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Congress has passed three COVID-19 relief packages, which include payroll support for shuttered businesses to retain employees. Congress now eyes a fourth package to expand…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB251865
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Efforts to tackle financial problems at state-owned coal miner Polska Grupa Gornicza (PGG) were deferred during the two-year election cycle which ended in July. PGG faces the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB256279
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The proposal seeks to deal with a supposedly temporary shortage of workers but will also help address the longer-term issue of Japan’s declining workforce and ageing society.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB240025
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The recovery of the US labour market still lags that of the economy overall, although it mirrors its bifurcation. While the COVID-19 recession has ended for high-wage workers, job…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB265291
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The gap between demand and supply has been rising for years, but the pandemic-induced spurt in digitisation worldwide has accelerated the need within the public and private…
The union represents some 340,000 workers at UPS, the largest US package delivery company. The United States is experiencing a rise in strikes and work stoppages espite low union…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280183
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Most of the vanishing visitors were tourists, but they also included foreign workers and students. Omicron COVID-19 cases are falling more slowly in Japan than in other countries…
This followed Abu Dhabi's decision in June 2016 to boost mandatory insurance premiums for expatriates' basic healthcare entitlements. Nationals must also now make a co-payment…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB217390
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With more than 50 metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada meeting Amazon's minimum population requirement of at least 1 million, cities across the continent have…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB225159
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While a majority of Canadians support the measures that Trudeau ultimately took to clear the protests, his handling of the situation saw a spike in his disapproval rating…