One of the UK’s biggest pork producers has spent £4 million ($4.8 million) hiring butchers from the Philippines, after a staffing crisis threatened to hamper production. Cranswick Plc, which supplies supermarkets with pork and poultry, is paying for 400 butchers to travel from the Asian islands to work in Britain after staff from continental Europe […]
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In Britain, nurses prepare for unprecedented strike over pay
GOSPORT, England/LONDON — Chukwudubem Ifeajuna, a nurse in the south of England, loves his job, but next month will walk out for two days as part of British nurses’ biggest ever strike action, which he says is necessary for staff and patient welfare alike. The industrial action on Dec. 15 and Dec. 20 is unprecedented […]
Executive secretary replacement eyed
PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. is considering several people for executive secretary, the presidential palace said on Tuesday. “There are names being considered but there is still no appointment being released,” Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles told a news briefing. Victor D. Rodriguez at the weekend said he had resigned as executive secretary but would […]
4 dogs unleashed to help wanted person elude arrest
A DOG is said to be a man’s best friend as one of its characteristics is loyalty—it protects its human master in trouble.In Toledo City, Cebu past Sunday noon on July 17, 2022, a tale of canine loyalty happened: Four dogs, all of local breed, were unleashed to keep police officers from arresting their owner […]
In call with Twitter staff, Elon Musk muses on space aliens, company’s future
Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time on Thursday, expressing his view that Twitter would need to cut its headcount, but offering few other new details about his $44 billion planned takeover of the social media company. Mr. Musk appeared via video call 10 minutes late to what turned out to be a […]
Qantas is so stretched it needs office staff to work as ground crew
AUSTRALIA’s Qantas Airways Ltd. is appealing to head-office employees to help the airline’s overworked ground handling staff as the pandemic-hit sector struggles to cope with a rebound in air travel. Workers at the headquarters of Sydney-based Qantas and its Melbourne-based low-cost airline Jetstar have been asked to step in and assist during the peak July […]
Tell it to Sunstar: Rehab CEO and staff ‘kept stockholders in the dark’ about Covid situation
THIS is in reaction to the news article “Talamban Rehab on Lockdown,” which ran on Oct. 29, 2021. I am a part-owner and stockholder of the aforementioned rehab under lockdown. My spouse and I own 10 percent of the stocks, with my spouse as a member of the Board of Directors. I would like to […]
4 more Homecare Center staff test positive for Covid-19
THE head of the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) in Lapu-Lapu City, Annabeth Cuizon, revealed that four more staff members of the Homecare Center in Brgy. Gun-ob tested positive for Covid-19. These are in addition to the first 33 who tested positive in the facility, 31 of them being minors and two are […]
McDonald’s US makes masks mandatory for all customers, staff
MCDONALD’S Corp. on Monday confirmed that all its customers and staff will need to start wearing masks again inside its US restaurants in areas with high or substantial transmission, regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not. The resurgence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the United States due to the Delta variant and […]
Rimini Street set to hire local staff in PHL expansion
ENTERPRISE software support firm Rimini Street, Inc. will be hiring its first set of Philippine staff as it expands local services in response to growing demand. Andrew Seow, Rimini Street regional general manager for ASEAN and Greater China, said the company had been seeing increasing interest for it services amid the pandemic, including demand from […]
Regional Updates (04/15/21)
1 of 2 PCG Sea patrol MEMBERS of the Philippine Coast Guard took photos of these China-flagged ships during maritime patrol operations on April 13 at the Julian Felipe Reef using the BRP Cabra and two vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. Storm Surigae to affect eastern parts of Visayas, Luzon over […]