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Asda announced its “Just Essentials" range on Monday as part of its promise to expand its line of budget-friendly products to support customers through the cost of living crisis. However, Waitrose has said that Asda’s branding is too similar to its own “Essential Waitrose” range which the retailer launched back in 2009. Following the news, […]
Freshfields has published its gender pay gap since 2017 and has voluntarily shared its ethnicity pay gap since 2018. The firm’s mean gender pay gap for 2021, published this month, comes in at 52.1%, representing a decrease from last year’s result of 54.5%. In 2019, the gap stood at 57.2%. As such, this year’s results […]
Since negotiations began at the end of January, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) has been seeking significantly higher and equal pay, as well as sufficient staffing and working hours. Amid a spiralling cost of living crisis, employees are demanding big corporations that have been posting record profits pay out higher wages. […]
On Thursday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claiming Endo International Plc and Impax Laboratories violated antitrust laws by forming a deal that stifled market competition for an opioid drug, Opana ER. It was not immediately clear what the reasons for US District Judge Royce Lamberth’s decision were […]
Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite was urged to quit his position at the British ferries operator after acknowledging there is “absolutely no doubt” that the company should have consulted with trade unions. P&O Ferries replaced its workforce with cheaper foreign agency workers last week and has since faced a wave of backlash. Explaining P&O’s decision not […]
Pharmaceutical company Sandoz Inc has persuaded a federal judge in Delaware to dismiss a lawsuit claiming its proposed generic version of a blockbuster lung-disease drug would go against the patent rights of the drug's original manufacturers, Roche Genentech Inc. On Tuesday, US District Judge Richard Andrew found parts of Genentech's patents to be invalid and […]
An LA federal judge has said she is prepared to approve an $18 million settlement between Activision Blizzard Inc and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a lawsuit claiming widespread sex discrimination by the American video game company. On Tuesday, US District Judge Dale Fischer said that the deal was sufficient, but asked […]
P&O employee, James, told the BBC he felt abandoned by the company: "It was a complete surprise. I would have understood if it was at the height of Covid, but now we're seeing the end of travel restrictions and the start of summer bookings. So this has come completely out of the blue," he said. […]
In a letter distributed by the New York Office of Court Administration on Monday, staff were told they had been deemed “unfit for service” for failing to comply with the court system’s covid-19 vaccine mandate. 156 court employees were told that unless they submit proof of receiving at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine […]
Latham & Watkins has taken on two mental health professionals to offer counselling to UK employees amid growing concerns over burnout in the legal sector, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, the firm offered counselling sessions to employees in its other offices but has now extended this initiative to cover more locations, such as London, […]
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