Corporate insolvencies as pandemic restrictions fade
By PATRICE CROSBOURNE
THE UK Government Insolvency Service has released statistics for corporate insolvencies in England and Wales for May 2022.
An increase in corporate insolvencies...
Job-swap hope for airline workers — but misery for EasyJet staff
By Hal Williams
IN A WEEK where EasyJet announced plans to cut up to 30 percent of its employees to save costs, home healthcare company...
Lengthy bans for directors who fiddled Covid scheme
AN AVERAGE of 35 directors are being banned by the UK Insolvency Service each month for abusing the Covid Support Scheme.
That’s almost treble the...
Internal auditors ‘strategic advisers’ on online fraud
DATA AND tech company Kroll has issued a report on the changing role of internal audit in fraud risk-management since the start of the...
SDG8: From Luddites to the Mumbai exodus: workers labouring without love
JASON AGNEW reports on SDG8 — decent work and economic growth — in his ongoing series for BV
SDG8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
On March...
AI to the rescue? Oxford-based firm enters partnership to crack COVID-19
AN AI-DRIVEN drug-discovery company in the UK has entered a joint initiative to advance compounds that could treat COVID-19.
Oxford-based Exscientia has teamed-up with Diamond...
Pandemic policies linger on — and ‘hurt workers’
RESEARCH shows 59 percent of workers in “deskless” industries — manufacturing, care, construction, and retail — believe the negative effects of the pandemic are...
Oil price hits negative territory, Virgin ailing, firms need wage aid
CORONAVIRUS infections are dropping in many countries, but corporate and financial impacts are increasingly being felt.
Virgin Australia is going into administration, the US oil...
ECB launches new aid package to soothe effects of pandemic
By HAL WILLIAMS
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank has launched a €750bn emergency package to buy government and company debt across the eurozone.
The temporary purchasing scheme...
New Normal, old thrills: do hybrid events cut it?
By JOE SHEPPARD
SLOWLY but surely, the world is spinning back into a familiar rhythm.
The gradual return to the office is gathering pace. Theatres and...
