Fears workers in Leicester’s textile factories are still being exploited weigh down shares in Boohoo By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 16:50 EDT, 30 July 2021 | Updated: 16:50 EDT, 30 July 2021 Fears workers in Leicester’s textile factories are still being exploited weighed down shares in Boohoo yesterday. Last year an independent … Read more
Women are reaching the peak of their earning power in the forties for the first time as fewer are forced to take lower paid jobs or quit work completely after having children, official figures revealed today. And in another step forward for female workers – for those under the age of 40 the gender pay … Read more
The number of UK workers on payrolls increased by almost 200,000 between April and May this year as the jobs market continued to bounce back from the coronavirus crisis. There were 197,000 workers added to payrolls last month, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak seizing on the figures as proof that his ‘Plan for Jobs’ ‘is working’. … Read more
Brexit has caused a ‘massive hole’ in the numbers of people coming to the UK to pick fruit in the summer months putting growers ‘on the brink’, it is claimed. Numbers of seasonal workers applying to work at one Kent-based company are down 90 per cent in the last two years and there are fears … Read more
Number of workers returning to offices 15% higher in May than in April, new data shows By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 5 June 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 5 June 2021 The number of workers returning to offices was 15 per cent higher in May than in April, new data … Read more
After Spain’s decision to let British tourists return to the country last week, the Love Island villa in Majorca appears to have sprung into action.
Old farmers will be paid up to £100,000 to retire in bid to freshen industry with new workers who are keener on green methods Environment Secretary believes older farmers hesitant to use green methods Because of Brexit farmers can receive a higher payout than when in the EU Old rules saw average farmer receive about … Read more
A crime gang who dressed as key workers to avoid capture during the first UK lockdown, joking about a weekly clap for drug dealers, have been jailed. Andrew Doyle, 35, from Hammersmith, north London, used the name ‘Neighbourhoodhero’ on a secret encrypted messaging network while carrying out cocaine deals at the height of lockdown last … Read more
A crime gang who dressed as key workers to avoid capture during the first UK lockdown, joking about a weekly clap for drug dealers, have been jailed. Andrew Doyle, 35, from Hammersmith, north London, used the name ‘Neighbourhoodhero’ on a secret encrypted messaging network while carrying out cocaine deals at the height of lockdown last … Read more
Three in five workers in early years settings say fewer children are reaching the expected levels of learning and development since Covid began. Nearly half of staff who work with pre-school children believe the attainment gap between poorer under-fives and their more affluent peers has grown during the pandemic, a survey by the Early Years … Read more