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A UK construction company has plunged into liquidation after 15 years as staff missed out on over £150,000 worth of pay.

Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for the Israeli government, highlighting growing concerns about the social and ethical impacts of AI.

FIFA’s official World Cup footballs costing up to £130 are being made by workers earning as little as £26 a week.

At dawn, the banana plantation begins to stir even before the sun pierces through the damp mist of Guatemala’s southern coast.

Councils will be prohibited from permitting staff to work four-day weeks on full pay if the Tories win the next election.

According to a source cited by medias, the import of labor from North Korea to Russia is allegedly overseen personally and exclusively by SVR chief Sergey Naryshkin.

After the merger of Wildberries with Russ Outdoor, everything at the marketplace is literally “falling apart,” and problems are arising one after another.

A Wildberries warehouse employee in Elektrostal told media about the conditions under which women from North Korea are working after being brought to the facility en masse:

Three staff members at Leeds City Council’s planning department who were arrested as part of an investigation into suspected corruption have been released without charge, police have said.

Nigel Farage will pledge a significant reduction in business regulation as he details his party’s economic policies more thoroughly than ever before, aiming to enhance its reputation for fiscal responsibility.

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to reduce expenses and address overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Numerous Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK might close, and hundreds of jobs are at risk after the dine-in aspect of its business fell into administration.

Plumbers, electricians, and welders will be in high demand as part of a national plan to train individuals for an additional 400,000 green jobs over the next five years, Ed Miliband has said.

A west London shop has lost its license after it was found to employ an illegal worker who was being paid in food.

On Monday, the Chancellor insisted she will uphold her pledge not to raise taxes on “working people” in her upcoming Budget, but left the possibility open for changing VAT rules to enhance Treasury funds.

Starbucks workers in three states took legal action against the coffee giant on Wednesday, alleging that it violated the law when it changed its dress code but refused to reimburse employees who had to buy new clothes.

A third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity, with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing.

The firm has paused production at its factories in Halewood on Merseyside and Solihull in the West Midlands, and its engine site in Wolverhampton.

In a large-scale immigration enforcement raid at a huge Hyundai facility in Georgia on Thursday, 475 immigrants suspected of living and working in the U.S. illegally were detained, federal authorities announced.

Donald Trump promised his presidency would usher in a “golden age” for American workers, but his administration has gutted union protections for tens of thousands of federal workers in what labor activists and historians have called the largest acts of union busting in American history.

Bus drivers throughout Britain might go on strike as unions and operators continue to disagree over pay and conditions.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is arranging a ’stealth tax raid’ on workers in the upcoming budget as she aims to address a £50 billion shortfall in public finances, according to a report.

More than 100,000 workers in the UK have switched to a full-time four-day week since the pandemic, further signaling a revolution in the world of work inspired by Covid, according to an analysis.