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UK interest rates remain frozen at their record low of 0.5% (external website), following the latest announcement from the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at midday today. Some economic commentators now believe that the MPC will be...
"The UK jobs market looks healthier today than at any time in the last two years," according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's latest monthly Report on Jobs, out today. The key stats can be found on XpertHR.
"Based on the latest...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a strong belief that mankind should take steps to avoid global warming is a "philosophical belief" for the purposes of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003. In doing so, it gave...
As we recently noted, many economic commentators continue to warn of a "double-dip recession". One such scenario is a "W-shaped" recession, in which economic growth declines then returns to recovery, only to dip back into recession again before at last...
The UK recession may be drawing to a close (or it could be over already and we are just waiting for the official economic growth figures to catch up, depending on how optimistic your outlook is), but an increasing number of commentators are now arguing...
