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Named & Shamed: The Welsh Employers Fined for Failing to Pay Minimum Wage
The UK Government has today named and shamed 182 UK employers – including 10 in Wales – for underpaying more than 9,000 minimum wage workers by £1.11 million. In Wales 10 employers were named for underpaying 159 workers a total of £76,659. They were fined a total of £87,396. The list of Welsh businesses fined […]
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Flood resilience campaigner warns Households & Businesses of flood risk from thawing snow
Mary Dhonau OBE, chief executive of the Know Your Flood Risk campaign and flood resilience champion, is warning households to be prepared for the thaw, which will occur following the spell of freezing wintry conditions that we have witnessed across the country this week. With the Environment Agency currently issuing 15 flood warnings and 35 flood alerts […]
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Three's Wuntu app helps customers to help the homeless at no cost to them
On Wednesday the #DonateyourDough campaign was launched by People of the Streets CIC which encouraged Three mobile customers to give their free Domino’s pizza to a homeless person. A Three spokesperson said: “We are fully supportive of the #DonateyourDough campaign – such a wonderful idea and initiative. This is a great way for Three customers […]
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Educ8 Group celebrate even more employer awards success
Ystrad Mynach success story Educ8 have added to their growing list of awards having been named in the Times Top 100 Companies to work for, and also being named FSB Wales Employer of the Year at a prestigious ceremony at Mercure Holland House Hotel in Cardiff. Firms from across Wales were recently honoured at the FSB Wales […]
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Tech
Innovative Welsh hire platform set to 'uber' the hire market
A new, Cardiff based tech start-up, Anything for Hire is aiming to follow in the footsteps of success stories like Uber and Airbnb, shaking up the UK hire industry with their innovative approach. The process for hiring a service, whether a limousine for a night out or a bouncy castle for a children’s party has proven to be a […]
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Tech
63% of C-Suite leaders ‘more concerned about costs of a security breach’ than about losing customers
Welsh technology specialists ITCS are concerned to learn that the UK’s most senior executives do not fully appreciate the damage to business reputation and loss of customers that a cyber-attack can cause, or the damage that identity theft can do to an individual. One message has been definitely heard – the threat of high fines […]
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UK workers will sit through 9,776 meetings in their lifetime
Long suffering British employees will sit through a mind numbing 9,776 meetings in their working lifetime – with over half of them being deemed as completely pointless, research from Deliveroo for Business has revealed. New research of the nation’s office workers has discovered the average Brit reckons 51 percent of the meetings they attend every […]
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Welsh University lecturers join biggest ever strike for pensions
University lecturers in Wales have joined 64 universities throughout the UK in strike action over plans to change their pension scheme. The strike is the first of 14 days of industrial action over four weeks. Employers’ group Universities UK (UUK) claim the changes are essential as the scheme is running at a deficit, however lecturers who have paid […]
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Finance Secretary meets Irish counterpart to discuss trade links post-Brexit
The 2014-2020 Ireland/Wales programme is providing €100m (with €79m coming from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support collaborative projects in the areas of innovation, adaptation to climate change and tourism, heritage and culture across the Irish Sea. For more than 20 years EU funding has successfully fostered partnerships across the Irish Sea, to […]
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Tech
Welsh Government announces new measures for extending fast broadband in Wales
Multi award-winning Welsh IT & Telecoms specialist ITCS has welcomed the range of new measures to further extend fast and reliable broadband coverage in Wales announced by Leader of the House, Julie James. Availability of superfast broadband across Wales has more than doubled since Superfast Cymru began in 2013, and the latest Ofcom report (December 2017) […]
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