“ ‘An unvaccinated workforce is both a people and business risk that our company is unwilling to take.’ ” — Mark Valade, Carhartt The Supreme Court may have blocked the Biden administration ’s attempt to ensure that business with 100 or more employee require COVID-19 vaccines or frequent testing, but […]
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink says the old world of work is ‘gone’ and that’s why everyone is quitting
BlackRock’s Larry Fink wrote in his annual letter to CEOs about the record number of workers quitting.Fink said that workers seeking new opportunities is a good thing and that companies have to adapt.Companies that don’t adjust to the “new reality” will “do so at their own peril,” he said.Get a […]
States are increasingly considering equal shared parenting in custody cases. This young Kentucky couple serve as a test case.
Judge Brent Hall had some stern words of advice for the young couple seated before him at Hopkins County Family Court in Madisonville, Ky.Jordan Pyles and Ashlyn Harrell had come to make some small adjustments to a temporary custody arrangement for their 4-year-old daughter, but on this March afternoon in […]
International airlines suspend some US flights over 5G issue
(CNN Business) Major international airlines are scrambling to modify or cancel flights to the United States amid uncertainty about potential interference between new 5G cell phone services and critical airplane technologies. Emirates, Air India, All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa and British Airways all announced changes to some flights, citing […]
Tonga volcano erupted with force of more than 600 Hiroshima bombs
The undersea volcano near the island nation of Tonga erupted on Saturday with an explosive force that was more than 600 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan , according to scientists and reports.James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told NPR […]
COVID-19: Working from home, COVID passports and mask-wearing to go as England Plan B rules to be lifted | UK News | Sky News
Work from home guidance, COVID passports and mandatory wearing of face masks are being scrapped in England, as Boris Johnson announced the lifting of Plan B measures. The prime minister said people will no longer be told to work from home “from now on”, and from Thursday next week mandatory […]
Fashion journalist and icon André Leon Talley has died at 73
Enlarge this image André Leon Talley, a former editor at large for Vogue magazine, speaks to a reporter at the opening of the “Black Fashion Designers” exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York on Dec.6, 2016.Seth Wenig/AP Seth Wenig/AP André Leon Talley, a former editor at large […]
Airlines warn 5G rollout could cause “catastrophic disruption” to travel and shipping – CBS News
The chief executives of America’s largest airlines warned of a “catastrophic disruption” to travel and shipping operations if telecommunication companies roll out their 5G technology as planned Wednesday without limiting the technology near U.S.airports. On Tuesday, AT&T and Verizon both confirmed to CBS News that they have voluntarily agreed to […]
SpaceX Veterans Aim To Shake Up Freight Rail With Electric, Robotic Trains
Mile-long, slow-moving diesel trains loaded with cargo chugging slowly across the U.S.could be a thing of the past one day if stealth startup Parallel Systems has its way.The Los Angeles company thinks the future of freight lies in autonomous battery-powered trains that squeeze far more capacity out of existing rail […]
US airlines are warning 5G could ground planes. Could this happen in Australia?
Telecoms companies AT&T and Verizon have delayed turning on new mobile phone towers around runways at some US airports in response to airlines warning of an impending aviation “crisis” that could disrupt flights and strand thousands of passengers every day.For months now, US airlines and the aviation regulator have been […]