Recent news

Latest items of recent news relevant to United Kingdom as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.

United Kingdom: National debt

The elephant in the room, as we approach a final Brexit day, is national debt …

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United Kingdom: Vodafone staff to get four months fully-paid parental leave

An increasing number of UK companies are introducing their own parental leave policies …

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United Kingdom: Look for real changes in the manufacturing sector can be hard

Look for real changes in the manufacturing sector on the website of the official Office for National Statistics (ONS) and they will be hard to find …

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United Kingdom: New guidance on use of confidentiality agreements in discrimination cases

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published new guidelines on using confidentiality agreements in discrimination, harassment and victimisation cases that may contravene the Equality Act as well as non-enforceable agreements …

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United Kingdom: Brexit backdoor bonanza

The grim truth about Brexit deal III worked out between the current UK government and the EU this Autumn is that in attempting to remove the Irish backstop there will be established a huge facility for smuggling goods into and through the European Union tariff free …

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United Kingdom: Deeply flawed statistic

In spite of widescale closures of manufacturing plants, the collapse of leading high street retail chains and the large-scale financial exodus from institutions in the city of London, UK employment has appeared to have kept stable and unemployment fallen since the Brexit vote …

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United Kingdom: Simpler annual benefit statements for workplace pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a consultation document on simpler annual benefit statements for workplace pensions …

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United Kingdom: The Durham-born advisor behind Brexit

The reason why British voters decided to embrace Brexit, even though it was against their own economic interests, has confounded analysts ever since the referendum in 2016 …

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United Kingdom: Brexit extension

The EU Council has formally accepted the “flextension” of the UK Brexit deadline …

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United Kingdom: Ongoing compliance obligations

Since the simplification of procedures under the GDPR, most companies have regarded ICO registration as at an end …

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United Kingdom: Free-trade practices

To overcome some of the UK’s trading difficulties following Brexit, the government may wish to adopt the free-trade practices that have grown up across Latin America under the umbrella of “maquiladora” …

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United Kingdom: John Lewis and Waitrose merge

The Roman Courtier at the time of Nero, Caius Petronius, once observed about re-organisation that it was a wonderful method “for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation“ …

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United Kingdom: New immigration rules

A date has yet to be announced for commencement of the government’s proposed change to immigration rules …

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United Kingdom: International trade after Brexit

Now that the UK Supreme Court has ruled on the legality of proroguing parliament MPs can get on with the task of trying to avoid a “No-Deal Brexit” …

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United Kingdom: Suspending Parliament was unlawful, judges rule

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that proroguing parliament after the Summer break was unlawful and therefore null and void …

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