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Failure to pay

Firms ‘named and shamed’ for breaching wage laws

Dunkeld House Hotel
On the list: Dunkeld House Hotel (pic: Terry Murden) A Perthshire hotel, John Lewis Partnership and a holiday venue are among 191 companies “named and shamed” today by the UKRead More

Letter from Ibrox

Rangers demand answers on Cinch sponsorship deal

Cinch-SPFL-sponsorship
The title sponsorship deal is the biggest signed by the SPFL Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson has asked SPFL chief Neil Doncaster to explain why a sponsorship agreement was signedRead More

Message to firms

Financial institutions urged to invest in UK recovery

Standard Life house
Financial institutions are encouraged to help the recovery (pic: Terry Murden) UK pension schemes are again being urged to divert billions of pounds of savers’ funds into backing the UK’sRead More

Government support

£2m boost for tidal turbine manufacturing project

Simon Forrest
Simon Forrest: industrial footing Tidal energy firm Nova Innovation has been awarded a £2 million cash injection from the Scottish Government to take turbine manufacturing to a global level. TheRead More

Travel changes

More countries added to quarantine-free list

Berliner Dom
Germany is now on the green list Travel options have been eased further with seven countries being added to the green list from 4am on Sunday. Austria, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Romania,Read More

Labour on attack

75,000 green jobs lost due to failed policies, says Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer iin Edinburgh
Sir Keir Starmer: country going backwards (pic: Terry Murden) Labour leader Keir Starmer says Britain is failing to build a green economy with more than 75,000 job losses in theRead More

Mixed messages

Swinney told to ‘lie down’ amid vertical drinking row

John Swinney
John Swinney has been accused of misleading the public (pic: Terry Murden) Drinkers will be allowed to stand at bars in Scotland after the Scottish government’s latest u-turn on so-calledRead More

Government accused

Visitor bodies quit working group on short term lets

Door entry system
New rules around short term lets have been raised concerns Several tourism organisations have resigned from the Scottish Government’s Working Group on short-term lets, claiming that it has failed toRead More

Customer services

Call centre Kura to hire 100 after securing new client

Brian Bannatyne
Brian Bannatyne Kura, a customer service outsourcing business, is creating 100 roles in its Glasgow office after securing a contract from an undisclosed financial services firm. The company currently employsRead More

Enterprise

University marks new milestone in startups

Collin Powers
Perfect match: (from left): Peter Mathieson, Dr George Baxter, CEO of Edinburgh Innovations; Collin Powers; and Lorna Baird Edinburgh University students and recent graduates have launched 100 startup companies inRead More