Billion-dollar pledges and the news that the United States will distribute an initial 25 million doses will do little to curb the explosive outbreaks in poor countries, experts said
Companies are becoming more willing to pay a little more, to train workers, to take chances on people without traditional qualifications and to show greater flexibility in where and how people work.
Workers Are Gaining Leverage Over Employers Right Before Our Eyes
“Employers are becoming much more cognizant that yes, it’s about money, but also about quality of life.”
Adquena Faine at home in Chesapeake, Va. She is a former driver for a ride-hailing service who entered an I.B.M. apprenticeship program and is now building a career as a cloud storage engineer.Credit.Dawn Bangi for The New York Times
June 5, 2021, 12:16 p.m. ET
The relationship between American businesses and their employees is undergoing a profound shift: For the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand.
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Robert MacLeod, Chief Executive, commented: Our employees have done a tremendous job adapting to new ways of working through COVID-19, whilst still delivering for our customers. It is thanks to their hard work that we have delivered a robust set of results which, in the context of a pandemic, is especially pleasing and testament to their efforts.
Following a challenging first half, we recovered strongly in the second half helped by a strong recovery in our end markets and higher precious metal prices. We are delivering our efficiency programme, tightly managing working capital and generating cash from our more established businesses which we are continuing to invest for growth, particularly in battery materials and hydrogen. In the year we made good strategic progress. We began entering into partnerships to advance the commercialisation of eLNO and secured new customer wins in Fuel Cells. Our investment in sustainabl