The staffing agency industry’s trade body has hit out at Harrods after the luxury department store threatened to take advantage of new laws allowing it to break strikes using temporary workers. Harrods told its staff it is willing to use ...
The British government is planning to launch formal dispute proceedings against the European Union as soon as this week. The UK thinks Brussels is breaking their agreed post-Brexit trade agreement by excluding Britain from three international science projects, according to ...
Energy regulator Ofgem has been threatened with legal action if it fails to protect vulnerable customers from soaring energy bills. The Good Law Project has teamed up with anti-poverty groups urging it to ensure people can cope with bills, expected ...
SHANGHAI — China is taking emergency action to bring more water to the drought-hit basin of the Yangtze River, deploying relief funds, seeding clouds and developing new supply sources as a record-breaking heatwave damages crops and livestock. The Ministry of ...
LONDON — British consumer price inflation jumped to 10.1% in July, its highest since February 1982, up from an annual rate of 9.4% in June, intensifying the squeeze on households, official figures showed on Wednesday. The increase was above all ...
The pandemic forced organisations everywhere to rethink how their employees could remain productive at a time when so many were forced to work from home. Part of the challenge was about ensuring that employees enjoyed a high quality of secure ...
Power and gas prices for Britain this winter hit new record highs yesterday as Europe’s energy crisis deepened, threatening to push annual household bills to £5,500 next year. Wholesale energy prices rose across the Continent and in America amid continued ...
Entain, the gambling firm behind Ladbrokes and Coral, could lose its licence to operate in the UK after it was told to pay a record £17m settlement over its inaction as individual customers spent hundreds of thousands of pounds. The ...
WASHINGTON — The United States military on Tuesday said it carried out a test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile that had been delayed to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing during China’s show of force near Taiwan earlier this ...
GENEVA/LONDON — Poxy McPoxface, TRUMP-22, or Mpox: these are some of the ideas sent in by the public to the World Health Organization (WHO) as it seeks a new name for monkeypox. Often disease names are chosen behind closed doors ...