Mar 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
On 17 March 2022, P&O Ferries management in the United Kingdom immediately dismissed 800 workers over Zoom. An apparent cost-saving move, the sacked seafarers were told over a pre-recorded video that their jobs would be replaced with cheaper agency labour....
Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
While International Women’s Day events now fill corporate calendars around the world, its origins in the global labour movement cannot be forgotten – it is a day to acknowledge that gendered oppression disproportionately affects women in all spheres of life, from the...
Feb 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
February 24, 2022 The company generates “income for its shareholders through real estate speculation on the land and construction of its own retirement homes,” says the report, which was commissioned by the Centre for Corporate Research and Tax...
Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
The story is now familiar, but it never ceases to shock. The COVID-19 pandemic brutally exposed the vulnerabilities and inequities at the heart of our society. Governments were required to take steps unheard of outside of wartime, pausing the functioning of large...
Oct 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) welcomes the publication of the Pandora Papers. This data leak provides yet more proof that the rich and powerful are able to use a complex system of offshore structures to avoid paying...
Sep 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
2020 was a year like no other. The Covid-19 health crisis, and the associated economic crisis, made the work that CICTAR does more urgent and relevant than ever. Despite the difficulties the year posed, CICTAR was able to make great progress in achieving the...