Friday newspaper round-up: Workers' rights, Wimbledon, Glencore execs

20th Sep 2024 07:10

(Sharecast News) - Trade union leaders will meet senior ministers on Saturday for crunch talks on the government's workers' rights package, as the government looks to head off a potentially damaging row at Labour conference. General secretaries from the 11 unions affiliated to Labour will meet Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, and Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, on the eve of conference to thrash out details of the package, sources have told the Guardian. - Guardian

It appears to be game, set and match for the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) in its lengthy battle to build 39 new courts on Wimbledon Park after the Greater London Authority recommended that the project should be approved. The proposals have been deeply controversial, with local residents warning of 10 years of disruption as well as the creation of a huge "tennis industrial complex" that would lie silent for much of the year. However, officers at the GLA recommended on Thursday that the deputy mayor should grant conditional planning permission at a public hearing on Friday 27 September. - Guardian

A US energy giant has chosen South Yorkshire to host a landmark £1.5bn factory building the next generation of nuclear reactors in a major boost for the region. Holtec, a privately owned nuclear company headquartered in Florida, is looking at sites across the county including around the city of Doncaster, where Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has his constituency. - Telegraph

Angela Rayner is facing a European court battle with private equity baron Guy Hands over military housing owned by the financier. Mr Hands's Annington Homes, which is owned through his private equity firm, Terra Firma, has filed a legal claim against the Housing Secretary with the European Court of Human Rights. The case centres on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act, which was introduced by the previous government in May but which now falls under Ms Rayner's brief. - Telegraph

A senior judge has lifted orders that prevented the naming of five former Glencore executives who investigators have linked to a long-running bribery case. Officials at the Serious Fraud Office had applied for orders originally to protect their investigations into alleged offences by individual executives after the FTSE 100 mining company pleaded guilty two years ago to a corporate charge of paying about £22 million in bribes. - The Times

Journalists at Guardian Media Group have revolted against a planned sale of The Observer over concerns that it could harm the financial security of staff members. Members of the National Union of Journalists have voted in favour of a motion criticising the "flawed analysis" behind a decision to offload the Sunday title to Tortoise Media. - The Times