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Employment tribunal fees

vendredi 28 juillet 2017 à 02:00

The UK's Supreme Court has eliminated the fees that made employment tribunals too expensive for most workers to use.

Such fees made it easy for employers to steal the wages of low-paid workers (a very common practice) and cheat them in other ways.

Deputy Saboteur of the Interior

vendredi 28 juillet 2017 à 02:00

A lobbyist for oil companies is now the Deputy Saboteur of the Interior.

US blocks visitors by surprise at airport

vendredi 28 juillet 2017 à 02:00

The US refuses to explain to a British couple why they were refused entry to the US for their honeymoon, despite having approved them in advance.

I don't think any country is obliged to accept all visitors that wish to enter. There are various legitimate reasons to keep someone out. But the US demonstrates unreliability as well as incompetence by giving people visas and then blocking them by surprise at the airport.

Why take a foolish risk? Don't visit the US. Go somewhere else which won't screw you over.

China's investments in fossil fuel

vendredi 28 juillet 2017 à 02:00

China invests heavily in fossil fuel development in other countries, in many cases oppressing indigenous people that are kicked off their land.

Urgent: Raise the minimum wage

vendredi 28 juillet 2017 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Congress to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.