18 h. ago McDonald's issues statement on strict staff rule which bans perk

The fast food chain has more than 120,000 workers across the UK but there is one strict rule those in its restaurants must follow

Politics

59 h. ago More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate

Workers say the firm’s ‘warp-speed’ approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissionsMore than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing “serious concerns” about AI development, saying that the company’s “all-costs justified, warp speed” approach to the powerful technology will cause damage to “democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.”The letter, published on Wednesday, was signed by the Amazon workers anonymously, and comes a month after Amazon announced mass layoff plans as it increases adoption of AI in its operations. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Anyone earning under £35,000 given new £200 warning by experts

Workers earning under £35,000 could lose take-home pay due to frozen income tax thresholds extended for three more years, Resolution Foundation analysis warns

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3 d. ago Robots and artificial intelligence to replace 6,000 workers at major tech company

Tech giant HP is set to axe up to 6,000 jobs worldwide as it turns to robots and artificial intelligence to cut costs and speed up innovation, with most layoffs hitting internal operations

Technology

3 d. ago These home workers to lose up to £124 tax break as 300,000 brace for Budget raid

The move will hand the Treasury tens of millions of pounds a year, with higher-rate taxpayers facing a tax increase of up to £124

Economics

4 d. ago Workers and businesses ‘will feel pain from £2,000 salary sacrifice cap’

Salary-sacrificed pension contributions above an annual £2,000 threshold will no longer be exempt from national insurance from April 2029.

Economics

4 d. ago Mortons Rolls staff win £1m compo payout after bitter court battle with UK Government

One hundred workers have today been paid £500,000 of the compensation cash, with the other half expected to follow in the coming months.

Economics

5 d. ago Martin Lewis urges almost 400,000 minimum wage workers to check if they’re being underpaid

Almost 400,000 people on minimum wage should check that they are not being underpaid, Martin Lewis has explained.

Politics

6 d. ago Top minister blasts Reform and Tories' views on Britain as she unveils major tech plan

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall criticised Reform UK and the Tories for talking the country down as she hailed Labour’s record funding in research and development

Politics

1 week ago How 2.3m workers will face the £100,000 tax trap within four years thanks to frozen thresholds

More people than ever are being caught in the 60 per cent tax trap, which affects those earning between £100,000 and £125,150.

Economics

1 week ago Dunstable warehouse worker wins £80k Range Rover after spending just 22p

A warehouse worker from Dunstable was left in tears after winning an £80,000 Range Rover D300 through a prize draw that cost him just 22p

Economics

1 week ago Major WhatsApp flaw exposes 3.5 BILLION accounts as urgent warning issued to all users

A STUDY has revealed a major vulnerability in WhatsApp that can expose 3.5billion accounts. Cybersecurity experts have warned users of a simple flaw that allowed them to harvest their "metadata". Researchers have been able to access personal information, including phone numbers, location, device type and the account's age through the weakness. The University of Vienna...

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1 week ago Mind the glitch: is Hollywood finally getting to grips with movies about artificial intelligence?

As Gore Verbinski’s AI-apocalypse film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hurtles towards us, it’s clear from the over-caffeinated trailer that we won’t be getting another ponderous parable about robot souls, digital enlightenment or the hubris of manIt’s easy to forget, given the current glut of robot-uprising doom flicks, that Hollywood has been doing the artificial intelligence thing for decades – long before anything resembling true AI existed in the real world. And now we live in an era in which a chatbot can write a passable sonnet, it is perhaps surprising that there hasn’t been a huge shift in how film-makers approach this particular corner of sci-fi.Gareth Edwards’ The Creator (2023) is essentially the same story about AIs being the newly persecuted underclass as 1962’s The Creation of the Humanoids, except that the former has an $80m VFX budget and robot monks while the latter has community-theatre production values. Moon (2009) and 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey are both about ...

Culture

2 w. ago USPS warns of price hikes and ‘urgent need’ for changes after suffering another huge blow

The USPS reduced its workforce by 10,000 workers earlier this year and has rolled out steady price increases

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2 w. ago USPS issues warning about changes and future of postal service as it suffers another huge blow

The USPS reduced its workforce by 10,000 workers earlier this year and has rolled out steady price increases

Events

2 w. ago Russia unveils humanoid AI robot that immediately collapses on stage

The robot's debut in Moscow went awry on Tuesday when the robot - believed to be Russia's first powered by artificial intelligence - took a tumble.

Politics

2 w. ago Another day in Starmer's socialist paradise: 1,000 jobs a day are LOST under Reeves

Figures from the ONS revealed a spike in job losses as the Budget approaches, with a 64,000 decline in the number of payrolled workers over September and October and 180,000 over a year

Politics

2 w. ago Tell us: are you a New Zealander planning to leave the country?

We want to hear from people in New Zealand who have or are thinking of leaving Over the past few years, tens of thousands of New Zealanders have left the country, surpassing the last spike in 2012 and raising fears of a “hollowing out” of mid-career workers.Provisional data showed nearly 74,000 New Zealand citizens departed in the year to August 2025, up from the previous record of 73,300. It followed record numbers leaving through 2023 and into 2024. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘It will be repaid many times over’: £12,000 cost to send worker to French Riviera conference defended by council

Workers from several Greater Manchester councils travelled to Cannes earlier this year to promote the region at a global conference

Economics

3 w. ago Black Friday tech deal offers Apple, Samsung and Amazon gadgets for £10

We've found a way to snag premium tech from major brands like Sony, Apple and LG at a fraction of the usual price

Economics