Business In the Community Media Round Up, 21 May 2008
21/05/2008
 

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Watchdog to focus on bankers' bonuses
Financial Times, p.1

The structure and scale of bankers’ bonuses will be taken into account by regulators when they assess banks’ exposure to financial risk.

 
 
Number of migrant workers falls 15%
Financial Times, p.4

The number of eastern and central European migrants applying to work in the UK has fallen to the lowest level for three years as a declining pound and improved job prospects at home have made working in Britain less attractive.

 
 
Call to investigate energy 'oligopolies'
The Guardian, p.28

Britain's electricity and gas supply industry is a "comfortable oligopoly" that feels little need to innovate or compete, an industry watchdog told MPs yesterday.

 
 
Sports Direct promises watchdog to stop 'closing-down sales' at stores that stay open
The Guardian, p.31

Sports Direct has promised not to run confusing or deceptive closing-down sales after the Office of Fair Trading accused it of breaching the rules on misleading advertising. Although the group denied breaking regulations, it has signed an undertaking to not mislead customers.

 
 
Discredited strategy
Society Guardian, p.9

Increasing allegations of corruption and profiteering are raising serious questions about the UN-run carbon trading mechanism aimed at cutting pollution and rewarding clean technologies.

 
 
Evidence supporting airport expansion is flawed, says Government advisor
The Indepedent, p.1

The decision on whether to press ahead with the bitterly contested expansion of Heathrow and Stansted airports must be postponed because the evidence supporting Britain's aviation strategy is "inadequate" and the subject of "fundamental disagreement," a damning report by the Government's own green watchdog will say today.

 
 
Disruptive pupils to be sent to specialist 'sin bins' run by private companies
The Independent, p.11

Private companies are to be given the go-ahead to take over the running of specialist units for teaching the country's most disruptive state school pupils.

 
 
Equal pay deal for agency workers
The Times, p.26

More than one million agency workers will receive the same pay as permanent staff after they have been employed for 12 weeks under a deal brokered by the Government.

 
 
Power companies are ripping off consumers, watchdog tells MPs
The Times, Business p.44

British consumers are being ripped off by a “comfortable oligopoly” of bloated electricity and gas supply companies, MPs were told yesterday.

 
 
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