we start in the uk where already this week deals have been done to increase pay for workers at british airways, aldi and uber. aldi is raising the pay of thousands of distribution centre staff by 9% as competition for workers climbs post pandemic with more and more of us ordering our groceries online. british airways check in staff have agreed to a pay settlement that their union says amounts to a 13% pay rise, and uber agreed to raise fares in the uk to boost earnings for its drivers. the rising cost of living and forecasts for soaring winter energy bills, along with a severe labour shortage in some industries is a recipe for higher pay, something the bank of england warned against as it could hamper its fight against inflation. the latest unemployment figures for the uk are out in a few hours time. kate shoesmith is deputy chief executive of the recruitment and employment confederation. good morning. the employment numbers coming out forward june, what will they tell us? w
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israel insists there s a hamas command centre at the site, but hasn t yet provided conclusive evidence. mr netanyahu also said there were strong indications that hostages had been moved from the hospital. first of all, we had concrete evidence that there were terrorist chieftains and terrorists, their terrorist minions, in the hospital. and, in fact, they fled. as our forces approached, they fled. that s why we had no firefight. we entered that hospital with arabic speaking israeli doctors, with incubators. and we had no firefight. but hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield. and on level minus two, we found a command and control centre, military communications, coded equipment. we found bombs. we found weapons. and we also found terror tunnels in the hospital compound. earlier, israeli forces say they have recovered the body of a woman taken hostage by hamas last month in a building near al shifa hospital. she has been named as 65 year old yehudit wei
kate shoesmith is deputy chief executive of the recruitment and employment confederation. good morning. the employment numbers coming out forward june, what will they tell us? what we are expecting to see is a pretty steady stint based on the data we collect, tracking data of recruiters about their hiring activities over the last month, it was really solid data. we saw permanent placements were up ticking, we saw temporary billings going up. a steady pace, not as rapid as we saw when it first came out of locked down in 2021. and vacancy data is still at a real high, the highest vacancy data we saw this year was last week ofjuly when we had one point a 5 millionjob vacancies. ofjuly when we had one point a 5 million job vacancies. a ofjuly when we had one point a 5 millionjob vacancies. a ploy are definitely looking to hire right now. you can see, can t you, whether pressure points are. we measured the airline