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Borderland recreation sites see crowds for holiday weekend KVIA Enthusiasts ride a roller coaster at Western Playland. EL PASO, Texas -- Memorial Day 2020 left many stuck indoors as business restrictions were in place due to the outbreak of Covid-19. This year, with more and more Americans getting vaccinated, Memorial Day weekend felt more like pre-pandemic times. "Its been amazing. We opened up the first weekend in May and already then it was a bit busier than expected and ever since then it h...

Age discrimination cases in England and Wales increase by 176% in last three months of 2020

Article content Waking up after a long night of celebrating his birthday, a man was shocked to find himself tied to his friend’s couch with a dog leash and rope, and no memory of what happened. He had a deep gash on his hand and his face was covered. His friend, Ryley Lorne Olynik, removed the covering, gave him a puff off a vape pen and told him he needed to come up with some money. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Man sentenced to prison in o...

AGEISM is having a profound effect on older workers, with a third of people in their 50s and 60s feeling disadvantaged when applying for jobs, research reveals. Data from the National Institute of Economic & Social Research and cross-party think tank Demos showed almost one in five older workers have been turned down for a job because of their age and nearly a third were told they have “too much” experience for some roles. People from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are more likely...

When Paul Bateman, chairman of the board of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and George Gatch, CEO and a 33-year veteran of the bank, told thousands of employees in 2018 that a crisis was coming and it was time to prepare, it seemed like unwarranted negativity. While stocks seemed frothy after a long bull market, there weren’t any signs it would end anytime soon. But Gatch and Bateman, the former chairman of Robert Fleming Asset Management, which JPMorgan acquired in its 2000 merger with Chase...

NEWS that Jenners, once renowned as “the Harrods of the North”, is to close in May, has left many of its customers bereft. Not that it comes as any great shock. In recent years, while run by House of Fraser, it has been painful to visit, with its warren of shabby corridors, groaning lifts that never seemed to arrive, and its stock on almost permanent reduction. In its prime, however, Jenners was the foremost department store in the capital, a byword for class and style. Its heyday lasted ...

BBC News image captionJenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838 Every city and town had a Victorian department store that captured the middle class spirit of lady shoppers - but in Edinburgh, Jenners was a refined cut above It is a big moment for the capitals city centre if its anchor store faces closure. That was announced by Frasers on the same day that two new online fashion giants expand into the UKs traditional retail brands But the buildings owner isnt giving u...

Financial News An Audience With Patrick Thomson: ‘The office isn’t dead. You can’t manage people with algorithms’ ‘As a leader, you have to be even more visible at a time of crisis. You are reminded you are managing human beings’ Patrick Thomson expects there will be more consolidation coming Danilo Agutoli for FN By Monday January 25, 2021 7:14 am Patrick Thomson achieved what most people tried and failed to do during the first national lockdown: he took up a ...

The last-minute deal between London and Brussels has left the UK's financial services sector in the dark, according to several investment....

Fears have been raised that ageism in the recruitment process could exacerbate an unemployment crisis for over-50s in the year ahead, with the…