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Kids and chores: how to win the battle and create money-smart kids
When your child leaves the nest, you might look back with the hope that your child-rearing skills provided enough lessons on street smarts to get t...
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UK businesses win right to COVID business interruption insurance payouts: Are you eligible to claim?
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that hundreds of thousands of UK businesses that attempted to claim for coronavirus-related business interrup...
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No jab, no job? Mandatory COVID vaccination could take off in 2021 to keep staff and businesses alive
Pimlico Plumbers Chairman Charlie Mullins thinks it is a "no brainer" that all his staff should be vaccinated against the coronavirus. He is willin...
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Fake news contractors for hire: 'manipulated' social media campaigns operating in 81 countries
Freelancers and third party contractors are being targeted for disinformation-for-hire services to run social media smear campaigns across 81 count...
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Morrisons sets minimum wage at £10 an hour from April, enforces face mask rule for customers
Morrisons has become the first supermarket chain in the UK to reach a minimum pay milestone of £10 an hour for all colleagues who have passed their...
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Slack IR35 communication could spur contractor walkouts and skills shortage
More than half of the 1400 contractors surveyed by IR35 compliance specialist, Qdos, said that they had not been contacted by their end client rega...
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Care homes turning hospital patients away due to COVID insurance premium hikes: should taxpayers or site owners pay the price?
Care homes in the UK are getting hit with extortionate insurance premium rate hikes, some as high as 60% or more, albeit with COVID liability less ...
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Level 5 restrictions coming into effect this week: "These restrictions will not last forever," says Whitty
COVID UPDATE: Level 5 restrictions and extra measures taken by the public and corporate Britain have already started to become part of daily life t...
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Testing times for travellers: how to avoid pre-travel COVID test fines and get airline tickets refunded
The UK has surpassed other nations in administering COVID vaccines, but with the COVID variant still a mystery to contend with, international trave...
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Google and Alphabet workers form union - what will it mean for its 60,000 temps, vendors and contractors?
Google and other Alphabet company workers have created a union. What makes it different is that it will be open to all employees and contractors at...
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No more margaritas: Restaurateur Brothers banned for failing to pay £173,000 in taxes
Brothers Carlos Enrique De La Cruz Vidal (51), from South East London, and Fernando De La Cruz Vidal (52), from Granada in Spain, are now banned fr...
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The missing billions: ONS records miss £800bn in assets owned by 'super-rich'
The ONS’ main data on wealth misses almost £800 billion of assets held by the wealthiest 1 per cent of UK households and correcting for this oversi...