Judges have ruled that severe hair loss in women constitutes a disability that impacts daily activities. The landmark decision arose from a £277,000 VAT dispute involving Mark Glenn Ltd, which sells wigs for women with hair loss. The Upper Tribunal judges, Swami Raghavan and Kevin Poole, said: “Severe hair loss in women constitutes an impairment…

Metro Bank has launched the third round of redundancies in as many years, putting about 100 jobs at risk. “We regularly review our operations as we invest in growth areas, deliver our strategy and enhance our proposition for customers,” Metro Bank said in a statement.

A survey by online jobs portal Adzuna has found that UK vacancies fell from 745,448 in November to 716,791 last month, a 15% reduction compared with a year earlier, and the weakest full year since 2020. “Competition for roles intensified and hiring slowed across many of the UK’s largest sectors as the usual year-end uplift…

Michael Tam, chief brand officer at leading Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech, has told the Financial Times that its latest machines are at most half as efficient as human workers.

Morrisons has told staff it cannot offer significant pay rises this year, citing higher employer taxes, a 6.7% increase in the national living wage, and competitive pressures, despite investing over £100m in staff pay last year. The supermarket is in a pay dispute with Usdaw, which represents 45,000 employees, after refusing to increase wages above…

Eightfold, an artificial intelligence ?hiring ?platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many ?other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued for allegedly scoring job candidates without their knowledge. The lawsuit filed in California was brought by job seekers Erin Kistler and Sruti Bhaumik, who claim Eightfold compiles detailed talent profiles, including personality descriptions and “fit scores”…