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BBC News By Evan Davis image captionThe boss of Youngs Transportation says a lacks of HGV drivers is made worse by a shortage to driver training test slots. It's not often that economies face the disruption we've endured in the last year, and none of us should be surprised that it's taking the labour market a while to settle down. But some are wondering whether Covid is triggering an historic rebalancing of power between the bosses and the workers. No-one in their right mind would compare Covid to the Black Death, which wiped out enough of the workforce in the 14th Century for peasant labou...
Senior ministers will decide today whether to expand the scheme the department for environment, food and rural affairs says 500 sites have been identified for daily testing, which will be carried out by employers within the workplace. we represent distributors of food and drink to hospitals, to schools, to care homes, to prisons, to restaurants, cafes and shops. so, knowing that we are in scope as well is really, really great, because it means that businesses that have been affected by the pandemic can actually plan for any colleagues that go off. whereas previously if somebody had been pinged...
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Europe rang in the new year by wrapping up one of the world's biggest divorces. At the stroke of midnight in Paris, the U.K. completed its exit from the European Union after decades of being a member. That means new regulations for trade and new challenges. To get a sense of the true impact, we have reporters on either side of the English Channel. Rebecca Rosman is in the French port city of Calais, and NPR's London correspondent, Frank Langfitt, is in the English port town of Dover. Good morning to you both.