• Friday newspaper round-up: Workers' rights, Wimbledon, Glencore execs

  Friday 20 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Trade union leaders will meet senior ministers on Saturday for crunch talks on the government's workers' rights package, as the government looks to head off a potentially damaging row at Labour conference. General secretaries from the 11 unions affiliated to Labour will meet Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, and Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, on the eve of conference to thrash out details of the package, sources have told the Guardian. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Boeing, zero-hours contracts, voluntary insolvencies

  Thursday 19 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Boeing's CEO said on Wednesday that the company would begin furloughing "a large number" of employees to conserve cash during the strike by union machinists that began last week. The chief executive, Kelly Ortberg, said the layoffs would be temporary and affect executives, managers and other employees. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Stellantis, ITV, Philip Morris

  Wednesday 18 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Employers who force staff to return to the office five days a week have been called the "dinosaurs of our age" by one of the world's leading experts who coined the term "presenteeism". Sir Cary Cooper, a professor of organisational psychology and health at the University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School, said employers imposing strict requirements on staff to be in the office risked driving away talented workers, damaging the wellbeing of employees and undermining their financial performance. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Airbus, Boden, Amazon

  Tuesday 17 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Alison Rose, the former chief executive of NatWest, has taken a job as an adviser to one of the UK's top law firms as she tries to return to the City after a career-damaging row with Nigel Farage last year. Rose is joining Mishcon de Reya as a diversity and inclusion adviser, a role that will involve mentoring some of the firm's partners. She will also work closely with the equity, diversity and inclusion committee at the firm, which is known for having represented Diana, Princess of Wales during her divorce. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Airbus, Boden, Amazon

  Tuesday 17 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Alison Rose, the former chief executive of NatWest, has taken a job as an adviser to one of the UK's top law firms as she tries to return to the City after a career-damaging row with Nigel Farage last year. Rose is joining Mishcon de Reya as a diversity and inclusion adviser, a role that will involve mentoring some of the firm's partners. She will also work closely with the equity, diversity and inclusion committee at the firm, which is known for having represented Diana, Princess of Wales during her divorce. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Airport expansion, workplace pensions, ITV

  Monday 16 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - The younger, tormented minister mulling his position before the Labour government granted Heathrow's third runway in 2009 might have been greatly relieved to know that, 15 years later, not a shovel would have touched the ground. But now, returning to power with a revamped energy and climate brief, Ed Miliband again finds himself in a cabinet which, many in aviation hope, may usher in bigger airports and more flights - as well as enough CO2 emissions to outweigh any new solar farms. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: High speed rail line, Boeing, Grangemouth

  Friday 13 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - A plan for a new high-speed rail line linking Birmingham and Manchester has been unveiled, claiming to deliver most of the benefits of the scrapped northern leg of HS2 at significantly cheaper cost and with only slightly longer journey times. The 50-mile track would run from where the HS2 line is now due to end in Staffordshire to join a planned Northern Powerhouse Rail line west of Manchester airport, under a plan unveiled by the mayors of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Telegraph, flexible working, Ford

  Thursday 12 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - The owner of the New York Sun has emerged as the latest bidder aiming to take control of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. British-born Dovid Efune, who took control of the assets of the former newspaper the New York Sun three years ago, is understood to be in the running to lodge an offer before the deadline set for second-round bidders on 27 September. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Port Talbot, Amazon, Tripadvisor

  Wednesday 11 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - The British steel industry is braced for 2,500 job cuts at the Port Talbot steelworks, with thousands more jobs at risk in the UK, as the government prepares a taxpayer-backed deal for the south Wales plant. The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, is expected to outline on Wednesday details of a rescue deal which will see the government hand the historic Welsh plant's owners, Tata Steel, £500m to build a new electric furnace - but at the cost of huge redundancies from the closure of its last remaining blast furnace. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Water bills, iPhones, council tax, Audi factory

  Tuesday 10 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves is being urged by a left-of-centre thinktank to announce changes to capital gains tax, inheritance tax and national insurance in next month's budget that would raise more than £20bn a year for the Treasury. With the chancellor looking for ways to plug a £22bn hole that she has identified in the public finances, the Resolution Foundation said it was a time-honoured tradition that taxes were raised in the first budget after an election. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: PwC, UK pension funds, wind farms

