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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email All eyes are on Jeremy Hunt this week as the chancellor is set to announce his latest spring Budget. Many will be wondering what to expect, how Mr Hunt’s statement will impact their finances, and what it signals it sends about the Tory party ahead of a looming general election. Measures including further tax cuts and public spending reductions are widely expected to be revealed on Wednesday (6 March), with senior Tories hinting that the chancellor could give...

by Paul Bramson, CEO of The Paul Bramson Companies Corporate leadership has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, marked by the emergence of young professionals stepping into pivotal leadership roles. McKinsey & Company reported that nearly one-third of newly appointed 2023 S&P 500 CEOs were under 50. This trend highlights a broader movement where Generation Z (born between the late 1990s and early 2010s) is entering the workforce in droves and swiftly climbing to prominent roles. As these young leaders navigate their role complexities, the need for a solid foundation in leadership principles becomes paramount. Here are four tips...

Over the years, tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have operated with little regulation or restriction. As their influence, wealth, and global presence expanded, various regulatory actions, legislative measures, and legal challenges arose against them in multiple countries including Europe, the United States, China, India, Canada, South Korea, and Australia. Now, the long-awaited global shift towards reigning in these major tech companies has finally occurred. These companies have been compelled to make changes to the technology they offer, affecting their devices and social media services, particularly noticeable to users in Europe. Additionally, they are making significant behind-the-scenes...

by Daniel Johnson March 3, 2024 Despite Robinson’s strong condemnation of LGBTQ+ rights as well as his past statements denying the Holocaust, Trump called Robinson 'an incredible gentleman.' Donald Trump endorsed North Carolina’s current Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson for governor on March 2, fulfilling a promise Trump made months ago. As the Associated Press reports, the former president also compared Robinson to Martin Luther King, Jr. at a campaign rally. Trump called Robinson “Martin Luther King on steroids” before he added, “I told that to Mark. I said, ‘I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are...

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Sign up for our free breaking news emailsReceive real time breaking news alerts straight to your inbox by signing up for our breaking news emailsThe Body Shop has acknowledged violating employment law by abruptly terminating the employment of hundreds of individuals, as reported by The Independent.Administrators for the struggling cosmetics company terminated approximately 270 head office employees last Tuesday, informing them via Microsoft Teams that they would not receive payment beyond that day and would not be provided with any redundancy package.Instead, the dismissed employees, some of whom had been with the company for over a decade, were instructed to...

I have covered economics for 11 years now, and in that time, I have come to the realization that I am a statistic. Every time I make a major life choice, I promptly watch it become the thing that everyone is doing that year. I started college in 2009, in the era of all-time-high matriculation rates. When I moved to a big coastal city after graduation, so did a huge crowd of people: It was the age of millennial urbanization. When I lived in a walk-in closet so that I could pay off my student loans (“The yellow paint makes...

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. Small businesses pay as much as $92 per employee per month for office supplies (according to TonerBuzz). While that may not sound like very much, if you have five employees, that's more than $450 every month that could be better invested elsewhere.One good way to reduce those costs is by being mindful of where you shop. At Costco, members can find significant savings...

When Shawn Fain, the United Automobile Workers president, unveiled the deal that ended six weeks of strikes at Ford Motor in the fall, he framed it as part of a longer campaign. Next, he declared, would be the task of organizing nonunion plants across the country. “One of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract victory is to organize like we’ve never organized before,” he said at the time. “When we return to the bargaining table in 2028, it won’t just be with the Big Three. It will be the Big Five or Big Six.” Four months later,...

The F.T.C. sued to block the biggest supermarket merger in U.S. history. The regulator moved to block Kroger’s $25 billion bid for Albertsons, warning that the deal would raise prices and damage union workers’ bargaining power. Insider trading from home The husband of a former BP merger and acquisitions manager who pleaded guilty this month to eavesdropping on her phone calls and then using what he had learned to illegally earn $1.76 million isn’t alone in exploiting remote work to obtain confidential information. There’s also, for example, the chief compliance officer (yes, the chief compliance officer!) who is accused of...