The RMT has rejected an offer from rail employers aimed at heading off more strikes. The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) offered the union a pay rise of 8% over two years with a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies to April ...
UK hopes that controversial Brexit checks on goods crossing the Irish sea can be eliminated have risen after early analysis of government data showed that at least 85% of goods arriving in Northern Ireland from Great Britain stay in factories ...
Employees are to get the right to request flexible working from the moment they start a job under new government legislation, in a move welcomed by unions, who urged ministers to go further in terms of making such arrangements the ...
Older women workers face the highest gender pay gap in the country with those aged more than 50 paid on average £7,000 less than their male counterparts. Research being published today reveals a 24 per cent difference between the median ...
The European Union should relax its state aid rules to compete with mass US subsidies for green technology, the head of the European Commission has said. Ursula von der Leyen, commission president, paved the way for Brussels to “improve” its ...
Two thirds of FTSE 350 companies have at least one board member from an ethnically diverse background, new data has found, with more representation among the biggest companies. Research from Thomson Reuters Practical Law found that 66 per cent of ...
WELLINGTON — The New Zealand government said on Monday it would launch an inquiry into the country’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic so future governments could learn from the experience. A Royal Commission, a public inquiry of the highest level ...
LONDON — Britain’s government is launching a consultation into how to amend pension rules for workers in the National Health Service (NHS) to help retain more staff, at a time when the sector faces strikes over pay this month that ...
DOHA — Senegal’s loss to England on Sunday saw Africa’s hopes of lifting the trophy in Qatar recede even further but the migrant workers watching the game at a specially-built fan zone were still hoping for the biggest prize of ...
BEIJING — A patchwork easing of the world’s toughest COVID-19 curbs sowed confusion across China on Monday, spurring hopes for more clarity as officials shift tone on the dangers posed by the coronavirus in the wake of last month’s unprecedented ...