How scrapping national pay rates might save lives
Faisal Islam on how scrapping national pay bargaining might save lives, and why it will be rather difficult.
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Channel 4 News lifts the lid on a multimillion pound exam industry, revealing the extent exam boards profit from increased school fees, despite claiming tax-free charitable status.
Barclays is to pay £290m in fines for attempting to manipulate inter-bank lending rates for its own gain as its chief executive agrees to give up his bonus.
MPs meet with Post Office officials to raise subpostmasters’ concerns over a payment system that they say has caused inaccuracies for which staff are charged and held legally accountable.
Andrew Moss, the chief executive of Aviva, the UK’s largest insurer, is stepping down with immediate effect following a shareholder revolt over the insurance firm’s executive pay.
After a seven year fight, former Rover workers are getting just £3 each following the collapse of the UK’s last major carmaker.
Shareholders of the insurer Aviva vote overwhelmingly against its bonus packages for executives despite the company’s chief executive waiving his own bonus just days ago.
As Rangers faces potential liquidation, Alex Thomson reveals the extent of transactions and payments made from offshore accounts that have so interested the taxman.
Faisal Islam on how scrapping national pay bargaining might save lives, and why it will be rather difficult.
Five employees of The Sun, a police officer, a member of the armed forces and a Ministry of Defence employee are arrested over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials.
One holds the UK economy in his hands. The other’s role is even more important – at least if you ask some people. Channel 4 News checks the Top Trumps cards of Stephen Hester and Fabio Capello.
Politicians and unions have criticised as “out of touch” the £963,000 bonus package awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester.
As Goldman Sachs reveals that staff earned £8bn in pay and bonuses in 2011, anti-capitalist protesters lose their court battle to occupy land outside St Paul’s cathedral in London.
As wages are cut in real terms and the cost of living soars, Britons are turning to payday loans who hand out instant cash for often exorbitant rates of interest. The number of people taking out these so-called ‘payday’ loans quadrupled between 2008 and 2010, to 1.2 million. Are they the cheapest option?
The banking giant will pay almost £30m in compensation after its subsidiary mis-sold products intended to pay for long-term care to thousands of elderly investors.
Nick Clegg is pledging to balance austerity in the public sector with a crackdown on top corporate pay so state employees do not feel like they are doing “all the heavy lifting”.