Durham Police has issued redundancy warnings to all civilian workers in the force, including police community support officers. 1,160 staff have been warned that their jobs are at risk, and around 200 posts are expected to be lost.
When we apply the fairness test, our starting point is, rightly, the overall distributional impact according to income level. But gender and family-friendliness are also important factors when deciding whether the Budget passed the fairness test.
The Conservative Manifesto promised to ‘make Britain the most family-friendly country in Europe’. In a recent speech, Nick Clegg declared that the government’s agenda for children and families stands ‘at the heart of our coalition’. [1] Yet in
The insured’s duty to mitigate its damages after a loss is a well-recognized principle in property insurance law. In business interruption claims insureds are required to take affirmative steps to reduce their loss of earnings after a loss. While an actual business loss occurs only where the insured is unable to reduce or eliminate lost profits, insureds are not necessarily required to engage in super-heroic-acts to mitigate their business interruption loss.
In Gordon Chemical Co. v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co., 266 N.E. 2d 653 (1971), there was an explosion at the insured’s manufacturing plant which forced the insured to shut down operations for 15 months after the loss. In
July 16th, 2010Cuts Watch #133: Bus Passes
Press reports today say that the Department for Transport’s list of cuts includes an accelerated timetable for raising the qualifying age for the English bus passes scheme.
Since April 2008, older people and some disabled people have been eligible for free off-peak bus travel. There is a strategy for increasing the qualifying age in line with the raising of the state pension age, so that it will be 65 for men and women by 2020.
Every Department has to send the Treasury a set of cuts that would achieve 25 per cent savings and a set that would achieve 40 per cent. To
July 13th, 2010Pat McFadden’s Fabian speech
Pat McFadden, the Shadow Business Minister, made a thoughtful speech to the Fabian Society this morning. He resolutely defended the last Labour Government’s economic record, questioned the Con-Lib decision to “cut faster and deeper than we (i.e. Labour) would”, rubbished the idea that the UK was in a similar economic position to Greece and made the case for active industrial policies in pursuit of growth. It’s well summarised by Sunder at Next Left.
It was all good stuff. The controversial bit came in the following two sentences: “‘Fight the cuts’ is a tempting slogan in Opposition, and there are indeed some that must be fought. But if that is