Chancellor Rishi Sunak ‘will stop firms furloughing more staff from August’ as Government looks to flexible working to get Britain ‘back up and running’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak expected to announces changes to job retention scheme Firms could be banned from furloughing anymore workers at end of July Companies also expected to pay NI contributions and … Read more
A person infected with coronavirus can pass it on just by talking to someone in a closed environment such as a tube train or small office, simulations reveal. In a simulation of tube travel, produced by software firm MSC, one infected person can be seen literally coating other passengers with COVID-19 – just by talking. … Read more
Windsor Castle staff tending to the Queen in ‘HMS Bubble’ are forced to spend a week in isolation and pass a coronavirus test before each three-week shift begins. The monarch, 94, went into self-isolation at the Berkshire estate nine weeks ago alongside her husband Prince Philip, 98, who moved from Sandringham amid the pandemic. They are joined … Read more
Broadcasters have detailed how they’re gearing up to restart the UK’s TV industry once the coronavirus lockdown is lifted. In a 15-page plan, networks such as Sky, the BBC, ITV, ITN, Channel 4 and Channel 5, have explained how they’ll get the cameras rolling in the near future, with sets enforcing rules such as bringing your own cutlery … Read more
M&S boss warns staff on Ocado deal: ‘We need to get it right for customers from launch’ By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 22:31 BST, 23 May 2020 The executive at the centre of Marks & Spencer’s biggest strategic gamble for decades has written to … Read more
Fears of huge job cuts at GKN as aerospace giant pays staff to quit GKN asked staff at two of its aerospace factories to take voluntary redundancy Aerospace manufacturers are grappling with a slump in demand in civil aviation Last week, Rolls-Royce announced plans to slash 9,000 jobs By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail … Read more
Millionaire Steve Coogan faces further fury as it emerges his TV production company furloughed NINE staff – after he also used taxpayer scheme for his gardener and housekeeper Seven full-time employees and two temporary staff have been furloughed Baby Cow Productions is behind hit shows including Gavin and Stacey Coogan, the firm’s founder, owns 25% … Read more
The future of shopping: Masked staff man the doors at Fortnum and Mason as world-famous department store reopens its food halls The company reopened its London headquarters’ ground floor on Thursday It opened from 11am to 7pm and in-store bars and restaurants were shut Fortnum plans to open the first floor on May 28 its … Read more
Employers will have to pay 25 per cent of their furloughed staff’s wages from August under plans set to be announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak. Mr Sunak last week extended the government’s coronavirus furlough scheme – in which the government covers 80 per cent of wages of workers’ wages up to a ceiling of £2,500 … Read more
‘I’ve never been happier’: George Osborne, 49, reveals he is dating former chief of staff who oversaw his image make-over as Chancellor and is now communications chief at Deliveroo Mr Osborne revealed he is in a relationship with Thea Rodgers He said he had entered into a relationship with Ms Rodgers ‘within the past year’ … Read more