As the United Kingdom experiences its second day of rail disputes inside a week, the government has this morning unveiled plans to allow employment agencies to supply skilled agency workers to plug staff gaps during industrial action. Current trade union laws prohibit firms from supplying temporary agency workers to fill duties by employees engaged in…
Andy Burnham has warned the government that its Integrated Rail Plan ‘isn’t as good as it can be’, warning the north could come out “second best” under the current proposals. The mayor of Greater Manchester stressed the plan was a “once in 200-year decision for the country”. The transport committee was holding its first evidence…
From Monday 17 January 2022, South Western Railway (SWR) will be introducing a new timetable, which is designed to ensure reliability for customers and cater to key workers, school pupils… The post South Western Railway introduces a new temporary timetable in response to spread of Omicron variant appeared first on London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com.
Grant Shapps faced discontent in the Commons over the government’s plans to scrap the eastern leg of HS2 between Leeds and the East Midlands. Announcing £96 billion of new funding, the transport secretary said: “The HS2 track would not have reached the East Midlands and the North until the early 2040s.” Clearly, a rethink was…
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has officially confirmed that the eastern leg of HS2 planned between Leeds and the East Midlands, will be scrapped. He said the original plans “clearly needed a rethink”, having initially forecasted to have reached the East Midlands and North by the 2040s, and would not have served the East Midlands’ main…
