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Asda offers staff a pay rise for ‘flexible’ contract
Asda is offering staff a higher wage in exchange for a new contract which will introduce unpaid breaks and a requirement to work over Bank Holidays.
Sunday 8 November 2026
Asda is offering staff a higher wage in exchange for a new contract which will introduce unpaid breaks and a requirement to work over Bank Holidays.
Research over the past four years show that overall business risk for British small and medium-sized businesses fell by 18 per cent since October 2012. Business…
New research has found that a staggering, 87.9 per cent of women said that they’ve been paid less because of their gender, with over a third…
The tax burden on British households and businesses is on course to climb to a 40 year high by the end of the next parliament as…
Increased provision will cover rise in both number of claims and size of compensation payouts, following Supreme Court judgement on PPI complaints handling.
Business confidence among the UK's private sector firms recovered to the strongest level since mid-2015, according to new figures.
Mobile phone giant Vodafone says it will create 2,100 jobs across the UK.
When Cabinet ministers gathered at No 10 on Wednesday morning for their 8am Budget briefing there was much cause for optimism.
Theresa May’s plans to rely on World Trade Organisation tariffs in the case of a hard Brexit will cause a “major economic shock” and is worse…
Hedderwick Ltd, the owner of recently opened Royston-based high quality pub restaurant Banyers House, is raising £1.87m million through crowdfunding platform, Downing Crowd.
UK-based creator of the world’s first portable wood-fired oven, Uuni, has raised more than £529,000 in five weeks as a result of a successful crowdfunding campaign,…
Entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den star, Peter Jones CBE, yesterday announced a team of budding entrepreneurs from West Yorkshire as the winners of his nationwide enterprise competition…
These days, it seems like no matter what task you want to tackle, from mindless time wasting to balancing your family budget, the common refrain seems…
Management at Blenheim Palace are celebrating this year’s National Apprenticeship Week by announcing plans to train more than 100 apprentices over the next decade.
New transaction data from PayPal reveals how small and medium-sized businesses benefitted most from the record lows of the pound last year.