Cost of Living Crisis

Compass Group UK & Ireland has been awarded the Living Wage Champion Award in the 'Recognised Service Provider' category of the Living Wage Foundation's annual awards.

Insurance companies will be able to identify vulnerable households more easily under a landmark data-sharing partnership agreed just weeks before new consumer protection standards come into force in the United Kingdom.

Workers in Amazon's Mansfield and Rugeley fulfilment centres will take part in a binding vote on strike action following the announcement from GMB of two more strike ballots.

A food company worth 4 billion that makes own brand curries for supermarkets including Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury's is threatening 1,000 workers with fire and rehire.

Kseniya Savelyeva, Indices Manager at the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS), comments on the organisation's most recent quarterly survey of housebuilders in the United Kingdom.

The countryside is battling a 'hidden homelessness' crisis driven by soaring housing costs and a gaping shortfall in central UK government funding for local authorities, according to a report by academics at the University of Kent and the University of Southampton.

Electricity network provider Northern Powergrid takes a look at the cost of rapid electric vehicle charging following recent suggesting prices in the United Kingdom soared by 21 per

New research from Sony Professional Displays & Solutions reveals UK and German retailers are preparing proactively for the critical Christmas and New Year trading period as their counterparts in France adopt a more laissez-faire approach. Despite retailers entering the first un-disr

To mark Living Wage Week in the United Kingdom, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) is renewing calls for cleaning and hygiene sector businesses to pay the real Living Wage - a voluntary salary scale tha

Compass Scotland has launched a new surplus food partnership with food charity, FareShare.

Half of Asda workers who participated in a GMB survey are worried they won't be able to afford Christmas dinner this year due to low wages as the union calls on Britain's third-

ASDA is once again the worst-paying of the UK's 'Big Four' supermarkets after Tesco, Sainsbury's and Aldi increased wages to help workers cope with the cost of living crisis says the GMB Union as it calls on bosses to 'wake up'. According to the union, basic pay for Asda retail

UK supplier of lone worker safeguarding solutions Reliance Protect has teamed up with two longstanding customers to create social value funds dedicated to supporting people experiencing hardship during the cost of living crisis. The social value funds provide an invaluable safety net for some of th

Atalian Servest has begun a phased rollout of a new financial wellbeing solution for its workforce after partnering with instant access-to-pay provider Wagestream to help address the impact of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis on employees.

UK charity The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) has launched a 'return to school' grant to help cover the cost of school uniforms, P.E. kit and other equipment as a response to what it describes as "unacceptable financial choices" facing farming families in the run up to the n