Tag: Business

Rachel Reeves's National Insurance tax raid will destroy 100,000 jobs as companies are forced to lay off staff and freeze hiring, analysis by Deutsche Bank has found.

Asda's Chairman has hit out at Rachel Reeves's "very, very damaging" Budget, warning the tax rises will force the supermarket to look closely at how many workers it can afford to employ.

Labour's planned changes to employment law – ramping up trade union power and workers' rights – are already stifling the economy in anticipation, and they haven't even come in yet, says Steve Chilcott.

In a dark day for British business, an 'equal pay' claim brought by 3,500 shop assistants at Next has succeeded after an employment tribunal decided their work was "of equal value" to that of (male) warehouse workers.

With DEI seemingly on the way out, Joanna Gray offers a fix for the HR void left by fading diversity initiatives – one that fosters true company unity without stressing divisions based on immutable characteristics.

Newly published research dismantles McKinsey's touted link between diverse executive teams and financial success, revealing flaws in methodology and casting doubt on the efficacy of diversity initiatives.