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Unite members say they hope to make City institution ‘effectively inoperable’ with four-day industrial action.

Sainsbury’s sales surged up in the first quarter of its year as it revamped its convenience food ranges and held down prices on staples such as strawberries and potatoes. 

London mayor Sadiq Khan is today launching an initiative to boost pay and working conditions in the capital.

Some of the self-employed should be entitled to the national minimum wage, a think tank has urged.

The pound fell back below $1.30 after figures showed output in the UK’s manufacturing sector fell well short of expectations in June.

Employees say they have been betrayed as convenience chain negotiates possible takeover by Sainsbury’s.

Disposable income, adjusted for inflation, has fallen for three quarters in a row, resulting in a sharp squeeze on saving.

Many UK employers have had to pay “well above market rate” to attract employees over the past year as a skills shortage intensifies, a survey suggests.

Virgin Media plans to make around 200 redundancies following a management shake-up at the cable operator.

The National Audit Office takes the Government, police forces and banks to task over their response to the growing threat.

European commission sets out proposals for pension that will let workers save seamlessly into one pot wherever they are.

The City’s financial services offering may not be quite such a strong bargaining chip in Brexit negotiations as some have assumed, according to a new study by EY.

People in the UK feel “frustrated and squeezed” because their pay has flatlined for a decade, the Bank of England’s chief economist has said.

Sony Music, one of the big three global record companies, says it will start pressing its own vinyl releases again for the first time since 1989.

The investment is the firm’s biggest in the UK for more than a decade and is welcomed as a vote of confidence in the economy.