15 h. ago As Citi trims staff, senior equities people are leaving in London

As Citi trims staff, senior equities people are leaving in London  eFinancialCareers

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27 h. ago I loved being a principal, but Australia has grown complacent about the growing violence directed at educators | Andy Mison

School principals are resilient but, in an alarming number of cases, their job harms them. We would not tolerate these conditions in other workplacesI’ve been lucky. I’ve enjoyed a rewarding career in education, including almost 15 years as a principal in the Northern Territory and the ACT. I’ve worked with wonderful teachers and administrative staff, and shared in the successes of hundreds of young people and their families as they grow and graduate high school, going on to further study, employment and life adventures.I’ve also experienced verbal and physical abuse, aggression and violence from students and their carers, directed at me and my colleagues in the course of my work as a school leader. I once regarded these occasional events as part of the job, normal in our frontline occupation. I now think we have grown complacent about the levels of violence toward a predominantly female workforce that we would not tolerate in other workplaces. As the latest data from the Australian...

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58 h. ago Musk’s Doge gains access to federal payroll system despite staff warnings

Officials said accessing system that processes 276,000 employees’ salaries could put unit at risk of cyber-attacksMembers of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly gained access to a payroll system over the weekend that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across various government agencies, despite warnings from senior staff about the potential risks.According to two people familiar with the situation who spoke with the New York Times, Doge employees had spent about two weeks trying to obtain administrative access to the program, known as the Federal Personnel and Payroll System. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago B&Q staff are told saying 'blind drunk' is offensive to disabled people

A 30-page inclusive language guide issued by the DIY chain warns against using these phrases or any others that associate 'impairments with negative things'.

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4 d. ago The Signal chat exposes the administration’s incompetence – and its pecking order | Sidney Blumenthal

The discussion revealed unserious people who don’t know when to keep quiet, with Stephen Miller as the real bossOn 13 March, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who was the policy director for two secretaries of defense and was a member of the House intelligence committee, sent a message on the commercial Signal app: “Team – establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours.” “The Houthis PC small group” would oversee a US air attack on the Houthis in Yemen.Despite Waltz’s extensive professional background, he misspelled “principals” as “principles” – perhaps an ordinary typo, but symptomatic of the shambles to come. Although the secretaries of defense, state and treasury, the director of national intelligence, the CIA director, the vice-president, and the president’s chief of staff were among the 18 people included, neither the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, who is a statutory member of the principals comm...

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5 d. ago Buzzworks achieve Scottish first by landing 'monumental' UK pub company award

The Ayrshire-run firm were the toast of the Publican Awards in London last night.

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5 d. ago Traffic lights to be reset and utility firms charged to dig up roads in bid to speed

EXCLUSIVE: TfL’s plan to tackle chronic delays on capital’s bus network revealed

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6 d. ago 'Serious breakdown' in staff relationships put NHS patients at risk

The probe by Healthcare Improvement Scotland looked at emergency departments in three hospitals in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board, which serves a population of 1.2 million people and employs 44,000 staff.

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1 week ago Resist the ‘myths’ of New York, London Stock Exchange warns UK firms

Resist the ‘myths’ of New York, London Stock Exchange warns UK firms  The Times

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1 week ago Elite London law firm fined £465,000 for Russian sanctions breaches

Former Moscow office of Herbert Smith Freehills made six payments totalling £3.9m to sanctioned banksHerbert Smith Freehills, the elite global law firm based in London, has been fined by the British government after its former Moscow office made millions of pounds in payments to sanctioned Russian banks.The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), said it had imposed a penalty of £465,000 on HSF Moscow, which was a subsidiary of HSF London until its closure in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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1 week ago London firms struggling to fill vacancies as picky job applicants demand to WFH while employers bemoan lack of 'Maths and English skills' in workers

More and more people have settled into home living while working since the first Covid-19 pandemic was declared five years ago this month.

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2 w. ago Israel launches ‘limited ground operation’ to retake Netzarim corridor in Gaza

UN calls for investigation after staff member among 20 people reportedly killed in renewed airstrikesIsraeli forces have launched a “limited ground operation” to retake the Netzarim corridor, a newly widened road protected by fortified bunkers that divides Gaza and is seen as essential to controlling the devastated Palestinian territory.The move is a significant escalation of Israel’s new offensive in Gaza and came less than 36 hours after a massive wave of airstrikes that killed more than 400, including 183 children and 94 women, the health ministry there said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago London firms struggling to recruit staff as people want to WFH

London firms struggling to recruit staff as people want to WFH  City A.M.

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2 w. ago Locals lived in fear of 'nightmare' neighbour, 62, for years as he subjected them to harassment campaign including 'hitting them with his crutches'

Phillip Herrick, 62, 'repeatedly' targeted people living around him and members of staff at a property management service in Cheltenham.

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2 w. ago News | Global trading firm lights up London offices with 400,000

News | Global trading firm lights up London offices with 400,000-square-foot-plus requirement  CoStar Group

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2 w. ago London Law Firm Sues Former Staff in Multimillion Dollar Lawsuit

London Law Firm Sues Former Staff in Multimillion Dollar Lawsuit  Lawfuel

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3 w. ago The US Postal Service helped build the Black middle class. Trump could end that legacy

Trump is expected to privatize the USPS, where Black people make up 29% of the staff, and cut down on the number of jobsIn recent weeks, the fate of the United States Postal Service (USPS), a revered and vital public institution, has been uncertain. Since the start of his second presidency, Donald Trump has launched major changes to the federal government. Along with billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the president has carried out widespread layoffs at agencies such as the Small Business Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with the purported goal of cutting costs and boosting efficiency. Now, Trump is turning his focus to the post office, an agency he has long been critical of and one that he may be privatizing.In addition to delivering upwards of 343.5m pieces of mail and packages a day, the post office is responsible for administering official government forms such as passport applications, and providing banking...

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3 w. ago Increasing minimum income needed for all UK work visas to £38,700 would hit firms, warn London bosses

The Tories are proposing a blanket £38,700 minimum income requirement for all UK work visas

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3 w. ago US law firms’ London expansion drives record number of job moves

US law firms’ London expansion drives record number of job moves  Financial Times

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3 w. ago BBC chairman Samir Shah says broadcaster needs more northern working class staff

He also discussed how junior staff have felt ‘vulnerable’ and ‘preyed on’ by people with power.

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