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Mandelson may recommend redundancy pay rise
Minimum redundancy pay set to rise

By politics.co.uk staff The government is set to raise the minimum redundancy payment in a bid to help counteract the effects of the recession. At present, the payment stands at one week’s pay for every full year’s service between the ages of 22 and 41 and one and a half week’s pay for older employees…. Read more »

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EU issue is separate from Lindsey, govt says
No 10 downplays role of EU directive

By Alex Stevenson Downing St appeared keen to downplay the role of the contentious posted workers directive (PWD) as it sought to explain its stance on wildcat strikes today. Unions are angry with the government for allowing foreign workers to “undercut” British ones at the Lindsey oil refinery, owned by Total, in Lincolnshire. In a… Read more »