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How customers and workers can give business strategy a badly needed boost: Fresh faces. COVID forced companies around the world to urgently review their business models. Restaurants switched to selling groceries, passenger airlines moved cargo, and car manufacturers produced ventilators. The pandemic highlighted the importance of fresh thinking in the corporate world. Now the business …
Black Friday for Amazon workers: the human costs behind consumer convenience: Frederic Legrand – COMEO / Shutterstock With the holiday shopping season upon us, many people will be taking advantage of the low prices and speedy delivery promised by Amazon. The online retail giant is more popular than ever, and it is bringing on thousands …
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Making vaccination compulsory for NHS frontline workers likely to make patients suffer: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock The NHS has been struggling for years with chronic underfunding and staff shortages. COVID has only made matters worse. Health Secretary Sajid Javid is now warning that NHS waiting lists for non-emergency operations and procedures could grow to 13 million up from …
Young and ethnic minority workers were hardest hit at the start of COVID, but not anymore: Young workers have been quicker to adapt. Wayas Saeed/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Governments had to take unprecedented measures to control the spread of the COVID pandemic, shutting down whole sectors and encouraging many people to work from home. The UK …
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Community health workers can help South African women with perinatal depression: A woman with her baby collects her household goods in front of her newly built shack in Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Depression is defined by symptoms such as persistent sadness, low mood, sleep disturbances, low energy, and feelings of hopelessness. The …
How Zambian trade unions’ good intentions hurt workers: Zambia's mining industry is highly unionised but the unions are too weak to protect workers' interests. Getty Images In Zambia’s mining industry, wages and working conditions have consistently declined for 30 years. This is primarily because of changes to labour laws. Strikes have been banned, the subcontracting …
Ending coal use blighted Scottish communities – a just transition to a green economy must support workers: While walking on Glasgow Green in 1765, James Watt had a eureka moment that led to the development of a more efficient steam engine, making coal-powered industry and transport possible. In November, a city with a claim to …
Dental workers face particular risks: we designed a device to protect them: Oral healthcare workers are exposed to disease-causing organisms during dental procedures. Shutterstock Dentistry faces a relatively high risk of exposure to a wide variety of infectious diseases originating from viruses and bacteria present in people’s mouths. The COVID-19 pandemic (SARS-CoV-2) brought to the …
Why care workers are feeling less valued and leaving the sector after the pandemic: Inside Creative House / Shutterstock The care sector is struggling to recruit and retain staff, as England enters the next phase of its COVID-19 recovery. So why are care workers leaving the sector in droves, and what can be done to …
South Africa in the news: 24,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers in California authorize strike action by 96 percent: The vote is a major development in the growing push by workers for nationwide strike action in the United States against unbearable working hours, the erosion of wages by high inflation and against …: …
The end of furlough: Londoners and workers over 50 will be hardest hit – new research: Hardship will be more pronounced in the capital. Tom Parsons/Unsplash, CC BY-SA After 19 months of paying to help UK workers to stay in their jobs during the pandemic, the government furlough scheme finishes at the end of September. The …
Informal workers in Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso have been hit harder by COVID-19: Informal workers in West Africa have been hardest hit by covid-19 lockdowns Chris Kirchhoff/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated counter-measures continue to shed light on the social and economic challenges facing African countries. Economic growth in sub-Saharan …
Corruption in state-owned companies hurts low skilled workers the most: we show how: State-owned enterprises, such as Transnet, which runs South Africa's ports, loom large over the economy Getty Images State-owned enterprises are companies in which government owns, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the shares. Worldwide, states own 10% of the largest companies. …