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• Blog: The chancellor should look again at the impact of NI tax hike

  06-04-2022 14:42
  
  British households are facing a financial crisis, with living standards set to see the biggest drop in 50 years. But the cost of living is not the only thing on the up: the cost of working is getting more expensive too.
  There are rising costs for simply doing your job – whether it’s the commute, childcare, using a vehicle for work, car-parking or taxes and, after more than a decade of real-terms pay cuts, public sector workers are being left seriously out of pocket.
  Today, the cost o
  
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• Delays to university pay talks are ‘unacceptable’ say unions

  06-04-2022 11:23
  
  Joint education unions, including UNISON, have voiced their ‘outrage’ at the university employers’ decision not to present a pay offer for members in the first meeting of the 2022/23 pay round, last week.
  The five unions, who are part of the Joint Negotiating Committee for the Higher Education Sector (JNCHES), released a statement yesterday, condemning the decision by the Universities and Colleges Employer’s Association (UCEA) that they were “not yet in a position&r
  
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