Food inflation: First signs of energy cost surge feed through to supermarket shelves as discounts fail to stem price growth
Sunak calls for minimum wage quango to be abolished Politics Former Chancellor and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that his decisions to hike the national minimum wage backfired as he called for a quango overseeing low pay to be abolished. Sunak appeared to admit that his decision to increase the national living wage has contributed to job struggles faced by young people. In an [...]
Hiking minimum wage as graduate pay stagnates is incentivising mediocrity Opinion Hiking the minimum wage as graduate salaries flatline is creating a system where ambition is no longer rewarded, writes Steve Rigby.
We are governed by people who don’t know what they’re doing Opinion Almost 100,000 jobs in the hospitality sector have disappeared since the government unveiled its hike to employers’ National Insurance Contributions, and lowered the threshold at which it is paid. Employers have also had to contend with a rise in the minimum wage amid a storm of other headwinds including inflation, energy costs and generally weak [...]