An annual study conducted by the British Retail Consortium further highlighted a significant increase in violence and abuse directed at retail staff in 2023. Mike Neville, former detective chief inspector, shared his insights with NTD.
Google is starting the year off with sweeping layoffs across divisions. The layoffs include hundreds of employees who work on some of the company’s most recognizable products, including Google Assistant, the voice-activated software that helps users check the weather, set timers, and quickly look up facts. The Google Assistant layoffs are at least partly driven […]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed Attorney General Merrick Garland on Dec. 19 for information on the Department of Justice’s alleged attempts to surveil members of Congress and their staff in 2017. In a letter to Mr. Garland, the Republican lawmaker asked for all DOJ documents related to the alleged […]
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to hire nearly 20,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve tax enforcement and customer service, it said on Thursday . The tax agency, in its long-awaited Strategic Operating Plan, said it will obligate […]
The top Republican on the House Oversight Committee said that Twitter staff involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential elections will face Congress and testify about their actions. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the GOP ranking member on the Committee, made the remarks in a Friday appearance on Fox News […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced Friday it has 4,000 customer service representatives as part of efforts to prepare for the 2023 tax filing season. The 4,000 new hires, which the federal agency dubs a “milestone,” were recruited over the last several months and “are being trained to provide help to taxpayers, including answering phone questions,” […]
First lady Jill Biden’s longtime press secretary Michael LaRosa is leaving the White House, he confirmed Tuesday. “For a kid from Easton, Pennsylvania, who only ever dreamed of stepping foot into this history-rich residence for a tour, working for First Lady Jill Biden in the White House has been the proudest and most rewarding experience […]
Twitter said it’s experiencing somewhat elevated levels of staff attrition amid the social media giant’s buyout battle with Elon Musk, who refused to agree to a golden handcuffs plan endorsed by Twitter management to retain talent. “Tweeps,” as the company dubs its employees, have been quitting their jobs at a similar rate to industry peers […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an internal company email viewed and reported on by Reuters that he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy and that the electric car giant needed to slash employment by around 10 percent. The email, which was reportedly titled “pause all hiring worldwide,” was sent on June 2 […]
The U.S. State Department has told all non-essential consular staff that they must leave the Chinese city of Shanghai, as China sticks to its inflexible policies in attempting to squash its COVID-19 outbreaks. The April 11 announcement is an update from last week when Washington authorized non-emergency workers to depart U.S. Consulate General Shanghai on a […]
Authorities in North Carolina have launched an investigation into possible voter fraud by Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows over allegations that he registered to vote at an address where he does not live. Nazneen Ahmed, a spokeswoman for Josh Stein, the state attorney general, confirmed to The New York Times that the North Carolina Department of Justice […]
Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are continuing to fight against mask mandates and critical race theory in their children’s schools. Many of the parents say they don’t feel that anyone is listening. And that has left them no choice, they say, but to serve papers to the members of the school board.
The UK and Australia said they have begun withdrawing some embassy personnel from Ukraine, while Germany offered assistance to staff members’ families and some civilians who want to leave. The precautionary measures come as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that “gloomy” intelligence suggested Russia was planning a lightning raid on Kyiv. The U.S. State […]
The humanitarian group Save the Children said Tuesday it has confirmed that two of its staff were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in eastern Myanmar on Christmas Eve in an attack it blamed on the country’s military.
School officials who work at Michigan’s Oxford High School could face criminal charges in connection to last week’s shooting that left four students dead, said a prosecutor involved in the case on Monday. Speaking during an interview, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said that Oxford High School staff had the legal basis to search alleged shooting […]
With the COVID-19 vaccine mandate about to go into effect, New York City school staff unions have urged the City Hall to delay the deadline lest schools face a staffing crunch. The city wants all school staff vaccinated, with only a narrow exception for medical and religious exemptions. Yet as of Sept. 24, there are […]
Indiana University Health, the biggest hospital system in the state, has announced that 125 staff members are no longer employed there after refusing to comply with the organization’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. “Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first by requiring employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 […]
Portland residents calling 911 to report emergencies are facing a “dramatic increase” in hold times, with officials saying that the system has become “unmanageable” and is “broken.” According to The Oregonian, people dialing 911 are often left waiting over two minutes for their call to be answered, far longer than the national standard of 15 to […]
