All Policy & legal articles – Page 81
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NewsMorrisons loses ‘landmark’ data breach legal case
Morrisons faces a compensation claim from thousands of employees after a judge ruled it liable for a data breach.
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NewsIceland and Co-op back plastic bottle deposit scheme
Iceland and Co-op are the first UK supermarkets to back a plastic bottle deposit scheme aimed at reducing pollution.
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OpinionOpinion: Get ready for more hardscrabble years
Let’s hope that a gloomy wage growth outlook from think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is wrong, because otherwise retailers potentially face years more of tough trading.
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OpinionOpinion: Rates respite injects pace into reform agenda
While the case for real reform of the business rates system is clear for Government to see, finding the right moment amid the spider web of fiscal and political challenges has pushed fundamental reform out of our reach for now.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Black Friday, the Budget and business rates
The Retail Week team discuss the biggest stories from the week, including Black Friday, business rates reform and the Budget.
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OpinionOpinion: Retail didn't get the bold Budget it needed
The last time I pondered something like this, I was watching a TED talk on artificial intelligence, wondering where the world is taking us.
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Budget 2017: Business rates to switch to CPI from April
The Government will base business rates increases on the CPI index rather than RPI two years earlier than planned, it revealed in today’s Budget.
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OpinionOpinion: No, John Lewis has not stolen Christmas
Author Christopher Riddell has claimed that this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert about Moz the monster is a plagiarised copy of his 1986 book Mr Underbed.
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NewsRetailers urge Chancellor to deliver 'shoppers' Budget'
Retail leaders have urged Chancellor Phillip Hammond to deliver “a shoppers’ Budget” and put a lid on “inexorable” rises in costs such as business rates.
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OpinionOpinion: The Budget must offer business rates respite
Warning signs for retailers could not be flashing brighter – recent results from Next, M&S and New Look, amongst others, point to a perfect storm developing on the high street.
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OpinionOpinion: There’s retail opportunity beyond the EU
It should come as no surprise that the Brexit negotiations are dragging on with little sign of progress.
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NewsEx-Tesco director sues grocer for unfair dismissal
Tesco’s former commercial director Kevin Grace is suing the supermarket giant for alleged unfair dismissal in the wake of its profits scandal.
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NewsMary Portas high street campaign fails, data shows
The towns revamped under Mary Portas’ ‘Save the High Street’ campaign have lost almost 1,000 shops in just five years, new data has revealed.
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NewsLidl hikes pay of 16,000 shopfloor staff
Lidl is hiking the pay of more than 16,000 shopfloor workers as it reaffirms its commitment to paying staff a ‘real living wage’.
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NewsBusiness rates ‘olive branch’ expected in Budget
Chancellor Philip Hammond is considering abandoning plans to increase business rates by 3.9% next April.
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NewsTesco's Lewis kept in dark over inflated profits, court told
Tesco boss Dave Lewis was kept in the dark about inaccuracies in the grocer’s 2014/15 half-year accounts, a court heard today.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How the interest rate hike will affect retail
The Bank of England issued its first base interest rate rise in a decade earlier today, upping it to 0.5%.
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NewsBank of England hikes interest rates to 0.5%
The Bank of England has increased interest rates for the first time in more than a decade.
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NewsMorrisons' Potts shrugs off potential interest rate hike
Morrisons boss David Potts has downplayed the impact a potential rise in interest rates could have on its progress.
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NewsRecord fall in retail employment as jobs and hours cut
Retail employment fell at the steepest rate in almost a decade over the three months to September.