2 w. ago US Fed’s Powell signals possible rate cut in Jackson Hole speech – business live

Chair of the Federal Reserve says US economy is facing ‘challenging situation’ as inflation risks persist and job market coolsUnions are raising concerns about the threat of TikTok layoffs, warning it would put millions of British TikTok users at risk.John Chadfield of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said:TikTok workers have long been sounding the alarm over the real-world costs of cutting human moderation teams in favour of hastily developed, immature AI alternatives.This has been a constant concern throughout the process of TikTok workers’ effort to form a union. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health

More than 750 health workers say Kennedy’s misinformation fuels violence and endangers livesCurrent and former employees at US health agencies released a letter on Wednesday outlining how misinformation spread by Robert F Kennedy Jr is endangering the lives of federal employees and the American people.Experts emphasized to the Guardian that he’s “an existential threat to public health”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago As summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John Harris

There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UKMontse Aguilar was only 51 when she died. She lived in the El Poble-sec area of Barcelona – it translates from Catalan as “the dry village” – where she cared for her 85-year-old mother and sang in a local choir. For three years, she had worked as a city street cleaner for an outsourcing company, wearing a lime-green uniform – made, her family later said, from “100% polyester a material used to make coats”.On 28 June, her shift in the city’s Gothic Quarter began at 2.30pm and ended seven hours later. The temperature that day had reached more than 35C, which left workers like her exposed: Spain has a clearer system of regulations covering heat and work than a lot of other countries, but it is still full of gaps.John Harris is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Popular UK pub shut down after 'mafia style' violence and 77 police calls in 15 months

The North Eight pub has been the scene of numerous violent incidents, with the committee adding that the "current operation of the licence undermined" all four licensing objectives

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3 w. ago Workers 'put at risk of asbestos exposure' in 'serious incident' during pub demolition

A Manchester-based construction company has been fined

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4 w. ago Construction firm fined after workers put at risk of asbestos exposure at pub

The company must pay more than £10,000 in total

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4 w. ago Big Brother star sobs in court after buying petrol for Molotov cocktail

A Big Brother star, who appeared on the show in 2017, appeared in court along with two others over an incident that occurred at the Peggy Junes pub in Redcar earlier this year

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