Live-Chancellor doubles help for self employed and back dates support for business
Warning that there are difficult days and weeks ahead, The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a raft of measures to help businesses and individuals...
Sainsbury to cut 3,500 jobs and close its fish,meat and deli counters
The Supermarket chain Sainsbury has announced 3,500 job cuts and that it will be closing all its meat, fish and deli counters.
Presenting its results...
Cambridge Dictionary names ‘quarantine’ Word of the Year 2020
‘Quarantine’ has defeated 'lockdown' and 'pandemic' to be crowned Word of the Year 2020 after data showed it to be one of the most highly searched for on...
Amazon warehouse worker takes eight weeks to earn what Bezos makes in a second,...
The TUC has released analysis that shows an Amazon warehouse worker would take over eight weeks, or 293 hours, to earn what Amazon CEO...
Shopworkers’ concerns grow – Usdaw calls on all retailers to reinstate full lockdown safety...
Shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw has made an urgent call on supermarkets and food retailers to immediately revert to the stringent safety measures in stores...
Lidl to give its employees a one £200 thank you payment
Lidl GB has today announced that it will pay all front-line colleagues a one-off £200 thank you payment for their hard work and ongoing...
Almost £2 billion in total has been spent on “crony” contracts going to Conservative...
The Labour Party is calling on the Government to urgently clean up its Covid procurement as it emerges almost £2 billion in total has...
First COVID-19 lockdown cost UK hospitality and high street £45 bn
The UK’s first national lockdown from March 2020 and its immediate aftermath saw a massive shift in consumer habits that was initially mandated but...
Under 25’s the hardest hit as latest unemployment figures show furlough has put the...
The under 25s have been the hit the hardest as the latest figures on unemployment released this morning.
The figures suggest that the furlough scheme...
Industrial clusters in every region the only way to level up says CBI chief
Empowering regions to play to their different strengths must win out over cookie-cutter solutions if levelling up is to succeed
Business can serve as...