Global workwear & PPE market expected to touch $92 billion by 2025 The Professional Clothing Industry Association Worldwide (PCIAW) is a trade body that facilitates collaboration and encourages peer-to-peer support with events that offer business connections to its members. Chief executive officer (CEO)
Yvette Ashby discusses the major events that stormed the professional clothing industry in 2020, how the association helped members tide through it, and how it is now helping members to navigate the complexity of new trading rules after Brexit. How was 2020 a different year for people in the professional clothing industry?
2020 was a dramatic, unprecedented and turbulent year for the professional clothing industry. Personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturers worked tirelessly to try and keep up with an unprecedented global demand for face masks, gloves and gowns, while corporate wear
Only 17% of victims involved in the Windrush scandal have received compensation as figures show £2.9m has been paid out to 300 people.
Official figures show the Home Office has received some 1,761 claims as of the end of December, with £2,869,068.16 paid out to 303 people.
The scandal, brought about in 2012 by the Government s hostile environment policy, saw migrants who arrived from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1973 wrongly deported, detained or stripped of their homes and jobs.
The Home Office has faced criticism for its response to the Windrush scandal, with Home Secretary Priti Patel last month pledging to overhaul the current system amid claims it was complicated and onerous
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Britain s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during his first Prime Minister s Questions, in the House of Commons in London
The United Kingdom saved itself from a potentially major diplomatic row with India after it took a Khalistani supporter off the list of House of Lords members in the last minute. Dabinderjit Singh Sidhu, who is a principal adviser to the Sikh Federation UK, was proposed as one of the nominees by the Labour party for peerage for life to the House of Lords Appointments Commission, but when the list of âPolitical Peeragesâ was released by Downing Street, his name was missing, The Hindustan Times reported.Â