Law that creates work-from-home right for UK employees to be confirmed on Thursday – CityAM : CityAM September 21, 2021 Employees will reportedly be able to put in a request to work from home from their first day in a job under new plans due to be announced later this week. Laws which will protect flexible working first put forward before the pandemic will be confirmed on Thursday, according to a report in The Times. [...]
Small businesses will bear the burden of climate costs and reap few rewards September 30, 2021 Climate is Covid on steroids, so says Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England. While the world has grappled with, and seemingly started to defeat, this coronavirus pandemic, the next challenge is going to be even harder. The upcoming Cop26 conference in Glasgow is a bellwether moment for the fight against global [...]
Small businesses will bear the burden of climate costs and reap few rewards – CityAM : CityAM September 30, 2021 Climate is Covid on steroids, so says Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England. While the world has grappled with, and seemingly started to defeat, this coronavirus pandemic, the next challenge is going to be even harder. The upcoming Cop26 conference in Glasgow is a bellwether moment for the fight against global [...]
Uber calls on rivals to offer employment benefits as Bolt faces trade union lawsuit June 15, 2022 Uber has called on its rivals to give drivers employment benefits, after one of the UK’s biggest unions said it is taking legal action against ride-hailing app Bolt over its lack of workers’ protections. Britain’s third largest trade union, GMB, is set to file legal proceedings against Bolt, in a bid to force the Estonian [...]
Meet the group shaking up the City old boys’ club November 9, 2023 The 93 per cent Club is looking to break down the class barriers still running through the City. Founder Sophie Pender tell City A.M. there’s still plenty of work to be done.
Exclusive: ‘Under Boris, the tail has been wagging the dog way too much’, says Charlie Mullins June 30, 2021 Discussing new health secretary Sajid Javid with London’s best-known plumber, entrepreneur Charlie Mullins, it becomes instantly clear that the founder of Pimlico Plumbers is a big fan. “In 2020, Sajid Javid chose to quit as Chancellor and walk out of Number 11 rather than bow down to Dominic Cummings and the Prime Minister and sack [...]
Tory manifesto pledge to build 300,000 new homes a year ‘almost impossible’, say analysts October 10, 2021 Boris Johnson’s pledge at the last election to build 300,000 new home a year by the middle of this decade is now “almost impossible” due to labour and material shortages, according to industry groups. The Conservative party’s election winning 2019 manifesto included a promise to build “300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s” and that [...]
Netflix, Google and Facebook to require jabs for return to office July 29, 2021 Netflix, Google and Facebook will require all US employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before they can return to work. In an email to staff Google boss Sundar Pichai said the tech giant was pushing back its return to the office from September to mid-October. He added that vaccinations will be compulsory for US staff, [...]
Climate change tech: What heat pumps could do for your home, and your wallet October 29, 2021 As the energy crisis rages on amid rising gas prices, UK householders are facing a change in the way we heat our homes to tackle climate change. Here are some answers to the key questions about one of the main technologies we could use instead of gas boilers. First, what is a heat pump? In [...]
Hotel giant Marriott will pay staff a bonus to get Covid-19 vaccine March 4, 2021 Hotel giant Marriott will pay staff a bonus to get Covid-19 vaccine