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Govt's 'red tape cuts' end in net cost of £140m to businesses
12 October 2016
Ironically, it was the addition of a regulation, not the cutting of red tape, that made the vast majority of savings for businesses this year, according to a parliamentary select committee report. And cutting regulation has actually cost, rather than saved, money.
Pay growth set to weaken and more workers to earn legal minimums, report warns
12 October 2016
Wage growth is set to falter following the vote to leave the EU, think tank the Resolution Foundation has warned.
Businesses can do more to tackle modern slavery, Commissioner reports
12 October 2016
Kevin Hyland, the UK's Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner, has said the private sector could do more to tackle forced labour in his first annual report.
Holiday pay must reflect commission, Court of Appeal rules
11 October 2016
The Court of Appeal has decreed in favour of UNISON's argument that workers who normally earn commission should not lose this income during periods of annual leave.
Human rights should not depend on businesses' consent, IER tells UN
11 October 2016
Academics writing on behalf the Institute of Employment Rights have advised the United Nations Human Rights Council that lawmakers should not wait for the consent of business to impose international human rights legislation.
UKIP/Tory members find May's govt 'too right wing'
10 October 2016
There "seems as if there's a darkness at the heart of Theresa May's government"; policies on migrant workers go "too far".
These are the words of a leading Tory Party Adviser and a UKIP MEP respectively.
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