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The government has taken FedEE advice and is actively exploring the making of Northern Ireland into a semi-autonomous special economic zone …

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New guidance is now available for company sponsors from the Home Office concerning Tiers 2,4 and 5 migrants entering the UK …

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Just a short time is now left for employers to comment on the Good Work Plan’s consultation paper relating to “one-sided flexibility” …

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Having been deeply involved in the Brexit debate from the very outset FedEE has recently disengaged from the debate. This is because all the central players in the UK fail to realise that the UK’s departure from EU Membership on October 31st, with or without a deal, is no longer in their hands. It is the European Union – principally the European Commission and Council of Ministers – who have the power to allow the UK to remain in the EU, or leave it. The current UK debate is entirely stale and it is irrelevant what any UK court decides – especially as there is no written UK constitution. Voting not to leave the EU without a deal will have no affect on the departure unless the EU gives the UK more time – and there is no indication that this will be given whilst the UK has its current Prime Minister.

Following a public consultation exercise earlier this year, the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has decided to introduce new legal redundancy protections for pregnant women and new mothers …

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In spite of recent reports that UK consumers were on a buying spree the real picture of retail sales has now come from a Confederation of British Industry (CBI) index …

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HR is not only becoming increasingly an avenue for women to move into management, but one that increasingly demands high levels of formal qualifications …

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The UK parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group has just issued conclusions from the first of its three planned reviews of UK Whistleblower protection …

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Departments for Work and Pensions and Health and Social Care have launched a public consultation into support for low-paid workers who experience ill-health …

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The new Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has made it clear that EU freedom of movement rules will cease to have effect at the moment that a No-Deal Brexit takes effect on October 31st 2019 …

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The tax revenues coming from usually very affluent non-domiciled tax residents living in the country has dropped by 13% to £7 …

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Although the UK government is claiming that pay is now growing at the fastest rate for a decade, the claim is misleading as it does not take into account the level of price inflation that reduces the value of pay received …

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The UK government is now working on the assumption that the UK shall leave the European Union without a deal on October 31st 2019 …

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A total of 147 people across Great Britain had fatal injuries at work during the period from April 2018 to March 2019 …

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Although there are over 68,000 childcare approved providers in the government’s childcare subsidy scheme only 125,000 families have taken advantage of the initiative since it was introduced in April of 2017 …

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