Coronavirus Crisis: War Against the Variants
The health ministry estimated that the reproduction R number in England was between 1 and 1.2, and the epidemic could be growing by as much as 3% each day.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would exercise caution in lifting restrictions, but there was no expected delay in easing them on June 21. The critical thing is the impact on the number of people who end up in hospital for any given number of cases. That link has been broken by the vaccine, but it hasn t been completely severed yet, and that s one of the things that we re watching very carefully, health secretary Matt Hancock told Reuters agency.
LONDON: After months of working from home, more than 150,000 people have called on the UK government to ban out-of-hours emails by introducing a “right to disconnect” for employees outside working hours.
The workers, represented by a trade union called Prospect, launched the campaign after the Republic of Ireland issued a decision in April which gives employees the right to not respond to messages, calls or emails outside of work hours.
The “right to disconnect” law was introduced in France four years ago and has been in effect ever since.
Banning out-of-hours emails would mean that bosses cannot routinely email employees after their work day is finished. Instead, any emails sent at these times could be automatically deleted to stop employees from continuously checking their emails.