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Post Pandemic Remuneration: Champagne Problems?
Date: April 12, 2022
By Hannah Ford, Employment Partner and Tom O’Dell, Trainee Solicitor at law firm Stevens & Bolton With the 2022 bonus season in full swing, the pressure on businesses to wow their rockstar performers with “the number” has never been greater. When it comes to performance driven pay, the finance and banking sector has of course...
British Shares Fall After Jobs Data, Rolls-Royce Top FTSE 100 Loser
Date: April 12, 2022
By Devik Jain (Reuters) -London’s FTSE 100 fell on Tuesday as data showed some signs of reduced demand for labour, with healthcare and consumer staples stocks weighing the most, while Rolls-Royce dropped to the bottom of the blue-chip index on brokerage action. The FTSE 100 dropped 0.9%, with Unilever, Diageo, HSBC Holdings and AstraZeneca down...
Tesco Gives Employees 5.8% Pay Rise Amid Cost of Living Crunch
Date: April 7, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco on Thursday said it would give a 5.8% pay increase to store and fulfilment centre workers in a pay settlement which will be reviewed again next year due to the uncertain economic environment and high cost of living. The new pay deal takes the pay of the hourly-paid...
Hit by Staff Shortages, Airlines and Airports Struggle With Travel Recovery
Date: April 5, 2022
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of holidaymakers have seen their Easter getaways disrupted or cancelled because airlines and airports do not have enough staff to meet the recovery in demand as pandemic restrictions are eased in Europe. High rates of COVID-19 in Britain have caused staff absences for airlines and airports that were...
Britain Bids to Stop P&o Benefiting From Mass Firing
Date: March 30, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out a plan on Wednesday to stop P&O Ferries benefiting from its decision to fire workers and replace them with cheaper agency staff, saying ports should refuse access to ferry services that do not pay the minimum wage. Transport minister Grant Shapps said Britain would introduce new laws, strengthen employment rights...
Eastern Europe Struggles to Cope as Ukraine Refugee Exodus Hits 3.5 Million
Date: March 22, 2022
By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Pawel Florkiewicz and Luiza Ilie WARSAW/BUCHAREST (Reuters) – More than 3.5 million people have fled abroad from the war in Ukraine, United Nations data showed on Tuesday, leaving Eastern Europe scrambling to provide them with care, schools and jobs even as daily numbers crossing borders ease. The millions who have left Ukraine...