Edition 4004: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Focus of the Day Article: TUC seeks changes to draft law to help seafarers after P&O Ferries scandal. Sacking of nearly 800 crew in favour of low-paid agency workers in March led to calls for loopholes to be closed in seafarers’ wages bill. Full story -
Guardian Law
Today's Highlighted Video Story: The offer by the Royal College of Nurses - to suspend strikes if the Government meets with them to negotiate over pay - looks set to go unheeded. Because, Ministers have insisted that - while their door is open to sit down with the Union - it is not the Government's role to negotiate pay, adding that those decisions rest with the NHS.
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