Rail union suspends strike action after new pay offer

The RMT has taken the decision to suspend all industrial action on Network Rail following receipt of a new offer from the employer. Strike action...

Sunak’s scrap heap – more than one hundred thousand jobs in the North West...

Labour has today accused the Chancellor Rishi Sunak of consigning whole sectors of the economy, which generate billions in tax revenue and employ millions...

Unemployment steady as average wage growth eases

The rate of UK unemployment remained unchanged at 4.2% in the three months to October, the Office for National Statistics have said Meanwhile Average regular...

City pay has risen more than three times faster than NHS key worker pay...

City pay including bonuses (pay in the financial services and insurance sector), has risen more than three times faster than nurses' pay since 2008,...

Nearly half a million people set for a pay boost as real Living wage...

Over 460,000 people working for 14,000 real Living Wage Employers throughout the country are set for a vital cost-of-living pay boost, as the Living...

69,200 jobs at risk in new Tory seats across the North West due to...

Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, has urged the 2019 intake of Conservative MPs to “do the right thing” and save hundreds of thousands of...

Government aims to boost number of Magistrates by 4,000 as recruitment campaign launched

A new marketing campaign by the Ministry of Justice seeks to boost numbers by 4,000, with recruits expected to help tackle the backlog of...

All travellers arriving in England and Scotland will need a negative Covid tests to...

All travellers to England and Scotland from overseas will need to test negative for coronavirus before they are allowed to enter the country, the...

Government to bring in ‘Jack’s Law’ giving two weeks leave for bereaved parents

Parents who suffer the devastating loss of a child will be entitled to two weeks’ statutory leave. The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay Regulations, which...

Only 1 in 4 people believe UK will ‘build back better’

Only a quarter of the UK public are confident that 'build back better' can be delivered after the pandemic, according to new findings published today The insights...