Can I come back to the office? 20.04.2021 Most Luxembourg workers haven t gotten comfortable working from home Photo credit: Foto: Getty Images By Nadia di Pillo and Emery P. Dalesio
A clear majority of people who have spent most of the past year working from home to limit the spread of Covid-19 want to ditch the casual clothing and spend more time in the office.
Almost three-quarters of respondents in Luxembourg said they would like to be back in their workplace some, if not all the time, a recent survey by temporary jobs agency Randstad found.
Less than half of Luxembourg s workforce have jobs that allow them to work from home. The survey of 800 people in various industries conducted between January and March found more than two-thirds said they miss contact with their colleagues, 46% have had difficulty maintaining a healthy work-life balance and 30% said they feel isolated.
Prominent building at Diekirch brewery burns 18.04.2021 Police say they haven t ruled out arson as they investigate overnight blaze
By Sarah Cames and Emery P. Dalesio
Arson has not be ruled out after a fire early on Sunday gutted a decades-old stone building at the site of the brewery which produces Diekirch and Mousel beers.
The blaze at the Brasserie de Luxembourg in Diekirch left a new beer production building that opened in 2019 undamaged, authorities said. The damaged building was intended to be preserved as the site is rehabilitated into a residential community that has been planned for a decade and in development since 2012.
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Luxembourg halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine 4 min. 15.03.2021 Product suspended pending further testing, health minister says Luxembourg Health Minister Paulette Lenert Photo credit: Gerry Huberty
By Patrick Jacquemot and Emery P. Dalesio
Luxembourg has stopped giving out doses of a batch of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by AstraZeneca pending further testing by European medical experts, Health Minister Paulette Lenert said on Thursday.
The decision came after Denmark and other European countries suspended the vaccine after reports that four patients in Austria were diagnosed with dangerous blood clotting conditions.
Luxembourg had not given out any injections from the batch of 4,800 doses of the vaccine, a source close to the health ministry said.