Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged by MPs to 'think again' when it comes to means-testing the winter fuel payments and increase the threshold for the allowance ahead of the new budget announcement today.
A four-day working week is ‘no threat to the economy’, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as she vowed to ‘work with’ town halls.
South Cambridgeshire District Council, which allows its employees to ‘deliver 100 per cent of their work in around 80 per cent of their hours for 100 per cent of their pay’, received a best value notice from the then Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities last November, warning that ‘the removal of up to a fifth of the capacity of the council means that it is unlikely, in aggregate, for it to be able to support continuous improvement’.
Read More Council is ordered to halt 4-day week 'immediately': Minister pens fiery letter to demand value for taxpayers Labour’s Deputy Prime Minister, who is also the Local Government Secretary, replied: ‘I’m really proud of our Employment Rights Bill, and I’m really proud to stand here as someone who says and advocates for flexible working.
On Monday, Ms Badenoch asked the Government front bench about the Employment Rights Bill’s impact on councils’ costs, and whether they would receive compensation.
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