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The government has rejected a report that following Brexit, it plans to tear up employment protections based in EU law – a strategy that Labour has called “a disgrace”. Proposals include an end to the 48-hour maximum working week, changes to rules about breaks at work, and removing overtime pay when calculating certain holiday pay entitlements, the Financial Times said. Another proposal would be to get rid of the current requirement for businesses to log information about daily working hours, to save on administration costs. The package is being drawn up within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the newspaper…

Thousands of businesses should be covered by their insurance for losses caused by coronavirus lockdowns, the UK Supreme Court ruled on Friday, in a test case that pitched the industry regulator against major insurance companies. Small businesses, from restaurants to nightclubs and wedding planners to beauty parlours, have said they faced ruin after attempts to claim compensation for business losses during the pandemic were rejected by insurers. Six of the world’s largest commercial insurers — Hiscox, RSA, QBE, Argenta, Arch and MS Amlin — said many business interruption policies did not cover widespread disruption after Britain’s first national lockdown last…

Amazon.com Inc was slapped with a class-action lawsuit on Thursday accusing the e-commerce giant of inflating the prices of ebooks in collusion with some publishers. The lawsuit alleges that Amazon and the five largest U.S. publishers, collectively called the ‘Big Five’, agreed to price restraints that cause consumers to overpay for eBooks purchased from them through a retail platform other than Amazon.com. The lawsuit comes a day after Connecticut said it was investigating Amazon for potential anti-competitive behavior in its business selling digital books. Amazon declined to comment. About 90% of eBooks are sold through Amazon, the largest U.S. eBooks…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Wednesday that the Senate lacks constitutional authority to conduct impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump once he leaves office. “The Senate lacks constitutional authority to conduct impeachment proceedings against a former president. The Founders designed the impeachment process as a way to remove officeholders from public office—not an inquest against private citizens,” Cotton said in a statement. Cotton said in his statement that he will oppose another Senate impeachment trial after Democrats in the House of Representatives, joined by 10 Republicans, voted earlier to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a 232-197 vote. 197 other House Republicans voted against…

Primark-owner AB Foods warned that the loss of sales from store closures could rise to over 1.5 billion pounds ($1.36 billion) if current lockdowns last until the end of March, but the group is confident of strong growth upon reopening. Unlike most rival retailers, which continue to trade online during lockdowns, Primark does not have an online shop meaning lockdowns in its main UK market and elsewhere in Europe have halted sales as 76% of its retail selling space is shut. AB Foods said in a statement that if all those stores stayed shut until Feb. 27, then the loss…

WhatsApp is battling mistrust globally after it updated its privacy policy to let it share some user data with parent Facebook and other group firms, and the backlash risks thwarting its ambitions in its biggest market, India. Though WhatsApp has yet to see mass uninstalls of its app in India, users concerned about privacy are increasingly downloading rival apps such as Signal and Telegram, research firms say, propelling them higher on the download charts and putting those apps ahead of their ubiquitous rival in India for the first time. The reaction in India – where 400 million users exchange more…

Parler is being held to a different standard than Twitter and Facebook, its CEO told The Epoch Times. “The standards that we’re held to are higher than that of Facebook and Twitter. And that is wrong, because that is giving preferential treatment to some clients and some customers and not others. And then abruptly terminating us with what I would call bad faith, and doing it so quickly, that there’s no possible way to remedy and doing it in a way so publicly that it tarnishes our brand, and it doesn’t allow us to get anywhere else,” John Matze told The Epoch Times’…

President Donald Trump signed an order late Wednesday requiring U.S. investors to completely divest their holdings of securities of Pentagon-blacklisted Chinese military companies by Nov. 11, 2021. The amendment order expands the scope of the initial November executive order (E.O.) 13959, which initially only restricted U.S. investors from buying securities of companies designated by the Pentagon as owned or controlled by the Chinese military by Nov, 11, 2021. “[A]ny transaction entered into on or before 11:59 p.m. eastern standard time on November 11, 2021, solely to divest, in whole or in part, from securities that any United States person held as of 9:30 a.m. eastern standard time…

Private messaging application Signal hit the top of both Apple and Google app stores after being installed 1.3 million times on Monday. The number of downloads was recorded by Apptopia, which tracks apps. The number was a new record for the app. Signal utilizes end-to-end encryption to keep conversations secure, according to the website of the nonprofit Signal Foundation, the app’s developer. “We can’t read your messages or listen to your calls, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode—it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time,” it says. High-profile users include Edward Snowden,…

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) came out Tuesday in opposition to the push to impeach President Donald Trump. “President Trump has eight days left in his term and has promised a smooth and peaceful transition of power. The Democrat-led impeachment talks happening in the House right now fly in direct opposition to what President-elect Joe Biden has been calling for all year,” Scott said in a statement. “An impeachment vote will only lead to more hate and a deeply fractured nation. I oppose impeaching President Trump.” Few Republican senators have weighed in for or against the impeachment. Several did say they don’t agree with the bid…