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• Brexit confusion could hit EU tenants in UK, say landlords

  07-04-2019 21:00
  Residential Landlords Association blames lack of clarity over settled status schemeEU citizens will face problems renting properties in the UK because of Brexit, private landlords have said.The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) said the confusion over Brexit meant some landlords were likely to refuse EU citizens as future tenants because the government had failed to give them clear instructions over the settled status scheme introduced last week. Continue reading...
  
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• Tampon tax: women's charities urge for cash to be ringfenced

  07-04-2019 20:04 via theguardian.com
  Open letter from Women’s Resource Centre says current allocation damages ‘fragile women’s charity sector’ The struggling women’s charity sector is suffering further damage as a result of the way funds raised from the tampon tax are being allocated, it has been claimed.In an open letter to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, more than 100 women, including academics and representatives of women’s charities, have urged the government to ringfence cash ra
  
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• UK businesses using artificial intelligence to monitor staff activity

  07-04-2019 13:38
  Unions warn systems such as Isaak may increase pressure on workers and cause distrustDozens of UK business owners are using artificial intelligence to scrutinise staff behaviour minute-to-minute by harvesting data on who emails whom and when, who accesses and edits files and who meets whom and when.The actions of 130,000 people in the UK and abroad are being monitored in real time by the Isaak system, which ranks staff members’ attributes. Continue reading...
  
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• Councils face a losing battle as they crack down on rogue agencies

  07-04-2019 09:00
  Despite dawn raids and legal action, the number of unlicensed rentals in houses of multiple occupation continues to growIt was before sunrise on a wintry morning that we gathered on a street corner in north London – a clutch of council officials, two police officers and myself. At a signal, the officials hammered on the doors of two tatty maisonettes above a surgery and waved warrants at the bleary faces that appeared in the windows.This was a dawn raid on two of the myriad houses in multi
  
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