Wetherspoons boss forced into U-turn after telling staff to go and get a job at Tesco because he couldn’t afford to pay them By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 25 March 2020 Wetherspoons was forced into an embarrassing U-turn over staff pay after close … Read more
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley pressured by MPs over factory worker’s safety By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 25 March 2020 Sports Direct has been pressured by MPs to explain what it is doing to protect its workers from coronavirus. Mike Ashley, boss of … Read more
A 40-year-old tech boss has told how he watched helplessly as two patients died in front of him as he fought coronavirus in intensive care. Jozef Wallis, a fit and healthy father-of-two, began feeling ill after a night out in the pubs around London Bridge station two weeks ago. Despite suffering a raging fever and … Read more
Piers Morgan has promised to pay parking tickets for NHS workers as it emerges medics are being fined at hospital car parks during the coronavirus crisis. Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, Mr Morgan asked why traffic wardens – who he said were ‘top of [his] list’ for non-essential workers – are operating when the … Read more
Will Butler-Adams, the boss of Brompton Bikes, is doing his best to help key NHS staff get to work without having to ride on crowded public transport. The 46-year-old engineer has offered 200 bikes to NHS key workers in the capital through an existing hire scheme, free of charge for 30 days, with a nominal … Read more
Fury at Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin and Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley over their reaction to coronavirus lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 01:21 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 01:21 GMT, 25 March 2020 Two of Britain’s best known bosses have caused uproar over their reaction to the coronavirus lockdown. Tim Martin, … Read more
Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has told his 40,000 staff to work at Tesco during the coronavirus lockdown, after furious workers revealed they wouldn’t be getting their salaries until the end of April The popular pub chain was forced to close after Boris Johnson ordered people to stay at home in the battle against the killer … Read more
The boss of Britain’s largest retailer has pleaded with panicbuyers to search their conscience and ask themselves: ‘Do I need everything in my trolley?’ Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis called for calm as store shelves were yesterday stripped bare again and massive queues formed outside stores across the UK. Pleading with shoppers to pause for … Read more
Tesco’s chief executive Dave Lewis It’s been a tough week for the whole country. No one is untouched. No one immune to challenges we face as a country. Covid-19 is bringing huge changes to the way we live and work. Sadly, we are closer to the beginning of all this than the end, but it’s … Read more
The government today scolded ‘shameful’ panic-buyers and pleaded with the frenzied shoppers to consider more vulnerable people before emptying the nation’s supermarkets. The coronavirus death toll in the UK has hit 233 as a further 53 people died in England alone in the worst 24 hours yet. Environment Secretary George Eustice told people to ‘calm … Read more