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By politics.co.uk staff European plans to force companies to provide 20 weeks of maternity leave at full pay are being challenged by the government. The pregnant workers directive was put forward by the European parliament in October, but London has claimed the plans and unaffordable and “regressive”. Employment minister Ed Davey heads to Brussels today… Read more »
Most of us have spent the last week skidding and sliding around in snow and ice. Politicians’ slip-ups have been no less impressive. Every day, it seems, ministers have been turning up their collars against bitter headwinds. Monday saw the biggest blizzard of all – a storm of leaked US diplomatic cables courtesy of whistleblowing… Read more »
