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About 60% of employees reported being subject to some form of technological surveillance and monitoring at their current or most recent job (Picture: Unsplash) Asking employees to constantly keep their webcams on while remote working, could constitute a human rights violation in the Netherlands. The ruling comes after an American software company fired a Dutch employee working remotely for refusing to keep his webcam on for ‘8 hours per day’.  The employee took the company to court in his home country for unfair dismissal. The Dutch court ruled in his favour saying that ‘tracking via camera for 8 hours per day is…

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​Steven Craig is accused of murdering Jacqueline Kirk, who died two decades after his attackA woman whose partner doused her with petrol and set her on fire died more than two decades after the attack partly as a result of the terrible scarring she suffered, a murder jury has been told.Steven Craig, 58, is accused of the murder of Jacqueline Kirk, who died in hospital in Bath 21 years after he set her alight in a car park in the Somerset seaside town of Weston-super-Mare. Continue reading… 

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Being savvy with your bank accounts can earn you money (Picture: Getty Images) Rising base rates spell bad news for those with mortgages, and other borrowing could get more expensive, too. But there is a silver lining. Since these hikes will also make the banks more money, many are also hiking incentives for banking and saving with them. There have been some big offers from banks in the last week so I’m dedicating this week’s column to my best buys. Combining these could earn you a few hundred quid in the run-up to Christmas, and more next year, so don’t…

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​Central Saint Martins, part of UAL, says it ‘isn’t able to facilitate access for children and babies on a regular basis’A woman has been told she cannot breastfeed her baby on campus at one of the world’s most prestigious arts schools.Jasmijn Toffano, a student at Central Saint Martins, was initially led to believe there would be no problem bringing her newborn daughter to classes, but said the college reversed that days before she was due to start her course, leaving her struggling to find childcare and to fulfil her course obligations. Continue reading… 

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