Tag: COVID-19 pandemic
Dutch airline KLM plans 'painful' cost-cutting to combat high costs and staff shortages
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Dutch airline KLM announced a “painful” round of cost-cutting and other measures Thursday aimed at boosting the carrier's finances...
Are digital tools a way for companies to retain hourly workers?
NEW YORK -- The COVID-19 pandemic and the resetting of the economy that followed it made hourly workers more aware of their value....
New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says
A new analysis of genetic material gathered from a live-animal market in Wuhan in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic strengthens...
Tupperware lifts the lid on its financial problems with bankruptcy filing
NEW YORK -- The company behind Tupperware, the plastic kitchenware that revolutionized food storage after World War II and became inextricably linked to...
A union leader freed from prison vows to continue a strike against Cambodia's's biggest casino
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A union leader freed from prison Monday after serving time for her part in a strike against Cambodia’s biggest...
Sri Lanka's opposition leader says the rich will pay more if he becomes president next week
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka’s opposition leader contesting the presidential election next week said Thursday that if he comes to power he...