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A recent labour conference was held between the five BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa …

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With the growing prospect of inflation and holdings of alternative forms of value by corporations many employers will be tempted to follow Twitter, and Domino Pizza in the Netherlands, by offering employees the opportunity to be paid in cryptocurrency …

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During April 2021, there were hundreds of data breaches Worldwide with those reported in the public domain accounting to over one billion individually breached records …

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The mean earnings gap between those aged 15-24 who are in the labour market and those aged 25-54 has moved in various directions across the globe during the last twenty years …

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The report on Gartner’s latest Smart Manufacturing Strategy and Implementation Trends Survey has just been published …

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The latest report on the amount of household income expropriated through taxation has just been published by the OECD …

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The most established measure indicating the power of national passports to give access to other countries without a prior visa is the Henley Index …

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A number of international banking groups have been feeling the pressure of increased demand for their services and much of this has been most strongly felt by junior staff …

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The global vaccination programme is progressing now at a faster pace, but still only 15% of the World’s population have so far received at least a single shot …

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As companies emerge from the lockdown they will be asking an increasing number of employees to resume working from the office (WTO) …

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Although companies may not generally force employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 they can induce compliance through financial incentives …

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The recent furore over a UK civil servant holding a second job with the now bankrupt Greensill Capital whilst still in government employment has raised an important issue for all employers …

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A number of international law firms have announced their longer-term policies concerning remote working for professional staff …

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The appearance of COVID-19 mutations in California (B …

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Global investment bank “Citigroup” has banned employees from internal video calls on Fridays – which is now called a “zoom free day” …

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