adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs (CPIH), was 2.1% for regular pay and 1.9% for total pay in December 2024 to February 2025. There were an ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's palm oil producers are racing to adjust to an acute shortage of workers due to the coronavirus and sharply higher costs of recruitment as they make changes in response to ...

The Labour Party government is giving the green ... “Councils continue to face severe funding shortages and soaring cost and demand pressures on local services. “This means that many councils ...

Despite the surge in long-term UK borrowing costs, Sir Keir vowed to keep to Labour's fiscal rules on spending and debt. He told ITV's Peston programme: 'The fiscal rules were put in for a purpose ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claims Labor’s cost-of-living reduction measures will be “permanent” while the Opposition’s are temporary. “What we want is things that are permanent ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the “worst” thing Australia can have is a Labor and Greens-aligned ... on interest rates affecting the cost of living for all. “It is reflective of ...

Labour’s nationalisation of a major train company will cost taxpayers an extra £250 million after a blunder by civil servants, The Telegraph can reveal. South Western Railway (SWR), which ...

we’re now seeing the government go down the inevitable path of pushing that cost on to taxpayers.” Mr Kavonic said “after many other examples”, it was another case where “Labor has gone ...

The latest figures released on Friday afternoon (28 Mar 2025) by the EU Commission’s official statistics agency show the cost of employment across all 27 member countries. Not only do they show the ...

Hourly labour costs ranged from €10.6 in Bulgaria to €55.2 in Luxembourg in 2024. In 2024, the average hourly labour costs in the EU were estimated to be €33.5, up on 2023's rate of €31.9 ...