average growth rate of 8.3%.
Public sector borrowing (PSNB ex) in December 2022 was £27.4 billion, the highest December figure since monthly records began in January 1993, largely because of a sharp rise in spending on energy support schemes and an increase in debt interest. December's borrowing was £16.7 billion higher than that of December 2021 and £9.8 billion higher than the latest official forecast published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR); largely because of student loans assumptions made by the OBR (see Section 3).
When England's Food Standards Agency boss Susan Jebb recently compared eating cake at work to passive smoking, office cubicle walls across the land quivered. She told The Times: "If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do bring cakes in, I eat them.
A recent survey found that there are over 4.1 million vans on UK roads today. If you're driving a van for business or personal use, certain rules of the road must be obeyed.
The future of Southend United Football Club hangs in the balance. A petition by His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to have the club wound up over unpaid tax liabilities has just been adjourned by the high court until March.
The UK government has today also set out more detail on which households will be eligible to receive £200 of support under its Alternative Fuel Payments (AFP) scheme, with the vast majority of eligible households due to receive the payment automatically from 6 February. The scheme will deliver £200 to households who use alternative fuels such as biomass, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or heating oil, helping around 2 million off-grid households to meet their energy costs this winter.
New aviation ambassadors to inspire young people to pursue a rewarding and successful career in aviation. new cohort of ‘aviation ambassadors' announced to help inspire next generation to take up rewarding careers in the sector.
The UK Space Agency has announced £50 million of funding for ambitious and innovative projects that will supercharge the UK's satellite communications industry. The UK Space Agency has announced £50 million of funding for ambitious and innovative projects that will supercharge the UK's satellite communications industry.
With Cervical Cancer Prevention Week starting today, UKHSA urges young people to catch up on any missed HPV vaccinations. The latest UK Health Security Agency UKHSA report on the routine adolescent human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme for 2021 to 2022, which is primarily delivered in schools, shows that coverage in year 8 and year 9 pupils is yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.
The government has laid secondary legislation to further tighten controls for poisons and chemicals which can be used to make explosives. Today (23 January 2023) the government has laid secondary legislation to further tighten controls for poisons and chemicals which can be used to make explosives, also known as ‘explosives precursors', by updating the Poisons Act 1972.
The heads of G7 Export Credit Agencies release a joint statement expressing support for Ukraine. Acknowledging the G7 Leaders' Statement on Support for Ukraine, as heads of the official export credit agency (ECA) schemes of the G7 nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America – we wish to express our ongoing support for Ukraine and for its reconstruction efforts and our unwavering solidarity with the Ukrainian people for as long as it takes.
