Recent news

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

United Kingdom: Review of the Corporate Governance Code

The Financial Reporting Council has announced that it will be undertaking a review of the Corporate Governance Code …

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United Kingdom: Gender pay differentials

According to the Chartered Management Institute only 1 …

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United Kingdom: Brexit vote creates surge in EU citizenship applications

There has been a surge of applications from UK citizens to become citizens of other EU states since the Brexit vote …

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United Kingdom: Funds set aside

The government has confirmed that it has set aside funds in case it will leave the European Union on March 29th 2019 without a deal …

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United Kingdom: Foreign service exemption

Under the Finance Bill 2017 employees made redundant will no longer be able to claim a foreign service exemption if they work temporarily abroad – but are a UK tax resident …

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United Kingdom: Train drivers’ union ASLEF

Members of the train drivers’ union ASLEF are voting on a pay offer from Southern Rail that would give them an increase of 28 …

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United Kingdom: Government proposes paid leave for bereaved parents

A private members Bill that may well obtain broad parliamentary support, proposes that parents be given two weeks paid leave (at a modest flat rate) following the death of their child – if the child is under 18 years old …

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United Kingdom: Universities accused of ‘social apartheid’

A former Education Minister has accused Britain’s two top Universities in Oxford and Cambridge of manifesting a huge bias towards white applicants from the south-east of England …

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United Kingdom: Consumer price inflation

Although the annual rate of consumer price inflation was widely predicted to hit 3 …

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United Kingdom: Britain is £490bn poorer than thought

At last the UK government has come clean and admitted that the real size of the UK economy is half a trillion £ less than previously claim …

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United Kingdom: Sainsbury’s is cutting 2000 UK jobs

The supermarket chain Sainsburys is cutting 2000 store and back office jobs – including local payroll services …

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United Kingdom: Export funds doubled to £5 billion to support UK-Malaysia trade

As part of post-Brexit preparations the UK’s export credit agency has increased its funding for Malaysian companies to buy British – from £2 …

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United Kingdom: Number of tribunal claims increases since fees abolished

According to the law firm Irwin Mitchell “single claims issued in Employment Tribunals have started to increase significantly since fees were abolished on 26 July 2017 and those relating to unlawful deduction from wages, are returning from the brink of extinction” …

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United Kingdom: Employers must investigate before suspension occurs

The high court has ruled that employers must investigate, formally ‘hear’ and document all incidents before suspension occurs …

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United Kingdom: The Burden of proof protocol

The Burden of proof protocol used by employment tribunals has been declared incorrect by the Employment Appeals Tribunal …

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