Employers, the leasing industry, professional advisers and many government departments including the DTI, were taken by surprise when withdrawal of the tax relief on computers supplied to employees was announced in the recent Budget. Numerous re...

Government plans to ensure that workers don't have to take Bank Holidays as part of their annual leave will see the UK start to catch up with its European counterparts in terms of holiday provision. Currently up to two million workers in the UK hav...

December to April is bonus season. According to the latest annual report from the Office for National Statistics, bonuses for UK staff have reached a record £19 billion, a rise of £2.5 billion since last year. The forthcoming months will...

Following a government call to extend flexible working rights to all workers, including non-parents, employment law experts at Eversheds believe the move could prevent tensions arising between workers with children and those without. Research condu...

In a somewhat timely judgment, bearing in mind the May bank holidays, the Court of Session (the Scottish Court of Appeal) has clarified that it is not necessarily unlawful for an employer to not provide alternative leave days for part-time workers w...

The Chancellor has announced some important changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) regime. These changes may have a significant impact on the tax payable by your employees holding shares in your company traded on the full list. Abolition of taper r...

Gordon Brown has announced that the Government plans to introduce legislation giving new rights to agency workers and working parents in the next parliamentary session.  In addition, all workers are to be given the right to ask for time off wor...

If you have not yet responded to the Eversheds survey as to the likely impact of the changes to agency worker rights upon your business and would like to do so by 13 June, please click here.   Main body The topics of equal rights for age...

After what has already proved a busy week for employment law news, the Government has published its consultation response to the second round of consultation on Agency Worker Regulations, which closed in December last year. The...

Introduction The Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011 (“the Bill”) was published on Friday 16 December 2011. The Bill is intended to give effect to an EU Directive (Directive 2008/104/EC) on...

The Ukrainian government promised that all medical personnel would be tested for COVID-19 once every five days, but doctors have told RFE/RL that has not happened. Medics also said that there were shortages of protective gear and that government promises of increased pay have not been met.

Six Pakistani security personnel, including an officer, were killed in a roadside bomb attack near the South Asian nation’s border with Iran.

Russia registered more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the sixth day in a row -- an indication the spread of the virus inside the country remains serious despite a stringent lockdown-- as the Communist party leader called for the release of non-violent criminals from prison .

The top members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee say an increase in violence in Afghanistan has raised questions about the Taliban’s commitment to an agreement it signed with the United States in February.

President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day calling for unity and a dignified honoring of those killed during World War II, even as the coronavirus pandemic curtailed the pomp the Kremlin had planned for Russia’s most important secular holiday. 

A 97-year-old Russian World War II veteran has been inspired by the fund-raising efforts of Captain Tom Moore. She says she can't walk around a garden to gather donations like the 100-year-old British veteran did, but she is posting war stories online every day to raise money for the families of Russian medics who have died fighting COVID-19.

Farmers in Afghanistan are growing poppies in government-controlled areas, insisting that there are no real economic alternatives to cultivating the flowers for the opium trade. It's estimated that Afghanistan's poppy fields are the source for much of the world's illegal heroin supply.

The global death toll from the coronavirus is more than 275,000 with almost 4 million infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions as governments continue to try to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness.

Thousands of people jammed the center of the Belarusian capital to watch soldiers and military units march as part of celebrations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany, celebrations that took place despite serious concerns about the coronavirus.

By RNZ The cost of mandatory quarantine on both sides of the Tasman means a New Zealander living in Brisbane will not be reunited with his dying mother in Auckland.A close friend of the man - both of whom RNZ has agreed not...

Police have released the name of the man who died following a crash on State Highway 51, Napier, on Thursday.He was David Allan Trousdell, 37, of Napier.It's understood Mr Trousdell's car collided with a truck at Te Awa. The crash...

A "mass of surfers" have converged on one of Wellington's most popular surf beaches.A Wellington local, who wanted to be known only as Brendan, said he was in the area for work when he decided to stop and see what was happening...

A man involved in a $2.5 million meth bust in Hawke's Bay has had his three and a half year prison sentence dropped to 12 months of home detention.Uriah Whetu Monty Wirihana received a prison sentence of three years and seven months...

