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PublishedJan 8, 2021, 9:52 am SGT
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LANSING —Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has used her "pocket veto" on legislation intended to give significant tax cuts to Michigan-based grocery giant Meijer reports The Detroit Free Press.The bills, which lawmakers said were aimed specifically at Meijer, would have removed sales tax from the purchase of automated material handling systems — used at central handling centers to prepare pallets of consumer goods for distribution to grocery stores — and remove personal property tax from
Albertsons to cut grocery delivery drivers as it moves to save money with other services
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BOISE (Idaho Statesman) Don’t be surprised the next time you order groceries delivered by Albertsons if a driver from DoorDash or another company shows up at your door.
The Boise grocery chain will soon stop using its own employees to make deliveries, according to the Idaho Statesman.
“In early December, Albertsons Companies made the strategic decision to discontinue using our own home delivery fleet across a variety of market areas and states, beginning February 27, 2021,” spokesperson Kathy Holland said in an email. “We will transition that portion of our e-commerce operations to third-party logistics providers who specialize in that service.”
ICU entreats government to lessen burden on Ghanaian workers in 2021 31st Dec 2020 | Source: GBCGhana Online
The Labour Front in the year 2020 was not the best for most public and private sector workers.
For instance, the cleansing of the banking sector and liquidation of several micro-finance companies affected thousands of workers in the sector, including those who have their jobs tied to the industry.
Worse was the emergence of the global pandemic “Covid-19” which succeeded in dislocating several other jobs, particularly in private education and the hotel and tourism sector.
General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, ICU, Solomon Kotei, ainting the agony of some Ghanaian workers said the entire labour force in the year 2020 got shook up to their bones.
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Dec 29, 2020 6:00 AM
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union says some workers at retirement and long-term care homes in New Brunswick have been excluded from a federal wage top-up since an extension in July.
UFCW national representative Carl Flanagan says more than 80 employees work in food delivery, laundry and house cleaning services at Shannex facilities and the wage top-up would vary.
“It depends on the number of hours they worked. but it’s a maximum of $500 a month.”
He says other provinces have included these roles in the top-up.
Wages for these positions start at $14.70 an hour.