#redundancies

#redundancies

Department of Building inspectors and Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park employees have begun the process of prepping the Coney Island park for its 103rd season with month-long ride inspections.The southern Brooklyn area is typically full with shrills of excitement, fresh summer treats and century old games - but it falls quiet during the colder months.

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A council has been criticised after spending almost £1,500 of development money on a festival which celebrated the Northern line extension.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The latest round of job cuts by tech giant Meta will result in a relatively small number of redundancies at its Irish operations, the Taoiseach has said.Leo Varadkar expressed sympathy with those set to lose their jobs but he insisted that the longer-term outlook for the tech sector in Ireland remained positive.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Britain's unemployment rate has remained unchanged, but there are further signs of cracks in the jobs market after official figures showed a fall in vacancies and an increase in redundancies.

The Toll Gate and The Angel now have buyers interested in the Wetherspoon pubs (Image: Street View) Two north London Wetherspoon pubs that have been on the market since September last year have found buyers.A Wetherspoon spokesperson has confirmed that buyers have been found for both The Toll Gate in Turnpike Lane and The Angel pub in Islington.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The former director of the BBC Singers has criticised the corporation's proposed cuts to classical music performing groups, claiming the broadcaster wants to chase on the coat tails of Netflix or Amazon.

P ayroll staff at bankrupt Croydon Council are considering strike action over a proposed cost-cutting restructure, GMB union has said.Union members will be balloted next week over fears the council's proposed department restructure would axe a quarter of current jobs.The beleaguered council is currently facing a 1.6 billion fiscal black hole, which Tory Croydon Mayor Jason Perry said is inherited from the previous Labour administration.

The UK government's spy agency is warning corporations of the risks of feeding sensitive data into public large language models, including ChatGPT, saying they are opening themselves up for a world of potential pain unless correctly managed.Google, Microsoft and others are currently shoe-horning LLMs - the latest craze in tech, - into their enterprise products, and Meta's LLaMa recently leaked.

Nothing, Forever, an AI-generated livestream inspired by Seinfeld is back on Twitch after being taken offline for an anti-LGBTQ outburst, has reported.After launching in December, the show (from Mismatch Media) became internet-famous for its Seinfeld-adjacent plots, janky '90s-era video game style animation and terrible (though coherent) dialogue.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: a last minute government deal by the UK government will see HSBC acquire Silicon Valley Bank; Signature Bank becomes the latest crypto-friendly institution to shut down; and Meta is reportedly working on a standalone app to rival Twitter.HSBC to buy SVB for £1 following government deal
The UK government has arranged for Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) UK operations to be bought out by HSBC.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails British Steel is planning to close the coke ovens at one of its plants, with the loss of up to 260 jobs, the company announced.The Chinese-owned steelmaker said the move at its site in Scunthorpe was part of its drive to overcome global economic challenges and build a green and sustainable future.

The City of London Corporation (CoLC) is restructuring across its open spaces giving rise to concern about the future of public safety.The union GMB London, representing members employed by CoLC working at Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest, West Ham Park and others, has been informed that potentially 40 staff could lose their jobs, with cuts made to park keepers, enforcement officers and other roles.

Called by the National Education Union, the industrial action from February 28 to March 2 saw more than 200,000 teachers walk out in protest over poor pay and lack of funding for state schools across the country.NEU president Louise Atkinson, Gospel Oak Primary School head teacher John Hayes and parent activist Madeleine Holt were among the key speakers.

Lien releases are involved in several much larger regulated processes related to paid-in-full loans, charged-off loans, loan forgiveness and other default-related scenarios that require a mortgage to be discharged.Each of these processes involves specific documentation, compliance requirements and service levels throughout the payoff or charge-off.

Clinch, the leader in dynamic ad serving and personalisation and creator of Flight Control, the omnichannel campaign activation platform, today (March 8th, 2023) announced that the company has been selected as the primary ad serving and dynamic creative optimisation (DCO) partner of Tombras, one of the largest independent national advertising agencies in the United States, to power their enhanced suite of digital creative solutions.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the EU threatens Twitter with a significant fine over its lack of compliance with online legislation; Amazon's hardware teams are the first to be hit as the tech giant downsize; and Foodpanda partners with Huawei.Twitter threatened with fine or ban by EU
The European Commission has warned Twitter that it must "significantly increase" it's attempts to comply with online legislation or face potential fine or ban.