Employment Rights
Humanists UK and My Death, My Decision (MDMD) will be holding a rally on Parliament Square on 29 April at 15:30 to show their support for assisted dying legislation for the terminally ill and the incurably suffering. On Monday the House of Commons will be holding a Westminster Hall debate on assisted dying after an… Read more »
BASC has welcomed Defra’s announcement that the new General Licence (GL45), which governs the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges on and around certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs), is currently being reviewed. The current licence conditions are based on a medium level of risk of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild… Read more »
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The prime minister has pledged to create 200,000 apprenticeships by 2011 in the draft Queen’s Speech. In a preview of the government’s legislative programme to MPs, Gordon Brown said he would give every qualified young person the statutory right to an apprenticeship. In 1997 about 65,000 young people were learning a trade through an apprenticeship,… Read more »
Details of pay levels in Britain’s local authorities reveal 14 town hall employees are earning more than the prime minister. In all 818 local authority workers are earning more than £100,000 and 132 earn more than the £137,579 earned by a Cabinet minister, according to the Taxpayers Alliance’s Town Hall Rich List. Fourteen are earning… Read more »
