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Dixons Carphone to cut 800 store management jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53650697 Image copyright Getty Images Dixons Carphone said it plans to cut 800 jobs as part of efforts to streamline its in-store management. The Currys PC World owner it was “not an easy decision” but the move would allow a “flatter management structure” as it adapts to rising online sales.......
Pizza Express may close 67 sites and cut 1,100 jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53635238 Image copyright Getty Images Pizza Express is considering closing 15% of its UK restaurants, which would mean the loss of 1,100 jobs. The chain is the latest High Street outlet to undertake a restructuring of its business after trading was halted by the coronavirus pandemic. It is poised to......
US Treasury should get cut of TikTok deal – Trump
Image copyright Reuters Donald Trump has said the US should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if it is bought by an American firm. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the......
Car dealer to close 15 branches and cut 1,800 jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53593376 Image copyright PA Media Image caption The car retail business has struggled during the coronavirus pandemic Car dealer Pendragon has said it will cut 1,800 jobs and shut 15 of its dealerships. The firm, based in Annesley, Nottinghamshire, runs the Evans Halshaw and Stratstone brands. It said a review......
Quest says FDA cleared new ‘lab method’ that will cut coronavirus testing delays
CNBC – For more and to sign up click here A Quest Diagnostics Inc. requisition form is displayed for a photograph at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coronavirus test manufacturer Quest Diagnostics announced Wednesday that the......
U.S. to Cut 12,000 Forces in Germany
New York Times – For more and to sign up click here The United States is cutting back its deployments in Germany by nearly 12,000 troops and shifting some of those forces around the continent, including relocating some units to Belgium and Italy, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper announced Wednesday.......
Double virus tests ‘could cut quarantine time’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53573404 Image copyright EPA People entering the UK from at-risk countries who test negative for coronavirus twice within several days might be allowed to leave quarantine early. The UK government is close to giving its backing to a trial, according to travel industry sources. Under current rules, those arriving in......
How two college sports programs, cut due to coronavirus impact, are trying to save each other
Clayton Almeida will never forget the phone call he received from his former teammate Gustavo Zanette one Friday morning in June. “Did you hear they’re going to cut the program?” Almeida was confused. Surely he wasn’t talking about the Winthrop University tennis teams, where he had played from 2002 to......
Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut.
ClassPass built its business on helping people book exercise classes at local gyms. So when the pandemic forced gyms across the United States to close, the company shifted to virtual classes. Then ClassPass received a concerning message from Apple. Because the classes it sold on its iPhone app were now......
BA faces strike threat over job cut plan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53564385 Image copyright EPA The head of the trade union Unite has warned British Airways that it plans to move towards industrial action against the airline “with immediate effect”. Unite and BA have been at loggerheads for several weeks. In April, BA’s parent company warned that it could cut up......
As Republicans Embrace Cut in Jobless Aid, Divisions Weaken Their Leverage
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and the White House on Monday threw their support behind a substantial cut in jobless aid for tens of millions of Americans laid off amid the pandemic, proposing a weekly reduction of $400 to a benefit that has cushioned the nation’s economy even as coronavirus cases......
Police try new high-tech devices to cut down on deadly force as clashes with protesters continue
CNBC – For more and to sign up click here Police try new, less-lethal tools as protests continue SEARCH QUOTES Source – Click here for more To Return to the Main Aggregate News Page – click here...
Episode cut from series two of His Dark Materials
Producers of fantasy TV drama His Dark Materials have said that one episode of the upcoming second series had to be cut due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking at the show’s Comic-Con@Home panel, they revealed that a planned standalone instalment was unable to be filmed during lockdown. The episode, focusing......
UK’s foreign aid spending cut by £2.9bn
Image copyright DFID/HM Government Image caption UK aid is distributed with the aim of protecting public health and alleviating global poverty Britain is to cut its global aid budget by £2.9bn this year due to the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, the government has announced. It said a review......
Who Has Already Been Cut From Season 16 of The Bachelorette? An Investigation – E! Online
Forty-two men entered, but 42 men did not stay. The first rose ceremony of the new quarantined season of The Bachelorette just took place on Sunday night, but contestants appear to have… E! Online – For more and to sign up click here To Return to the Main Aggregate News......
Texas school district to keep policy that forced two Black students to either cut their dreadlocks or leave school
CBS News – For more and to sign up click here A school district in Texas’ board of trustees has voted unanimously to keep a grooming policy that prevented two Black students from attending school unless they cut their dreadlocks, the ACLU announced Tuesday. The vote comes after the school......