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Contractor fined for violation of safety legislation ****************************************************      Well Tech Engineering & Construction Company Limited was fined $85,000 at Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts today (May 10) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Management) Regulation. The prosecutions were launched by the…

Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Labour have taken two key mayor jobs from the Tories in a rare glimpse of hope for…

SINGAPORE — Companies in the construction, marine shipyard and process sectors facing a labour crunch and increased costs because of Covid-19 restrictions will get some reprieve in the coming months. Around 15,000 such firms will see an increase in foreign-worker levy rebates from May to December, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) announced…

Synopsis“People are scared to buy from India and uncertain if we can deliver the orders,” said Sharad Kumar Saraf, president of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations. “If cases continue to increase like this, with workers and staff getting infected, we might see an impact.” India’s exports could take a…

S ir Keir Starmer admitted today it would be “tough” for Labour to win the Hartlepool by-election as a new survey put the Conservatives 17 points ahead. The Labour leader stressed that his party had to “earn” every vote and that many voters in the North East constituency were focused…

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Labour has slashed the Conservatives’ lead in several new polls today, with a slew of key elections just days away. Labour’s clawback of the Tory lead comes after Boris Johnson has been hit by a week of cronyism and sleaze allegations. Read more: Tories extend poll lead despite Boris Johnson’s…

On Monday, April 19, when Canada's first woman minister of finance Chrystia Freeland gave her first budget speech she made a point of mentioning her feminist mother. The finance minister's mother, Halyna Chomiak Freeland, died at the age of 60, more than 13 years ago. In their obituary, Halyna Freeland's…

An FMCG company has been forcing its employees to come to office – even when some of them could have worked from home – while restrictions on activities are in force, a young engineer from Maharashtra has claimed. And not just that; some employees were pulled up by the HR…

The Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle says the Conservative government have many questions to answer over the Greensill affair. The member of the Commons Treasury Select Committee and former Treasury minister, claims the government wants to sweep the scandal “under the carpet.” Read More