H&M has been fined 35 million euros ($41.1 million) by a German watchdog after monitoring “several hundred employees” at its service center in Nuremberg, Germany. This is the second-largest fine levied against a single company over data breaches after the EU introduced new General Data Protection Regulation laws in 2018. […]

Greggs worker Staff at around half of Greggs’ stores will have to accept fewer hours or face losing their jobs as the government’s furlough scheme comes to an end. The bakery chain, which employs 25,000 workers, expects business activity to “remain below normal for the foreseeable future”. Chief executive Roger […]

Staff working from home for fashion retailer Next have been “stultified” by boring online presentations and missed out on office camaraderie, the company said. Next said that overall, the impact of the pandemic on business had been “expensive and miserable”. But it had also seen some advantages from the upheaval, […]

Losing altitude: Virgin Atlantic is cutting back its flights (Matt Carter) UK travellers will have far fewer flights to choose from in the coming months and years, airline bosses have warned. Shay Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, told the BBC’s Today programme that his airline plans to fly only […]

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Heathrow will trial testing for 2000 employees – HENRY NICHOLLS Heathrow is embarking on a month-long trial of rapid Covid testing for airport staff, in partnership with NHS Test & Trace. The airport will regularly test around 2000 employees in a bid to uncover asymptomatic carriers of the virus. The […]

Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email The pandemic has hammered the hotel industry right from the start. Marriott International, for example, furloughed “tens of thousands” of workers back in March as it shuttered properties around the world. Now, Marriott is permanently laying off 850 workers at its Marquis hotel […]

We will particularly miss the mass mid-morning gatherings, where we watched the opening of an amazing 8 sq ft advent calendar. The daily ritual, performed by Santa Claus assisted by five elves, involved drawing out the name of a lucky colleague, who opened a window to reveal their valuable prize. […]

More University of California, Davis students and employees who don’t have coronavirus symptoms can now get tested after a rapid saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by UC Davis was officially validated, campus officials said. About 6,000 more students, faculty and staff members have been invited by email to schedule their first […]