The 2025 General Assembly has ended and legislators sent Gov. Glenn Youngkin a modest bill that would allow all workers in Virginia to earn up to five paid sick days to use when they or their children ...

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Major changes to sick pay rules will see more than one million people on low wages get 80% of their weekly salary from the first day of illness. Under current rules, you qualify for statutory sick ...

Short-term (acute) stress is a normal part of life and can help you prepare for a challenge and respond to a dangerous situation. However, long-term (chronic) stress can lead to physical and mental ...

They keep salad dressing from separating, ice cream from dripping and muffins from hardening. Emulsifiers, used to improve the texture of food, are in all sorts of products. But there is growing ...

More than one million low-paid workers in the UK are to be entitled to 80% of their weekly salary as sick pay from the first day of illness, under government plans. Currently, to qualify for ...

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The opening of Edinburgh's sick kids hospital was delayed after NHS Lothian failed to give clear ventilation requirements for the building, an inquiry has found ...

Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Britain’s 1.3mn workers on the lowest incomes will be eligible for sickness payments from their employers for ...

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) condemned the Trump administration over the recent fallout with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during Friday’s Oval Office meeting broadcasted by the ...