  Friday 06 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - The consultancy PwC has told its employees it is going to begin tracking their working locations to ensure that all workers spend "a minimum of three days a week" in the office or at client sites. In a memo sent to its 26,000 UK employees, the big four accounting firm announced that it will start monitoring how often employees work from home in the same way it monitors how many chargeable hours they work. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: X, Marks & Spencer, Volvo

  Thursday 05 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - More than a quarter of advertisers are planning to cut spending on Elon Musk's X over concerns about the social media platform's content and trust in the information disseminated, according to new global research. Advertising revenue flowing to X has been in freefall since Musk bought the site, then known as Twitter, for $44bn (£38bn) in October 2022, claiming it had not lived up to its potential as a platform for "free speech". - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Councils, Apple, offshore wind farms

  Wednesday 04 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Spending on the UK live music sector and associated businesses has hit a record £6.1bn as a wave of huge acts from Elton John to Beyoncé cashed in on the pent-up demand to attend shows in person. Live, the federation representing Britain's live music industry, revealed that the sector's contribution to the UK economy topped £6bn for the first time last year, as fans denied live experiences in the Covid pandemic rushed to snap up tickets. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Electric cars, Manchester, Mountain Warehouse

  Tuesday 03 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Campaigners have called on the chancellor to introduce a controversial pay-per-mile road charging scheme on electric cars, warning of a £5bn "black hole" in tax revenues from motoring. In a letter to Rachel Reeves, the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) urged her to reform vehicle taxes, with fuel duty poised to dwindle in the coming decade as petrol and diesel cars are phased out. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Ride-hailing apps, ticket prices, Abercrombie & Kent

  Monday 02 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Uber and other ride-hailing apps should be forced to publish data on drivers' workloads so that regulators can tackle exploitation and cut carbon emissions, campaigners argue. Analysis by the pressure group Worker Info Exchange suggests drivers for Uber and its smaller rivals may have missed out on more than £1.2bn in wages and costs last year because of the way they are compensated. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Abercrombie & Kent, Bunzl, John Lewis

  Sunday 01 Sep 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Abercrombie & Kent, based in Cheltenham, has started talks with bankers regarding an initial public offering in 18 to 24 months' time. The luxury travel agency's boss, Cristina Levis, thinks the flotation will help the outfit become the LVMH of luxury experiential travel. The company, however, is looking at pursuing a possible listing in New York instead of London. Luxury travel has continued to increase since the pandemic with dramatic growth in demand for destinations such as the Nordics or Japan. In 2022, the company racked up sales of $528m (£402m). - The Sunday Telegraph

• Friday newspaper round-up: Train strikes, Lloyds, Reaction Engines

  Friday 30 Aug 2024

  (Sharecast News) - A series of weekend strikes by train drivers on LNER from Saturday has been called off, their trade union Aslef has announced. Passengers travelling between London and Edinburgh had faced the prospect of months of disruption after LNER drivers earlier this month announced 22 days of industrial action from the start of September until early November. On Thursday, Aslef said drivers had reached a resolution with LNER regarding the breaking of agreements. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Energy bills, Qantas, CrowdStrike

  Thursday 29 Aug 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Ministers have committed to help households struggling with their gas and electricity bills this winter after energy industry bosses warned that consumer debt had climbed to more than £3bn. With Labour under fire for scrapping universal winter fuel payments to pensioners, ministers met energy industry bosses on Wednesday to discuss ways of supporting struggling households through the coming colder months. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Water companies, Hargreaves Lansdown, Klarna

  Wednesday 28 Aug 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Water companies will struggle to raise the billions of pounds needed to clear Britain's waterways and fix its creaking infrastructure under the regulator's plan to keep a lid on rising water bills, the industry will warn. The water sector's trade association is expected to warn the industry regulator that its proposals to cap the steady rise in household bills by curbing water company spending may drive away the investors needed for a multibillion-pound overhaul of water infrastructure. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Barclays, Mike Lynch, IBM

  Tuesday 27 Aug 2024

  (Sharecast News) - Ministers have been urged to intervene to prevent businesses struggling with gas and electricity costs from going bust, as bills are forecast to be 70% higher next year than before the energy crisis. A typical small business such as a pub, restaurant or independent retailer is paying more than £5,000 extra a year on bills than before the energy crisis that began in 2021, research by the forecaster Cornwall Insight shared with the Guardian shows. - Guardian

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