CPI reported a year-on-year increase of 6.7 per cent, maintaining the same pace as the previous month, contrary to economists' predictions of a dip to 6.6 per cent.

The government have named over 200 companies that have breached the National Minimum Wage law. These employers include high-street brands, sole traders and small businesses.

In their fifties and deciding there was more to life than work, Liz and Ian Woodbridge quit stressful jobs during the pandemic - part of a cohort of British early retirees now resisting a government call to return, despite rising living costs.

Britain's government ran an unexpected budget surplus in January thanks to strong income tax receipts, giving finance minister Jeremy Hunt a little more leeway as he prepares to deliver a budget statement next month.

Britain's Conservative government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is temporarily subsidising electricity and gas bills this winter.

Britain's economy showed zero growth in the final three months of 2022 - enough for it to avoid entering a recession for now - but faces tough prospects in 2023 as households continue to wrestle with double-digit inflation.

BP on Tuesday also said its carbon emissions would not fall as quickly as anticipated.

Half a million workers went on strike in Britain on Wednesday, calling for higher wages in the largest such walkout in over a decade, closing schools and severely disrupting transport.

The High Pay Centre, which compiled the report using company data and official statistics, called for a more "even" distribution of income.

The independent US senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday gave his backing to striking British railway workers.

For ongoing strikes today to have any prospect of success, unions must carefully balance industrial action with negotiation to maintain public support.

It should surprise no one that the first big pandemic-era display of worker power was in air travel, according to Sharan Burrow, head of the International Trade Union Confederation.

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The election of Margaret Thatcher as Conservative prime minister in May 1979, signalled the start of a period of major restrictions on trade union power.

Britain's heavy-handed approach to industrial relations has backfired as employees reject its "nonsense" demands for pay restraint and increasingly join unions, the head of the country's biggest trade union umbrella group said.

One reason for lower membership levels among younger workers is that they are more likely to be in precarious employment with less access to unions.

If the current UK government is to abide by international commitments as an ILO member and party to the European Convention on Human Rights, agency workers can only replace strikers in essential services.

An investigation by Britain's Observer newspaper claimed that nine of 13 companies accused of firing and rehiring made profits or increased executive pay.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said some rules would be relaxed as part of a "carefully planned timetable" of measures.

Tony Anscombe, Security Evangelist at ESET, says blockchain is the vanguard of the Encryption of Things (EoT).

A study by the University of Glasgow found that unemployed people had a mortality rate three times bigger than health and business professionals or teachers.

Labour leader will also tell TUC conference that "gig economy" companies fail to protect workers and customers.

Labour moderates have described Andrew Murray's appoint as "total madness".

Brexit Secretary David Davis will set out how laws are transferred in the Great Repeal Bill.

Live coverage of events as Britain begins the formal process of exiting the European Union.

New mothers in Britain receive just six weeks of decently-paid entitlements, study reveals.

Latest negotiations between the parties come after the drivers rejected a deal from the company.

Industrial action announcement comes after peace talks at mediation service Acas broke down.

Interview: TUC general secretary spoke to IBTimes UK as divorce negotiations with the EU loom.

Negotiations will come after a breakthrough between Southern and Aslef at the TUC.