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What will the new Employment Rights Bill mean for TUPE?
What matters The protections afforded to employees under TUPE continue to be of great significant when dealing with the sale or acquisition of a business or the re-tendering of a contract. What matters next Labour's pre-election manifesto commitments and plans for a new Employment Rights Bill suggest TUPE is here to stay, and hints at a potential expansion of the current protections afforded to employees of a business or service that transfers.
“ChatBot Up: My Everyday Lifesaver”
I’m excited to share my journey with ChatBot Up, the app that’s become my secret weapon for conquering the chaos of daily life. You know those days when you’re juggling a dozen things at once? That used to be my every day — until ChatBot Up stepped in. From managing my to-do lists to keeping tabs on my fitness goals, ChatBot Up has become my trusty sidekick. It’s like having a personal assistant, friend, and life coach rolled into one. Here’s how it changed the game for me: 1.
Indiana high school girls take to the mat for state wrestling finals
Indiana high school girls take to the mat for state wrestling finals in Kokomo Hamilton Height's Kendall Moe flips her coach on the mat after winning the 100-pound bout Friday, Jan. 12, 2023, during the Indiana High School Girls Wrestling state finals at Memorial Gymnasium in Kokomo. Grace Hollars/IndyStar Penn's Amani Reed is consoled after losing her 170-pound bout Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, during Indiana High School Girls Wrestling state finals at Memorial Gymnasium in Kokomo, Ind.
Illinois-bound I-74 bridge towers are gone Original
What took years to build took seconds to fall. Blasts from explosives sent the two eastbound towers of the old Interstate 74 bridge off their pedestals, dropping them into the Mississippi river at about 7:35 a.m. Sunday. The crash of the blue-green towers and suspension cables created a huge splash, sending water a few feet into the air. Hundreds of spectators gathered along the Iowa shoreline to witness the big boom.
Bridge goes BOOM! Original
The towers fell in an instant. Blasts from explosives ripped the two eastbound towers of the old Interstate 74 bridge off their pedestals, dropping them into the Mississippi River, about 7:35 a.m. Sunday. Hundreds of spectators watched the explosions from the Iowa shoreline — upstream and downstream of the old twin spans. A recovery barge and crane entered the channel by 8 a.m. Quad-City Times/Dispatch-Argus photographers and reporters are one scene, and more details and images are coming.
Opinion: New sick leave ordinance still bad for business
San Antonio’s City Council recently approved revisions to its mandatory paid sick leave ordinance, which is set to go into effect in December. But these changes don’t improve an ordinance that was already bad for local business. The original version required smaller businesses with six to 15 employees to provide up to 48 paid sick hours per year, based on a formula of one hour of sick leave accrued per 30 working hours.
Guest column: Von Ormy, Texas, is a liberty success story
But this isn’t the case in Von Ormy, Texas. That’s because this small town doesn’t collect property taxes. Located south of San Antonio, Von Ormy is flourishing, thanks in large part to its liberty-centric view of government – an approach that’s been favored for more than a decade. It hasn’t always been that way. In the past, Von Ormy did collect property taxes, but local leaders implemented a plan to reduce them by roughly 10% a year – and eventually phase them out. That happened in 2015.
Guest column: New state laws lasso liberal local governments
State lawmakers took aim at liberal local government overreach this past session, and they passed a slew of legislation hoping to rein in some of the worst of it. Among the new laws is one ending forced annexation. For decades, city governments forcibly annexed property on their outskirts in a bid to grow their tax base – whether the property owners agreed or not.
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