Workers rights second place to economic growth

“Bio-based polymers, bamboo fibres and organic cotton all come with higher raw material and processing costs than traditional plastics, while the supply chains for these sustainable inputs are still immature, making prices volatile and challenging for mass market brands,” she says.

Thames Water has apologised to a customer after trying to take £145,000 from his bank account due to a meter reading error by the company. Adam Bainbridge, a teacher from north London, discovered while routinely checking his accounts on Thursday morning that Thames had debited £145,562 from his bank account. His wife Julia told the…

Income tax thresholds, which have been frozen under successive chancellors, will stay at current levels until April 2031 as planned. But after that they are expected to start to rise again with inflation. John Healey may not have mentioned the end of this policy in his Budget speech – after all, it is still some…

Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter Getty Images The first official data in weeks on the US job market is out, and it showed a surprising pick-up in hiring after a lacklustre summer. Employers added 119,000 jobs in September, more than double what many analysts had expected, but the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.3% to 4.4%, the…

Josh MartinBusiness reporter Getty Images The report will look at Covid-era programmes like Eat Out to Help Out, which subsidised hospitality bills Covid-19 support programmes cost taxpayers nearly £11bn through fraud and error, a report will say. The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner Tom Hayhoe will say fraudsters exploited a “golden opportunity” when he shares his…