Tag: United Kingdom

These are the football clubs that have been fined for underpaying employees

Birmingham City FC has been fined for breaking national minimum wage laws, newly released data reveals. The local club is part of a group of four that have been identified in the latest analysis by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The three others are St Helens RFC, Stoke City FC and Yeovil Town FC.

But the local city club and St. Helens RFC are by far the biggest offenders, owing each to their minimum wage employees more than £5,500.

Read more here and see how clubs reacted.

In the UK, data journalism and investigations are getting more local

I was fortunate enough to attend Data Journalism UK 2017, the event’s second edition. The conference was held at the BBC in Birmingham.

Among other things, a significant insight was that data and investigative journalism are now much more interested in local stories than ever before. Typically, ground-breaking investigations and data stories are developed with the national or regional picture in mind.

But recent initiatives like the BBC’s Local News Partnerships, the Bureau Local and Urbs Media are set to broaden investigations and data scrutiny to local governments and organisations.

See how by reading this article ➡️ https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/in-the-uk-data-journalism-and-investigations-are-getting-more-local-than-ever/s2/a714339/