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Plans for shared banking hub in Moray after last branch closes

A SCOTTISH minister has welcomed plans for a shared banking hub in Forres following the recent closure of the last bank branch in town.

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Unemployment rate in Scotland drops to joint record low

THE unemployment rate in Scotland has dropped by 1.1 percentage points across the past year, figures have shown.

The National (Scotland)

New programmes launched to help Renfrewshire residents get back into work

Councillor Andy Steel announced that the project will be used to break down barriers and boost recovery from the pandemic

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Scottish Government 'utterly deprecates' No 10 treatment of trade unions, says minister

PLANS from the UK Government to allow employers to replace striking workers with agency staff shows a “hasty and hostile approach to industrial…

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Tory plan to change agency staff rules a ‘hasty and hostile approach’ to trade unions

PLANS from the UK Government to allow employers to replace striking workers with agency staff shows a “hasty and hostile approach to industrial…

The National (Scotland)

Scots councils will bid for £800m 'levelling up' fund launched by Tories

Other projects directly funded by the UK Government include £219,096 to finance a community buy-out of The Old Forge pub – the most remote bar in Britain.

Daily Record

Employment Minister urges Scots to be 'sensible' over pay

He warned that if people 'take wrong decisions we could end up with a recession'

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Minister ‘hopes’ rail strikes will not continue into summer

Minister Richard Lochhead has not ruled out the possibility that disruptions surrounding the ScotRail pay dispute could continue into summer and…

The National (Scotland)

Minister urges workers to consider recession risk when asking for pay rise

A SCOTTISH minister has urged workers to consider the risk of a recession when asking for pay rises.

The National (Scotland)

SNP Minister mocked for maintaining government cannot intervene in rail dispute as 700 services are cancelled

Richard Lochhead insisted that the government could take no part in the pay dispute in the state-owned train service that is resulting in services being cut across Scotland

Daily Record

Scotland's unemployment rate drops to record low, new figures show

SCOTLAND’S unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest level on record, new figures show.

The National (Scotland)

Tory government drops plans for more post-Brexit import checks

THE UK Government has dropped plans to impose further checks on goods entering the UK from the European Union.

The National (Scotland)

Scotland set ‘to lose millions because of UK Government EU replacement fund’

Employment Minister accuses Westminster of reneging on its promise to replace lost EU funding in full

Insider UK

Scotland’s unemployment remains near same rate as previous quarter, figures show

Employment Minister Richard Lochhead said ‘early estimates’ show there were 2.4 million payrolled employees in the country in January 2022.

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More Scots now in employment than before Covid pandemic, figures show

The latest unemployment data has been released by the Office for National Statistics.

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