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The European Commission imposed $4.09 billion in fines in 2016 - its largest total ever - driving up overall global cartel fines figures by over a billion dollars for the year compared with 2015, according to Allen & Overy’s Global Cartel Enforcement Report, published today. Despite the lowest annual fine levels in a decade from […]
It’s no secret that UK charities are suffering. Over the last 10 years alone they’ve lost more than £3.8bn in government grants and there’s no sign these are the last cuts they’ll see. But just when many charities were hoping, with the change of government, that perhaps the worst is over, a piece of EU […]
Sir Brendan Barber, the chair of Britain’s top employment relations service, Acas, predicts what lies in store within the world of work for 2017 in a blog published today. Brendan Barber said: “History may remember 2016 as the year of surprise voting results that defied polling experts, which ended with a period of industrial unrest. […]
In the very final UN session of the year, a handful of countries seeking to avoid scrutiny of their own human rights records are attempting to cut off essential funding for the UN's independent experts. (New York) States including China, Russia, Israel and Belarus are expected to attempt to block the funding of key UN […]
The government’s Housing Minister, Gavin Barwell MP, has called the current leasehold system a “widespread problem that needs addressing” during a debate in the House of Commons to discuss the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Act (2002). Speaking at the end of a wide-ranging debate, during which MPs offered numerous examples of unfair and unjust practices […]
The Government must put the public interest at the heart of its Brexit strategy, the Bar Council has warned as it publishes The Brexit Papers, produced to help ministers and civil servants pin point the most pressing legal concerns arising from the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. The Brexit Papers have been written by members […]
Online tool allows public to find out the gender pay gap for their job Tool launched as reporting requirements for large employers is published for first time Construction & building trades supervisors have the highest gender pay gap in favour of men, at 45.4 per cent Gender pay gap is an on-going debate […]
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