Youth and third sector organisations across the United Kingdom are to launch KeepErasmusPlus, a national campaign to save a vital European exchange programme which has benefited over half a million people. Continue reading UK organisations unite to launch Brexit campaign to #KEEPERASMUSPLUS
Day: December 8, 2017
The Greyhound Trust: caring for over a thousand greyhounds this Christmas
The Greyhound Trust urgently needs the help of people in Edinburgh area to find permanent loving homes for greyhounds like Sergio and to help us look after them over the festive season. Continue reading The Greyhound Trust: caring for over a thousand greyhounds this Christmas
Call to ban ALL plastic bottles in the workplace
By banning plastic bottles from the workplace outright, the UK would save 3.9 billion bottles from being produced by 2020 – a saving of 156,000 tonnes of plastic a year. These are the findings of office provider Desk.co.uk who is spearheading a campaign to have all single use plastic bottles outlawed by 2020. Continue reading Call to ban ALL plastic bottles in the workplace
260 employers named and shamed
Foul! Falkirk, Motherwell and Morton football clubs named and shamed
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) today named 260 employers for failing to pay 16,000 workers at least minimum wage rates. Government investigators identified £1.7 million in back pay for some of the UK’s lowest paid workers and fined employers £1.3 million for underpayment. Continue reading 260 employers named and shamed