BUSINESS LIVE: CBI warns of staff shortages | FTSE slips

BUSINESS CLOSE: CBI warns of staff shortages hitting competitiveness; ‘No decision’ on break-up, says SSE; Tech sector raises £13.5bn; Home prices spike in South West; Gas crunch bites By This Is Money Published: 03:06 EDT, 20 September 2021 | Updated: 18:02 EDT, 20 September 2021 The FTSE 100 closed down 0.79 per cent, or 55.2 … Read more

Airport border officials staff are ‘redeployed to the Channel’ to help with migrant crisis

Border officers are being pulled out of airports and relocated to the English Channel to help deal with record numbers in migrants arriving in Britain, it has been reported. Agents from Border Force are having to leave positions at some of the busiest border gates in the UK for Kent, where more staff are needed … Read more

Government announces 16 sectors where double-vaccinated key staff WON’T have to isolate if pinged

‘Critical workers’ will be exempt from pingdemic: Government announces 16 sectors from transport to police and food suppliers where key staff WON’T have to isolate – but ignores business pleas that app is crippling recovery By Katie Weston For Mailonline Published: 16:12 EDT, 22 July 2021 | Updated: 16:18 EDT, 22 July 2021 The Government … Read more

Bridgepoint staff scoop £2.5bn windfall as share price surges

Bridgepoint staff scoop a £2.5bn windfall: Private equity firm’s share price surges following its blockbuster stock market debut By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 17:01 EDT, 21 July 2021 | Updated: 17:01 EDT, 21 July 2021 Staff and partners at private equity firm Bridgepoint are sitting on a windfall of £2.5billion following its … Read more

Lanarkshire wildlife park staff launch urgent hunt for fugitive wallaby escaped from enclosure

Where’s WALLABY? Wildlife park staff launch urgent hunt for fugitive Aussie animal that burst free from enclosure By Joseph Laws For Mailonline Published: 19:19 BST, 16 July 2021 | Updated: 19:51 BST, 16 July 2021 A search has been launched for an 11-month old runaway wallaby that escaped from an amusement park. The creature, who … Read more

Wildlife park staff launch urgent hunt for fugitive Aussie animal that burst free from enclosure

Where’s WALLABY? Wildlife park staff launch urgent hunt for fugitive Aussie animal that burst free from enclosure By Joseph Laws For Mailonline Published: 19:19 BST, 16 July 2021 | Updated: 19:19 BST, 16 July 2021 A search has been launched for an 11-month old runaway wallaby that escaped from an amusement park. The creature, who … Read more

FDA seeks probe into communications between staff and Biogen over Alzheimer’s drug

BREAKING NEWS: FDA seeks probe into communications between its staff and Biogen after controversial approval of Alzheimer’s drug FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock has asked for a probe into her staff’s communications with Biogen Biogen’s Aduhelm received FDA approval for Alzhiemer’s disease in early June despite limited data that it worked in clinical trials   By Mansur Shaheen … Read more

No 10 won’t order work from home staff back to the office after July 19

No 10 won’t order work from home staff back to the office after Boris Johnson ditches advice to log in remotely on July 19 ‘Work from home if you can’ rule to be scrapped when lockdown restrictions lift Ministers will not launch a campaign to encourages workers to go back to offices Senior Torys have … Read more

Chinese staff at Canon can only enter offices if they are SMILING after AI cameras were installed

Staff at Canon’s Beijing offices can only enter if they are SMILING after AI cameras were installed to ensure workers were ‘positive’ Employees must also smile if they want to book conference rooms for meetings The ‘smile recognition’ technology was installed by Canon Information Technology, the Chinese subsidiary of Canon, in their Beijing office The … Read more