Finance Minister confirms rise in regional rate Responding to an  Assembly written question  this week, Finance Minister John O’Dowd MLA confirmed that the Executive has now formally agreed his ...

“There are 48 million family caregivers who are unpaid. And if you did have to pay them, it would be $600 billion. I keep ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the ...

Since the summer of 2024, three new direct air routes have connected the East Turkestan region to major British airports, sparking alarm over the potential use of forced labour in the supply chains.

Criminals will “operate with increasing impunity” because of Labour’s police funding crisis, critics have warned. Police chiefs warned on Friday that a £100 million funding boost is a ...

The AI world is (as my teenagers say) shook," he said in a post on X. So how much did it cost? The company wrote in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6m (£5m ...

New research by the Retail Technology Show (RTS) found 62% of consumers worry that rising labour costs, triggered by National Insurance and National Minimum Wage hikes, will lead to fewer staff in ...

Halfords has raised its profit expectations for the year following improved trading, but warned it is preparing for a £23m rise in direct labour costs due to changes outlined in the UK’s Autumn ...

Netflix Inc. is raising prices again — though for some viewers, it’s actually been some time since the last hike. The company announced alongside its earnings Tuesday afternoon that it will be ...

The public has turned on Labour after Rachel Reeves’s record ... which was conducted just after a sharp rise in borrowing costs. Fears of a recession are growing as business chiefs warn they ...

The taxable value of supply for computing GST on labour charges includes all direct and indirect expenses associated ... which includes: Basic labour costs Service charges Other contributions such as ...

Labour has been warned against any planned changes ... of disability benefits for those in need far outweighs the public cost. The government has not yet announced its plans for health-related ...