Jobless rate declines to 4% in the three months to June, the lowest since the winter of 1975 Pay growth in Britain has slowed to its weakest in almost a year despite a fall in the jobless rate to a fresh 43-year low and the biggest annual drop in workers from the EU since modern records began more than two ...
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May urged to go further in plan to end rough sleeping by 2027
Government unveils £50m fund but admits no new money has been made available for it A £50m fund to provide homes for people ready to leave homeless hostels or domestic abuse refuges in England has been announced by ministers, as part of a wider strategy aimed at eliminating rough sleeping by 2027. The scheme is a response to the growing ...
Read More »Statement from Mayor Biggs: Boris Johnson comments
Responding to an article in the Daily Telegraph where he said Muslim women wearing burkas “look like letter boxes” and comparing them to “bank robbers” Mayor John Biggs said: ‘The language used in Boris Johnson’s article is incredibly offensive and insensitive, people should be free to decide what they wear. In his column he argues against a full ...
Read More »Socialisation in the knowledge society
By Taslim Ahammad: Socialisation in the knowledge management (next 19) Socialisation impacts human relationships in the society and businesses in several ways. In general, socialisation determines the way in which employees perceive teamwork, work habits and the exchange of information, which are all important factors for organisation and the social order. Socialisation is the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating ...
Read More »Companies in Brexit ‘supply shock’ as fewer EU citizens come to UK
Businesses are struggling to fill vacancies as a result of drop in new EU workers, says report Companies are suffering from a “supply shock” as fewer EU citizens come to the UK, and companies struggle to fill vacancies, according to a survey of 2,000 employers. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said the number of applicants per vacancy ...
Read More »Boris Johnson must face full inquiry, Muslim leaders tell May
Islamophobic incidents have increased after Johnson’s burqa remarks, says MCB Britain’s largest Islamic organisation is writing to Theresa May to demand Boris Johnson be subject to a full disciplinary inquiry, saying no one should be allowed to victimise minorities with impunity. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said Islamophobic incidents had spiked since Johnson’s controversial article was published a week ...
Read More »One of history’s greatest and cruellest vengeances
By Nooruddin Ahmed: “It seemed that the events of Karbala were being re-enacted on the soil of Bengal. Yet women and children were not murdered in Karbala. Even a cruel person like Yazid spared women and children”. Sheikh Hasina, 16 August 1980, York Hall, London Two weeks before the extermination of their entire family in Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, accompanied by ...
Read More »‘Morally empty’ Johnson is courting fascism, says peer as Tory crisis mounts
Ex-Cameron aide and Muslim leaders join condemnation over the former foreign secretary’s burqa comments A Tory peer and former aide to David Cameron accused Boris Johnson of “moral emptiness”, casual racism and “courting fascism” as division over the former foreign secretary’s comments about Muslim women threatened to develop into a full-blown crisis for Theresa May and her party. The comments ...
Read More »Leadership is an art
By Taslim Ahammad: The environment of our future leaders have to operate is quite different from what we were used to in the previous decade. Nowadays, organizational culture massively influenced by leadership and consequently, leadership affects organizational performance. Leader is somebody who influences a group of people towards the achievement of a goal. Hence, a leader can be defined ...
Read More »Call for Gove to give evidence over school abuse case claims
Lawyers want minister called to inquiry over allegation he intervened in investigation Lawyers representing child abuse survivors have called for the environment secretary, Michael Gove, to be called before a public inquiry over an allegation he intervened in a sexual abuse investigation at a boarding school. Two child abuse professionals have testified at the ongoing independent inquiry into child sexual ...
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