Workplace monitoring is not a scary Big Brother, but a way to protect your business October 24, 2018 Picture this: an incident occurs in your organisation and your trade secrets are exposed to competitors and the media. The ensuing scandal means senior executives resign, the share price drops, employee morale falls, and eventually jobs are put at risk. This is not the stuff of TV thrillers, but is happening with increasing regularity to organisations [...]
Young people turn away from trade unions as generational pay gap widens June 4, 2018 Young workers are increasingly reluctant to join trade unions, it emerged today as trade union centre TUC warned of a wider pay gap between age groups. The Trades Union Congress told the BBC today that union membership levels among under-30s had fallen to 15.7 per cent last year, compared to 20.1 per cent in 2001. [...]
Italy tussle overshadows euro’s birthday party June 17, 2019 Europe’s single currency, the euro, is 20 years old, but any celebrations are likely to be muted. Its value against the dollar has been in steady decline for five years and it is now trading well below the level at which it was launched in January 1999. This may be good news for the eurozone’s [...]
Millennials should receive £10,000 from the government to tackle generation gap says commission May 8, 2018 The government should introduce a £10,000 “citizen’s inheritance” for all 25-year-olds as part of a bid to boost millennials’ prospects, according to a commission bringing together top business groups and trade union bosses. The Intergenerational Commission will also propose a new £2.3bn National Health Service levy on pensioners’ earnings, a progressive property tax to replace [...]
Singapore Prime Minister says EU-Singapore trade deal could be extended to UK post-Brexit October 19, 2018 Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said today he would be prepared to extend the terms of Singapore’s recently agreed trade with the European Union to the UK. “We hope we will be able to continue arrangements with Britain whether or not it is inside the EU… And then we have time to work some [...]
Leaving the EU gives us an unprecedented chance to boost trade with the US October 22, 2018 In my role as Her Majesty’s trade commissioner for North America, my priority is to work with our teams across the US and Canada to help businesses of all sizes and from all parts of the UK to seize export opportunities in both countries, and to attract high quality investment to the UK. Today, I am [...]
Ranked: The UK regions with the longest and shortest daily commutes November 17, 2017 Commuters in the capital are now battling an 81 minute daily journey in and out of work, the equivalent of 38 working days a year, according to new analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The one hour 21 minute journey for Londoners is 23 minutes longer than the national average journey for commuters, which [...]
Autumn Budget 2017: Philip Hammond to accelerate Britain’s tech credentials with investment in AI and driverless car reforms November 19, 2017 The chancellor is expected to unveil a flurry of announcements to progress artificial intelligence, driverless and electric cars, and 5G across Britain in next week’s Autumn Budget, to help bolster the nation’s credentials as a leader in tech. Philip Hammond is poised to announce £75m for AI, £400m for electric car charge points, £160m for [...]
For Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google, 2018 was the year when trust in the tech giants evaporated December 20, 2018 The Faangs (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google-owner Alphabet) have been the darlings of the stock market for years. These tech giants have helped to change how we shop, communicate, work – even how we watch movies. But as they have grown in size, fears have also grown, especially about what they may do with so [...]
Donald Trump is tariffically ignorant of economics, but don’t expect another Great Depression June 7, 2018 Paul Samuelson, a Nobel Laureate in economics, was once challenged by a sceptical mathematician to name one proposition across all the social sciences which was both true and non-trivial. Samuelson shot back with David Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage: “that this idea is logically true need not be argued before a mathematician; that it is [...]