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Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff British workers are putting in more than seven hours unpaid overtime a week, according to a new report. The TUC said that despite a campaign to end the long hours culture, around five million workers are doing an average of five hours six minutes unpaid work per week. They’ve dubbed today Work… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Business secretary Lord Mandelson has announced a review into the skills and productivity of British workers to ensure they can compete with foreign companies for construction contracts. Following from a series of wildcat strikes against the use of foreign workers, the review, announced in conjunction with the skills secretary John Denham, will… Read more »
