{"id":743194,"date":"2026-02-05T04:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/743194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:07:31","slug":"top-ft-stories-brexit-worker-protections-and-megamergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/743194\/","title":{"rendered":"Top FT Stories: Brexit, Worker Protections, and Megamergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times presents several high-stakes stories today. The UK is being cautioned against hastily securing a Brexit deal with Brussels, which could result in significant costs for British farmers and food producers.<\/p>\n<p>Worker protections in the UK face delays, with the government opting to soften the &#8216;fire and rehire&#8217; practices, aiming to ease the burden on employers, as revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of a major deadline, Rio Tinto and Glencore are grappling with significant differences that threaten their $260 billion merger talks. Meanwhile, Shell is gearing up to increase CEO Wael Sawan&#8217;s pay by \u00a34.6 million, through one of the FTSE 100&#8217;s most lucrative incentive plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Financial Times presents several high-stakes stories today. The UK is being cautioned against hastily securing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,54617,219839,2000,299,5187,1699,29861,219841,219838,4884,219840,132578,73442,16,15,219837],"class_list":{"0":"post-743194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-british-farmers","11":"tag-ceo-wael-sawan","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-financial-times","17":"tag-fire-and-rehire","18":"tag-glencore-rio-tinto-merger","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-megamerger","21":"tag-pay-rise","22":"tag-shell","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-worker-protections"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116016057095517634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}