The Chancellor hopes to boost pension pots by £11,000 and unlock billions more in investment with a review of retirement savings. With pension schemes expected to manage about £800 billion by 2030, the review will look at how they can be encouraged to invest in productive assets such as infrastructure.Continue Reading
NHS England has warned of “continued disruption” to GP services into next week from the global IT outage. A flawed update rolled out by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many offline around the world on Friday, causing flight and train cancellations and crippling some healthcare systems. A fix was deployed forContinue Reading
GPs and pharmacies have said that disruption from the global IT outage will continue over the weekend, amid warnings of travel delays after flight cancellations. A flawed update rolled out by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many offline around the world on Friday, causing flight and train cancellations and crippling someContinue Reading
The Government could need up to £10 billion to cover public sector pay increases if reports of a 5.5% rise prove true, an economist has warned. Independent pay review bodies are reported to be preparing to recommend such an increase for teachers and around 1.3 million NHS staff, according toContinue Reading
Flight delays and cancellations are among the disruption expected to continue into the weekend after a global IT outage, as experts warned it could take weeks for systems to fully recover. A flawed update rolled out by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked many offline around the world on Friday, causing flightContinue Reading
Thousands of airline passengers whose flights have been cancelled due to the global IT outage are being urged to leave crowded airports. Some 167 flights scheduled to depart UK airports have been axed, with others delayed, while 171 flights due to land in the UK were cancelled, following the technicalContinue Reading
The largest union in local government has said strike action will go ahead after rejecting a revised pay offer that “puts absolutely no more money on the table”. Unison accused Cosla, which represents all Scottish local authorities, of making an offer that does not truly benefit its council workers, whichContinue Reading
Cleaners, security guards and workers in Whitehall have suspended strike action planned for Monday after receiving an improved pay offer and other benefits. Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) employed by outsourcing giant ISS at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero were due to takeContinue Reading
The chief executive of CrowdStrike, the firm at the centre of the global IT outage, has said he is “deeply sorry” for the incident, but warned it would take “some time” for systems to be fully restored. George Kurtz said a fix had been deployed for a bug in anContinue Reading
Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike is “actively working” to fix a “defect” in an update for Microsoft Windows users which sparked a global IT outage, the company’s chief executive has said. CrowdStrike chief executive George Kurtz said Mac and Linux users were not impacted by the fault and it was “not aContinue Reading
