Jan
29
Parliamentary Correspondent Plans for a second coalition agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have been jettisoned as the parties struggle to sustain their existing reforms. Senior ministers had been working on a mid-term document – dubbed Coalition 2.0 – listing new policies to pursue from the end of this year until 2015. But …
Jan
28
BY MELANIE TROTTMAN Employers can’t require their employees to sign arbitration agreements that forbid the workers from collectively pursuing legal claims over issues such as pay and hours, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a decision likely to rile business groups. In a vote taken Tuesday but disclosed late Friday by the agency, the …