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New employment support service in Ayrshire gives Ukrainian refugees a helping hand to find employment

Scottish Government Minister Richard Lochhead. cut the ribbon on the new office, in Ayr’s Carrick Street, on Wednesday.

Daily Record

Scotland leading UK in green job creation, according to new report

SCOTLAND is leading the way in creating green jobs, according to a new report.

The National (Scotland)

Real living wage requirement for those seeking grant funding

Scottish Government introduces new rules for businesses, enterprise agencies and public bodies from next July

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Grants to only be given to organisations in Scotland paying real living wage

GRANTS will only be given to organisations in Scotland who pay the real living wage from next July under new requirements.

The National (Scotland)

UK Government 'must replace' lost EU funding for Scottish projects

Projects which have benefited from £72.5m of European Territorial Co-operation grants may be unable to continue

Insider UK

UK's anti-Europe stance threatens Scottish science schemes, SNP warn

SCOTLAND faces the risk of an innovation drought if Westminster ditches a European funding programme, a Government minister has warned.

The National (Scotland)

Record number of Scots being paid living wage, figures show

A RECORD number of Scots are being paid the real living wage, according to the latest figures.

The National (Scotland)

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Record number of women in work in Scotland, latest figures show

MORE women are in work in Scotland than ever before, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics ...

The National (Scotland)

'Just transition will have failed if Scots are in fuel poverty', minister says

THE “just transition” away from oil and gas will have failed if Scots are still living in fuel poverty in the years ahead, the Government…

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Government will continue its ‘fairer’ approach to tax, says minister

Richard Lochhead spoke out in the wake of Friday’s mini budget from the UK Government.

The Independent UK

Plans for shared banking hub in Moray after last branch closes

A SCOTTISH minister has welcomed plans for a shared banking hub in Forres following the recent closure of the last bank branch in town.

The National (Scotland)

Unemployment rate in Scotland drops to joint record low

THE unemployment rate in Scotland has dropped by 1.1 percentage points across the past year, figures have shown.

The National (Scotland)

New programmes launched to help Renfrewshire residents get back into work

Councillor Andy Steel announced that the project will be used to break down barriers and boost recovery from the pandemic

Daily Record

Scottish Government 'utterly deprecates' No 10 treatment of trade unions, says minister

PLANS from the UK Government to allow employers to replace striking workers with agency staff shows a “hasty and hostile approach to industrial…

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Tory plan to change agency staff rules a ‘hasty and hostile approach’ to trade unions

PLANS from the UK Government to allow employers to replace striking workers with agency staff shows a “hasty and hostile approach to industrial…

Daily Record

Scots councils will bid for £800m 'levelling up' fund launched by Tories

Other projects directly funded by the UK Government include £219,096 to finance a community buy-out of The Old Forge pub – the most remote bar in Britain.

Insider UK

Employment Minister urges Scots to be 'sensible' over pay

He warned that if people 'take wrong decisions we could end up with a recession'

The National (Scotland)

Minister ‘hopes’ rail strikes will not continue into summer

Minister Richard Lochhead has not ruled out the possibility that disruptions surrounding the ScotRail pay dispute could continue into summer and…

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Minister urges workers to consider recession risk when asking for pay rise

A SCOTTISH minister has urged workers to consider the risk of a recession when asking for pay rises.

Daily Record

SNP Minister mocked for maintaining government cannot intervene in rail dispute as 700 services are cancelled

Richard Lochhead insisted that the government could take no part in the pay dispute in the state-owned train service that is resulting in services being cut across Scotland

The National (Scotland)

Scotland's unemployment rate drops to record low, new figures show

SCOTLAND’S unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest level on record, new figures show.

The National (Scotland)

Tory government drops plans for more post-Brexit import checks

THE UK Government has dropped plans to impose further checks on goods entering the UK from the European Union.

Insider UK

Scotland set ‘to lose millions because of UK Government EU replacement fund’

Employment Minister accuses Westminster of reneging on its promise to replace lost EU funding in full

The Independent UK

Scotland’s unemployment remains near same rate as previous quarter, figures show

Employment Minister Richard Lochhead said ‘early estimates’ show there were 2.4 million payrolled employees in the country in January 2022.

The Independent UK

More Scots now in employment than before Covid pandemic, figures show

The latest unemployment data has been released by the Office for National Statistics.

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