Naomi Campbell donates food parcels to Covid-19 workers at London hospital 

Naomi Campbell teams up with restaurateur to donate 600 food parcels to frontline Covid-19 workers at London hospital Supermodel Naomi Campbell, 50, grew up in Streatham, south-west London  She donated 600 pre-packaged food gifts to workers at St George’s Hospital  Campbell teamed up with restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani to prepare packages Model said she is giving … Read more

Zoom adds virtual receptionist feature where remote workers can do ‘office’ tasks at home

When the pandemic forced employees to work from home, Zoom emerged as the go-to teleconferencing app. Now as many are contemplating a return to their real-world offices, the company is updating its offerings to address a post-COVID future. This week, Zoom unveiled Kiosk Mode, part of its Zoom Rooms program for physical conference rooms, which … Read more

Four workers injured after an explosion at a storage facility near LA

Four workers suffered burn injuries after an explosion at a tractor trailer storage facility in Santa Clara on Tuesday evening.   Three workers were critically injured and hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns. The fourth walked himself to the hospital.    The blast in the Rye Canyon Loop sparked a wildfire that spread to one acre before … Read more

Trainee cemetery workers mistakenly dig practice plot at beauty spot 

That’s a grave insult! Trainee cemetery workers mistakenly dig practice plot at beauty spot Contractors dug a hole in the middle of a field of ‘irreplaceable ecological value’  Easthill Field, in Frome, Somerset is home to wildlife and endangered dormice Activists fighting to protect the field from developers were ‘intensely upset’   By Gregory Kirby For … Read more

BBC bosses pay out £2.3MILLION to workers in just three-and-a-half years, figures reveal

BBC bosses pay out £2.3MILLION to workers in just three-and-a-half years to stop them taking corporation to employment tribunals, figures reveal Fifty nine settlements were paid out to dissatisfied staff of the broadcaster From April 2019 to 2020, £932,764 was paid by the BBC to staff in settlements BBC said to be facing ‘a serious … Read more

HAMISH MCRAE: All workers are key to speed of Covid recovery

HAMISH MCRAE: With the swift roll-out of the vaccines and extensive testing, the UK is well positioned to escape its present straitjacket By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 30 January 2021 We have to get everyone back to work. This is not simply an … Read more

Kanye West faces two class-action lawsuits and $30 million in damages for ‘not paying workers’

Kanye West is facing two class-action lawsuits and could be hit with $30 million in damages over claims he mistreated and failed to pay up to 1,000 performers and backstage staff at his popular Sunday Service shows.    The lawsuits relate to around 500 performers and 300 backstage staff who worked at the 43-year-old rapper’s extravagant, … Read more

Workers start clearing plastic junk from Serbia’s ‘lake of trash’

A team of workers descended upon an artificial lake in Serbia today to clear the vast stretch of waste floating on its surface. Two barges sailed up and down the polluted waters to collect the thick layer of plastic and waste that had accumulated at the foot of the Lim River hydro-electric power plant on … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Hotel workers fear they will be at risk of catching Covid at quarantine sites

Hotel workers are afraid they will be at an increased risk of catching coronavirus from travellers arriving at quarantine sites across the UK, unions have warned. Unite want all hotels used to house travellers arriving in the UK to put proper safety measures in place and the union has encouraged its members to report and … Read more

NHS workers watching It’s a Sin recall horrifying ignorance faced by AIDS patients in the 80s

NHS and healthcare workers who cared for patients at the height of the AIDS crisis in the UK in the 80s have been sharing their stories following the release of Russell T Davies Channel 4 drama It’s a Sin.  The first episode of the five-part series, which follows the lives of a group of gay … Read more