Victorian Bar launches online health and wellbeing portal
By Naomi Neilson|24 February 2021
Victorian barristers can now access information and resources for mental health and wellbeing via a new portal designed by the Victorian Bar. The chair of its health and wellbeing committee talked to Lawyers Weekly about how the portal will assist and why it is so important that barristers are engaging with support services.
The portal, which was designed by barristers for barristers, will address the common mental health challenges and difficulties in personal and professional life, including stress and work pressures, security, health and sexual harassment and bullying. The free service can be accessed by barristers and their families at any time.
Alberta parents who use child care will receive $561 per child with the new Working Parents Benefit, a one-time payment to help parents with the cost of child care.
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Fletcher forecasts 312% operating profit rise, sector faces recruitment pressures
19 Feb, 2021 04:25 AM
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Fletcher Building has bounced back, forecasting it will make $610 million to $660m operating profit for the full year, up on the previous year s pandemic-hit $160m. Last year, the business reported a net earnings loss so this year s anticipated result is a huge turnaround for New Zealand s largest building materials manufacturer, supplier and builder.
But the latest forecast rise is not as spectacular if one looks back to 2019, when it made $549m operating profit.
Still, the company exceeded even its own forecast top-end range this week. It had said that in the half-year to December 31, 2020, it would make $305m to $320m but it came in $3m above that at $323m and surprised the market by declaring it would reinstate dividends and pay shareholders 12cps next month.
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ISG Provider Lens report finds enterprises accelerating digital development amid supply-chain disruptions, threats to international trade and growing need for local production
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the supply chains of German manufacturers, increasing pressure to virtualize production and bring it closer to customers, according to a new report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.
The 2020 ISG Provider Lens
Manufacturing Industry Services report for Germany said the country s manufacturing industry, already undergoing digital transformation prior to the pandemic, has begun to compete on new dimensions, including the ability to detect and respond to rapidly changing customer demands and to provide products as a service. The events of the past year accelerated the trend toward digitization.