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Payroll problems | Council workers ordered to repay £40k after wage overpayment errors
Council employees in Glasgow have been ordered to pay back £40,000 in wages after a payroll error saw...
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Jobs market | UK vacancies continue to slip in August, but salaries hold steady
UK job vacancies continued to fall in August following a downward dip in July. Still, vacancy levels...
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‘Dismissed without pay’ | Inside the HR scandal rocking British Basketball
A group of former British Basketball League (BBL) employees has sued the sport's new competition operator,...
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Labour Market Outlook | Unemployment rising, vacancies shrinking & pay growth slowing - ONS latest
UK labour market heads into cooling phase as vacancies drop and unemployment climbs...
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'Our top priority' | Tesco staff given app to boost safety during their journey to work
Tesco is giving all 300,000 of its UK employees access to a personal safety app that can track their...
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'Directly connected' | Finance boss with cancer was told his sickness hurt the business, tribunal hears
Finance chief with cancer told he hadn't acknowledged "the impact his sickness had"...
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Polygamous working | Hundreds of employees caught 'double jobbing' - experts warn the true number could be far higher
A new investigation has uncovered that almost 300 local authority employees have been caught working...
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‘Exploitation’ | Drivers to battle Royal Mail e-Courier for worker classification & access to 'basic' rights
Drivers claim they have been misclassified as self-employed independent contractors, denying them key...
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‘Noteworthy' | UK's gender pay gap underestimated for over two decades, research finds
A researcher has found that the ONS miscalculated the true scope of the UK's gender pay gap by a 'small...
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Wage rises | Employers show restraint as pay awards stagnate despite rise in GDP
Eight quarters of stagnant pay growth coincide with steady decline in UK job vacancies...
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C-Suite Compensation | FTSE 100 CEO pay rises for third consecutive year, hitting record high
Highest level since reporting rules were introduced more than a decade ago...
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Rugby controversy | Salford Red Devils COO quits amid claims she was told to 'sleep with' RFL figure
The Chief Operating Officer of a rugby league club has resigned amid serious allegations about the club's...
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£70m investment | Lidl raises hourly pay for fifth time in two years
Lidl has announced that it will increase its pay for hourly paid colleagues...
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'Shared stewardship' | The Entertainer toy shop to become an Employee Owned Trust
Toy shop to become employee-owned within a matter of weeks...
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ONS latest | Calls for action on youth & older worker employment as vacancies hit 10-year low
Labour market slowdown raises concerns for both young and older workers...
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Miners' strike | Coal museum staff to walk out as pay row escalates
The National Coal Mining Museum refutes claims it has reneged on a gender parity pay rise...
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'Urgent matter' | Review commissioned into NHS ethnicity pay gap
An independent review into ethnicity pay gaps in the NHS in England has been announced...
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'Left me shocked' | Partner loses tribunal claim over bonus cut during long Covid absence
An asset management firm came under scrutiny after a senior worker recovering from long Covid complained...
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Money worries | Majority of Gen Z considering second jobs to cope with living costs
More than half of Gen Z workers in the UK are considering taking on a second job to help cover basic...
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Wage stagnation | Four in five UK workers receive lower pay awards than in 2024
Majority of pay awards worth less than inflation, and most fall below last year's figures...
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