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Holiday pay must be
Employers must pay staff their full holiday entitlementsif they are off sick for more a year and are unable to take their leave, a tribunal has ruled.James Rawlings, who was off sick for more than ayear before leaving his company, was entitled to be paid
LABOUR SUPPORTS BOSSES IN BA DISPUTE
Gordon Brown has intervened personally in the British Airways industrial dispute in an attempt to avert a walkout by 12,000 cabin crew next weekend.
EDF nuclear reactor carries 'Chernobyl-size' explosion risk
French anti-nuclear campaigners claim a new power plant being built in Normandy carries an accident risk of
UK COAL PRESS RELEASE
UK COAL has noted the speculation in today's Daily Mail relating to a purported proposal for a cash offer for the Group. UK COAL is not aware of any such proposal from the Group's major shareholder or any other source.
RIGHT TO STRIKE 'NO MORE THAN A SLOGAN'
For the last few years the judges have enjoyed a remarkably good press. They have been presented as Herculean figures, the only thing to protect us from the tyranny of state power, their role most recently vindicated in the Binyam Mohammed case. There the
Annual Bentley Memorial
Scottish Coal cuts 600 jobs.
Scottish Coal announced on Friday that it had gone into liquidation. Almost 600 jobs were lost as KPMG were called in. Scottish Coal operates six open cast mines in Scotland. The NUM and other Unions will seek discussions with KPMG and interested parties to retain as many jobs as possible going forw
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GERRY GIBSON INQUEST
The five day inquest into the death of Gerry Gibson who died aged 49 at Kellingley Colliery when a section of the roof in the tailgate of the 502 coalface collapsed on 27th September 2011 has concluded with the Coroner instructing the jury to return a narrative verdict.
Our thoughts and sympathies
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FUNERAL FOR THATCHER
Margaret Hilda Thatcher divided the country while alive and it would appear so in death. The decision by the British Government to hold a ceremonial funeral with military honours, a tribute usually reserved for senior members of the royal family, can only be seen as divisive.
To cap it all th
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DEATH OF THATCHER
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013)
The former UK Prime Minister who held office from 4 May 1979 until 28 November 1990 died 8 April 2013. To her family our condolences.
The legacy of what the Conservative Government did to British Industry under Thatcher is not one to
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