Category: Couriers/delivery industry

On-demand UK grocery firms plan to switch riders back to gig contracts

Couriers will be moved to cheaper insecure deals after government fails on promise to bring in new employment billRapid grocery delivery firms are preparing to move hundreds of couriers paid by the hour on to insecure...

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‘Economically illiterate’: business leaders blast PM’s Tory conference speech

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’Boris Johnson’s vision for the UK has had a frosty reception with business and union leaders, with one...

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‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s Tory conference speech gets frosty reception

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’Boris Johnson’s vision for the UK has had a frosty reception with business and union leaders, with one...

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Boris Johnson: petrol crisis and pig cull part of necessary post-Brexit transition

Prime minister says UK cannot go back to ‘failed old model’ of immigration and low wagesQueues for petrol and mass culls of pigs at farms because of a lack of abattoir workers are part of a necessary transition for...

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Supply chain crisis could last months admits PM but fuel situation ‘improving’

Labour accuses PM of ‘reducing the country to chaos’ with cars continuing to queue and fights breaking outBritain’s supply chain strain could last until after Christmas, Boris Johnson has admitted as he urged...

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End to freedom of movement behind UK fuel crisis, says Merkel’s likely successor

Olaf Scholz, poised to become next chancellor, wades into row over HGV driver shortageThe centre-left politician in pole position to replace Angela Merkel as German chancellor has pinpointed the decision to bring an end to...

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Fix UK lorry driver shortage or face ‘inevitable’ Christmas disruption, retailers warn

Acute lack of skilled drivers prompts queues at petrol stations while ONS reports shoppers cannot buy all the food they wantSignificant disruption to Christmas is “inevitable” unless the government fixes an acute...

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Delaying Brexit border checks on food won’t prevent shortages, UK firms warn

Current supply issues are largely due to workforce availability not red tape on imports, say businessesBritish business leaders have urged the government not to delay the next phase of Brexit border checks on imports from the EU...

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Shop prices rise amid driver shortages and Brexit red tape

Retail data shows 0.4% month-on-month increase in August, with 0.6% rise in non-foodUK shop prices rose last month, according to the latest data from the British Retail Consortium, in a sign that driver shortages and the costs...

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