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‘Treating workers like robots’: Woolworths blamed for empty supermarket shelves as warehouse strikes continue
Sat, 30 Nov 2024, 00:48
Woolworths bears responsibility for the empty shelves seen in supermarkets across parts of Australia by attempting to treat workers like “robots”, the head of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has said, as a strike of warehouse workers extends into a second week. Up to 1, 500 employees began rolling …
Rachel Reeves is wrong to say there was no alternative to her tax-raising budget | Letters
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 17:58
Rachel Reeves seems to show an extraordinary lack of imagination with her tax on jobs, raising employers’ national insurance (NI) contributions (‘We had no alternative’: Reeves defends her budget to the CBI, 25 November). Several sources have proposed far more worker-friendly and small-business-friendly ways of plugging the Treasury’s alleged £22bn …
My brother Neil Goldman, who has died aged 74, was chief executive of the business Colpac, where he was at the forefront of innovations in the British paperboard food packaging industry for more than 50 years. Neil joined Colpac, which was originally a hat box-making firm owned by his father, …
Black Friday online sales in UK rise by 12% but shops still feel the pinch
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 15:56
Shoppers visited websites in droves to snap up Black Friday bargains, raising hopes among struggling retailers that the US-inspired promotional day would finally kickstart a festive spending spree. After a tough October and start to November for UK retailers, the number of transactions made by Nationwide Building Society members was …
‘It was looking positive’: Vauxhall workers in shock over plant closure
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 15:09
“I don’t have anything good to say about this place right now, ” someone shouts, as workers flood out of the front gates of the Vauxhall van plant on Luton’s Kimpton Road. It’s lunchtime on a crisp November day in the Bedfordshire town and the early shift has just finished …
In wake of Laos backpacker deaths, questions linger in Vang Vieng
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 14:00
The music is still playing and the alcohol is still flowing at the bars along one of the party streets in Vang Vieng. Inside a popular venue, a voice over the speaker announces a special offer on beers, as disco lights flicker on the floor. Small paper flags from nations …
‘People demand more’: office Christmas parties pivot from alcohol to activities
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 13:52
From telling your boss what you really think of them, to an ill-advised hook-up with a colleague, the traditional British office Christmas party usually supplies enough drama to provide ammunition for workplace gossip well into January. Now, though, the annual booze-fuelled debauch appears to be falling out of favour as …
Royal Mail fails to deliver about a quarter of first-class post on time
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 13:52
Royal Mailfailed to deliver about a quarter of first-class post on time in recent months, marking a worsening in its recent delivery performance, when it is already under investigation for missing delivery targets. The company that owns Royal Mail, International Distribution Services (IDS) said about 76% of first-class mail arrived …
Woman’s life ruined after finding son’s father was undercover police officer, inquiry told
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 13:27
A woman has been “absolutely ruined” after discovering by chance that the father of her son was an undercover police officer, more than two decades after their child was born, a public inquiry has heard. The woman, known as Jacqui, described how the undercover officer, Bob Lambert, fathered their son …
UK car parts firm TI Fluid Systems bought by Canadian rival in latest overseas takeover
Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 12:44
Car parts maker TI Fluid Systems has become the latest London-listed firm to succumb to an overseas takeover, in a deal that will lead to its base in Oxford being hollowed out. The £1bn takeover by Canada’s ABC Technologies includes cutting as many as 2, 700 staff globally, 10% with …
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