Flexible working more important than salary for three in four professionals October 13, 2021 Flexible working has overtaken salary as the top benefit to employees, highlighting that flexibility and autonomy over the working day is now more important than financial reward for most workers. Three quarters of respondents of a new survey believe that in the future having an office space will be considered an employee benefit as opposed [...]
Uber strike over ‘racist’ facial recognition algorithm as case heads to tribunal October 6, 2021 A union is taking legal action against Uber for what it claims is indirect racial discrimination. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWUGB) is taking Uber to court on behalf of one of its members who says their account was terminated because of a facial recognition algorithm used to identify drivers incorrectly mis-identified drivers [...]