A pub boss shut down a newly opened boozer after he overheard a punter swearing, it's claimed. The Fox and Goose pub in Droitwich, Worcestershire, was only opened seven weeks ago by owners Samuel Smith’s Brewery. But the landlord says that after boss Humphrey Smith, 74, popped in for a pint on Sunday the pub […]
(Reuters) – WeWork’s India franchise has seen talks with local lender ICICI Bank Ltd (ICBK.NS) on $100 million in funding break down since The We Company’s botched stock market launch, and is in early discussions to raise $200 million from new investors, the venture’s chief shareholder Jitu Virwani said on Thursday. Virwani’s Embassy Group, backed […]
Britain looks set to escape a recession, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. The economy fell 0.1% in August but overall growth game in at 0.3% over the past three months. That means the chances of us officially entering recession are now all down to how well things performed in September […]
Just before 20,000 Google employees left their desks last fall to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment, a debate broke out among the hundreds of workers involved in formulating a list of demands. Some workers argued that they could win fairer pay policies and a full accounting of harassment claims by filing lawsuits or […]
A secret Government memo has starkly warned of “conflict at sea” and “blockades” in Irish waters in the immediate aftermath of a no-deal Brexit. Cabinet ministers were given the dire warning as part of a confidential briefing from Tánaiste Simon Coveney. Please log in or register with Independent.ie for free access to this article. Log […]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) pilots are receiving record overtime, straining the airline’s labor costs, partly as it adds more flights to take advantage of a gap in demand left by the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX at rival carriers, union officials told Reuters. The surge in overtime highlights a split in […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job openings fell to a 1-1/2-year low in August and hiring declined, suggesting employment growth was slowing largely because of ebbing demand for labor as the economy loses momentum. Despite the third straight monthly drop in vacancies reported by the Labor Department on Wednesday, job openings are still plenty enough to […]
Plans for a shake-up which will force tech giants such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook to pay more taxes in the countries where they do business have been announced by the OECD. The rules are designed to tackle the issue of big companies parking their European profits in low-tax countries such as Ireland or […]
PASCHAL Donohoe has decided to take a careful, tentative step into the political minefield of climate change. Most people agree that climate change has to be stopped and that Ireland needs to do more. But so far there is very little agreement on who should pay the significant price of “doing our bit” in addressing […]
Paschal Donohoe wasn’t inclined to give direct payments to parents this year, either in the form of increased Child Benefit (which benefits everyone, irrespective of need), or help toward eye-wateringly expensive childcare by way of a tax break. Instead, the gifts came small and indirectly. Health Under-sixes will get their baby teeth examined for free […]