by mujair | Aug 6, 2020 | Business & Finance News
MANCHESTER, England — As a national lockdown was imposed in March, a food deliverer, Hanna Scaife, watched her weekly hours plummet from 30, to five, then zero as restaurants across Teesside, in northeast England, shut their doors. Business hasn’t gotten much better...
by mujair | Jul 23, 2020 | Business & Finance News
Here’s what you need to know: In Washington, D.C., the office for local residents’ unemployment claims is mostly working remotely. Credit…Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images For 17 straight weeks, the U.S. government has reported that more than one...
by mujair | Jul 14, 2020 | Business & Finance News
Many retailers across the United States have quietly stopped providing their workers with the pay raises they had dispensed at the start of the pandemic, despite surging virus numbers in many states. The companies’ rationale for cutting back on this so-called hero pay...
by mujair | Jul 4, 2020 | Business & Finance News
LONDON — In the southeast corner of Ireland, Brian Byrne’s event-planning business was confronting a calamity. It was the middle of March, and the coronavirus pandemic was nearing peak lethality. As the government barred gatherings like music festivals, his revenue...
by mujair | Jun 27, 2020 | Business & Finance News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Four thousand phone calls. To be more specific, Paul and Julia Cox figure they called the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity 4,480 times between April 19, when Walt Disney World furloughed them, and June 7, when glitches with their state and...
