[ad_1] Only a half of staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are in the office “on any one day”, its minister has revealed. Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, told LBC he is not happy about the fact that, on average, just 50 per cent of civil servants are at their…
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[ad_1] Albanian women spend 25 years of their life raising children and carrying out unpaid work such as caring for family members and carrying out domestic chores, according to new data from the World Bank. This high level of burden leads to women being less engaged in the labour market, which in turn hurts family…
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[ad_1] Breadcrumb Trail Links Work News Rumour spreading, excessive flattery toward bosses most common upsetting behaviours workers witnessed Author of the article: Bloomberg News Matthew Boyle Published Apr 28, 2023 • Last updated 3 hours ago • 3 minute read Office suck-ups, popularized by television characters like Dwight Schrute, played by Rainn Wilson, in The Office, continue…
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[ad_1] It has been three years since workers started telecommuting in vast numbers, but state tax laws still haven’t adapted to the new remote-work paradigm and individual taxpayers are paying the price with exasperating state tax-filing procedures. Many taxpayers who work remotely in a different state than their employer’s must prepare multiple state 2022 tax…
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[ad_1] ALBANY – State lawmakers are already the highest-paid legislators in the country at $142,000 per year – and now they can work from home, too. Under new legislative rules approved Thursday, Democratic leaders can now determine what qualifies as “extraordinary circumstances” that would let state Senators and Assembly members attend sessions by video rather than…
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[ad_1] Pedestrians are sparse on downtown Washington’s once-bustling sidewalks. Storefronts are papered over with for-lease signs and light streams through vacant floors of glass office towers. The capital city’s main business district has long relied on the steady work of governing to survive economic downturns. Now it remains strangely desolate and depopulated long after pandemic lockdowns…
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