by Agency Reporter | Aug 23, 2024 | Briefing
THE TUC has warned that companies are advertising vacancies that pay below the minimum wage, on online job boards. The TUC believes this could be the tip of the iceberg, with dozens of non-compliant jobs being posted on boards every week. The union body is calling on...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 23, 2024 | Briefing
GLOBAL JUSTICE NOW has commissioned Sam Fowles of Cornerstone Barristers to provide a legal opinion on whether the UK could be in breach of international law for wrongs committed by the Israeli state or Israeli personnel. The possible breaches come as a result of...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2024 | Briefing
US Christians for Ceasefire engaged in a prayerful nonviolent action in a military zone near the crossing into Gaza on 18 August. The 12 US and three Palestinian Christian leaders appealing for a just peace were confronted by Israeli guards at the Kerem Shalom...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 22, 2024 | Briefing
NEW RESEARCH from Citizens Advice reveals that one in four people (25 per cent, the equivalent of 16.5 million people) are so worried about increases in energy costs that they say they will be forced to turn off their heating and hot water this winter. This increases...
by Agency Reporter | Aug 21, 2024 | Briefing
THE Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, as the September deadline for the closure of the Household Support Fund approaches. The Household Support Fund (HSF) provides payments to help people in poverty...
