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You may have read that Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick announced his resignation recently. This followed months of chaos and revelations of a bullying and toxic corporate culture at Uber. When I saw this news item, it made me think about corpora...

Shrinkflation is a term used to describe the business practice of changing the physical weight of a product, while keeping its price constant. The “shrink” part of the term refers to the change in package size, typically a reduction, wher...

BBC wildlife producer and director Fergus Beeley shocked a family on Saturday when he got out of his car and launched an angry tirade against them. Beeley was heard calling the family ‘wankers’ and ‘sluts’ and telling them to...

These were the numbers of people in Zero-hours contracts from October – December 2016.     The SNP has today welcomed new figures showing that Scotland is leading by example in delivering fair work, and has called on Labour to support...

Sir Vince Cable has replaced Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal Democrats after running unopposed for the top job in his party. Sir Vince, who won back his old parliamentary seat of Twickenham said that he would ‘serve as long as I need to&rsq...

Six million people in their early 40s will have to work a year longer, because of a change in the State Pension Age, the government has announced. The rise in the pension age to 68 will now happen in 2039, rather than in 2046 as was originally propos...

Boots urged to drop huge sexist surcharge on emergency contraception * Boots charges £28.25 for Levonelle emergency contraceptive and £26.75 for its own generic version * Tesco now charges £13.50 for Levonelle, Superdrug £13.4...

Proposed enhanced protections for Ireland’s defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have been removed from a bill put forward to parliament by Ireland’s minister for social protection. Regina Doherty told Ireland’s parliament, the D&aa...

Consumer price inflation slowed to 2.6% in June 2017, but the cost of everyday goods including food and household products all continued to rise, figures published today have revealed. The slight slowdown in inflation was driven largel...

Norwich For Jobs Aims to Halve City’s Number of Young Employment Benefits Claimants in Third Stage A project to get Norwich’s young people into work has stated its aim to reduce the number on employment-related benefits by half by the end...