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New trends are emerging in new contractual provisions for senior executives, as skills shortages and hybrid working becomes the norm.

Younger staff who have lost their jobs at galleries, museums and auction houses risk having their careers derailed by having to sign non-compete agreements to get a pay-off Credit: Grant Rooney / Alamy Stock Photo The mass job losses triggered by the pandemic have exposed the art sector’s lamentable approach to human resources, with reports of poor redundancy procedures, pressure to sign stringent non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), paltry pay-offs and unsafe working condi...

From the NS Archive: The Rackets of Chicago 3 May 1930: Chicago cracks down on its gang crime By 1930, president Hoover’s mission to sort out Chicago’s gang problem — primarily that led by boss Al Capone — was beginning to pick up pace. Here, in May 1930, our anonymous correspondent outlines the state of organised crime (or racketeering, as it was known), something that had grown rapidly in the past few years. There were still 60 rackets at work in Chicago in 1930, each of which would ...