COMMENT: Want to know how the PM felt about the idea of making the lockdown even tougher on the back of surveys indicating public support for such measures? Or why the Finance Minister lost the battle to open the wage subsidy...

There are two new cases of Covid-19 today, one confirmed and one probable, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.Both cases are linked to the St Margaret's Hospital & Rest Home in Auckland.The confirmed case is a household...

Covid-19 has tipped some struggling and startup businesses over already - but the real toll will emerge in the coming months. READ MORE:• Receiver says wage subsidy propping up a walking-dead army of 'zombie firms' John...

Close contacts of Covid-infected people are now being checked on every day to ensure compliance and see if they have developed any symptoms, Health Minister David Clark says.But an app to complement contact-tracing work was still...

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Police are warning Kiwis not to flout the law after hordes took to the beach today despite the country still being at alert level 3. The day started with a "mass" of surfers converging on Wellington's Lyall Bay, and as the weather...

More revelations have been uncovered from the Government's coronavirus document dump, while new cases remain low as Cabinet prepares to decide when to move to alert level 2. Get all the important news and read the full stories in...

A man has been taken to hospital after a he was hurt by a bull in Southland this afternoon.St John Ambulance tweeted that they had been called to Riversdale, 30 kilometres north-west of Gore, just after 4pm."Two vehicles attended...

Police fear bars will be "swamped" when the country finally drops to level 2.On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will reveal when New Zealand will drop a level in its Covid-19 warning system – with the move potentially coming...

Masaajidyada ku yaal Jarmalka ayaa dib loogu furi doona albaabada si ay ugu cibaadeysantaan dadka Muslimiinta ah, arrintan ayaa imaanaysa ka dib go’aan ka soo baxay dawladda oo lagu fududeynayo xannibaadda Jarmalka lagu soo rogey kadib Fayraska Korona. Masaajida ku yaal dalka ayaa si tartiib tartiib ah dib loogu furi doona iyadoo la raacayo tilmaamaha […]

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Soomaaliya waxa ay guddoontay maalintii Khamiis ahayd (7 May) shixnaddii labaad oo ah kaalmo agab caafimaad oo ay ku deeqday Dowladda Jamhuuriyadda Shacbiga Shiinaha si looga hortago COVID-19, iyadooo ka koobnayd maaskaro, galoofyo, dareeraha gacmaha lagu nadiifiyo, qalabka baaridda-caafimaad iyo dharka ilaalinta leh ee loogu talogalay in ay ku labistaan xirfadlayaasha caafimaadka. Tan iyo 24 […]

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Dalka Talyaaniga ayaa noqday wadankii ugu horeeyay ee ka tirsan Ururka Midowga Yurub oo diiwaangeliyay in cudurka Coronavirus ay ugu dhinteen dad gaaraya soddon kun oo ruux sida la xaqiijiyay, Maanta oo keli ah 243 ruux ayaa dhimashadooda, la diiwaangeliya geeriyootay dalka Talyaaniga. Maalin walba tirada cudurkan laga heli jirey dalka Talyaaniga ayaa hoos ugu […]

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Wasiirka Shaqada iyo Arrimaha bulshada ee Xukumadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Sadiiq Xirsi warfaa ayaa sheegay in si habsami leh uu u socdo barnaamijka Baxnaano oo loogu talagalay in lagu kaalmeeyo dadka danyara ah. Wasiirka Warfaa ayaa sheegay in mashruucaan uu yahay mid ay leedahay Dowladda Soomaaliyeed, isla markaana uu taageero ka heysto Bankiga aduunka waxaana bishii […]

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Taliyiha ciidanka Boolis magaalada Dhuusamareeb ee maamul goboleedka Galmudug Burhaan Axmed ayaa iska casaley xilkii uu degmada ka hayey kadib markii rag ka tirsan shabakad isku xiran oo al-Shabaab ah oo uu soo qabtey xabsiga laga sii daayey iyada oo la diidey in wax baaritaan ah la mariyo. ”Waxaa xabsiga Dhuusamareeb laga sii daayay laba […]

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