Attempting to restrict immigration broadly could therefore weigh on the already-low growth rates in many European economies and potentially increase inflation in the region ...

Time-related underemployment in 2024 stayed at a low rate of 2.3 per cent, the same as in 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

In some sectors, the unemployment rate increased due to the rise in retrenchments, the Manpower Ministry said in an advance ...

SINGAPORE’S ratio of working-age residents to elderly residents has nearly halved in the last decade, meaning a higher tax ...

REAL incomes in Singapore made a rebound in 2024 as inflation eased, recovering from the previous year’s decline, the ...

The introduction to the House of Commons of a bill under the ten minute rule by Labour MP Jessica Morden on a review into the law on e-scooters, from Wednesday 27 November. We use cookies to give you ...

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Imposing pet passports for dogs, cats and ferrets to travel from one part of the UK to another has been branded an “outrage” ...

Politicians behind Australian assisted dying laws have written to MPs saying that end-of-life care there is “now safer and fairer than ever before”, on the eve of a major vote at Westminster. Six ...

Australia's world-beating labour market is one of the main obstacles stopping the country's central bank from joining global ...

For 14 years, successive governments, state agencies, the judicial system and the union bureaucracy have worked to prevent ...