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[UK] Prime minister confirms mini-budget U-turn after sacking chancellor [UK] Prime minister confirms mini-budget U-turn after sacking chancellor

Liz Truss said, "I want to be honest, this is difficult" after sacking her chancellor and reversing key policies of...
14 Oct 2022

[Italy] PostePay and Mastercard launch a digitized payment requests solution [Italy] PostePay and Mastercard launch a digitized payment requests solution

Request to Pay allows billers to request payment of goods and services, digitally and in real-time.
14 Oct 2022

[UK] Virgin among the first companies to offer paid carer and neonatal leave [UK] Virgin among the first companies to offer paid carer and neonatal leave

Employees are now entitled to up to 12 weeks of neonatal leave, in addition to five days of paid carer's...
12 Oct 2022

[Poland] Financial bonus for employers hiring retired people [Poland] Financial bonus for employers hiring retired people

The legislation, currently under preparation, is one of the "milestones" Poland must fulfil in order to unblock funding from an...
12 Oct 2022

[UK] Financial worries mean 3 in 5 new dads don’t take full paternity leave [UK] Financial worries mean 3 in 5 new dads don’t take full paternity leave

A third of the dads surveyed said that their ‘dissatisfactory’ paternity leave package made them feel financially unstable.
10 Oct 2022

[Portugal] 5.1 per cent private sector wage increase deal reached for 2023 [Portugal] 5.1 per cent private sector wage increase deal reached for 2023

The increases are a benchmark for the more than 4 million private sector workers in Portugal.
10 Oct 2022