Author: LoveWorld UK

It was a night when violence erupted in the Wembley stands and England felt a rare form of tension run through a disjointed performance. It was impossible to get away from the terrible scenes inside the area that housed the Hungary fans, with the abiding image being that of a Metropolitan police officer repeatedly striking one of them with a baton and getting quite a few punches back. The trouble had flared in the third minute and it rumbled on for about seven, Hungary supporters rushing towards what looked like a minimal police presence. The coming together was sickening. The Met said…

Amazon could owe compensation totalling £140m to thousands of drivers delivering its parcels, according to a law firm that is launching a group claim on their behalf. Drivers who deliver for Amazon through its “delivery service partners” are classed as self-employed, meaning they are not entitled to employee rights such as holiday pay and the minimum wage, while they also do not have an employment contract. The law firm Leigh Day believes at least 3,000 drivers are affected, and could be entitled to an average of £10,500 in compensation for each year they have delivered for the online retail giant. It believes Amazon…

Britain’s financial watchdog warned banks and investment firms on Monday it could swoop on staff who work from home to check they are not harming customers or markets. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said firms that want to introduce ‘hybrid’, or a mix of home and office, working on a permanent basis must have their plans vetted by regulators first. Many financial staff worked from home after Britain locked down the economy in March 2020 to fight COVID-19, but since then employees have begun returning part or full time to the office after restrictions were ended this summer. Some firms…

Job vacancies soared to a record high of almost 1.2m in September, according to official figures, as employers hunted for staff to meet shortages brought on by Brexit and the pandemic. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures also showed a 207,000 increase in the number of people on payrolls to a record 29.2 million – 120,000 above pre-pandemic levels – and a steep fall in unemployment before the furlough scheme came to an end at the end of September. London experienced the biggest rise in employment as the capital made up ground with the rest of the country after a…

Steve Bruce was understood to be close to losing his job as Newcastle United’s manager on Monday night as the club’s new Saudi Arabian power broker, Yasir al-Rumayyan, prepared to visit St James’ Park for the first time. Rumayyan, Newcastle’s non-executive chairman, is scheduled to be at Sunday’s Premier League home game against Tottenham, with the first-team coach, Graeme Jones, likely to be in caretaker charge of the team, while the board continues to assess the credentials of shortlisted managerial candidates – including the current bookmakers’ favourite Lucien Favre and Leicester’s Brendan Rodgers. Amanda Staveley, the director and minority stakeholder…

European travel is reviving and easyJet (EZJ.L)is increasing flights between now and December, the British airline said on Tuesday, after running up an annual loss of over 1 billion pounds during the pandemic. For the autumn period, easyJet said that it would fly 70% of its pre-pandemic capacity, a jump from the 60% it had been aiming for only a month earlier, as demand for holidays surged, particularly in the UK where travel rules have been loosened. Winter sun destinations such as Egypt, Turkey and the Canary Islands were popular, business travellers were returning to the skies, and easyJet’s chief executive…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday issued an executive order that bans vaccine mandates by any entity, including private employers, in the state. “The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective, and our best defense against the virus, but should remain voluntary and never forced,” Abbott said in a statement upon issuing the order. The executive order (pdf) states, “No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from…

Sidney Powell’s Defending the Republic filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense (DOD) over the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Last week, the DOD announced that its employees would have until early November to get both COVID-19 vaccine shots, according to a memorandum. It stipulates that employees have to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 22, but individuals are not considered fully inoculated until two weeks after they’ve received both shots, or a single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine. Weeks before that, the Pentagon mandated vaccines for all military members. Defending the Republic, in a news release, said it filed the lawsuit on behalf of 16…

5-day Word marathon with Pastor Chris to beam live globally via all LoveWorld Networks and internet platforms. Another all-new season of the revolutionary ‘Your LoveWorld Specials’ with Pastor Chris (Season 4, Phase I), is set to eclipse the globe in splendor from Monday, October 11th to Friday, October 15, 2021. This week-long content-packed and life-transforming event will be beamed live to a teeming global audience, via all LoveWorld Networks and various internet platforms. It would also be transmitted in several languages of the world cutting across all continents. This is a new season of the most-watched telecast across the globe,…

Zambia’s debt to Chinese creditors was over $6 billion by the end of June, according to data disclosed by the government on Oct. 7. The Chinese regime’s lending practices have been labeled “debt-trap diplomacy,” as it provides developing nations with often unpayable loans for infrastructure projects, making them dependent on China. The figures were published by Zambia’s recently elected new administration, after the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) released a report (pdf) last month estimating the country’s debt to Chinese lenders to be $6.6 billion. The new number is roughly double the amount divulged by the previous government. Zambia’s exposure to Chinese…