Casinos run by the Navajo Nation plan to temporarily lay off more than 1,100 workers on New Years Day because of prolonged closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Walmart has resumed counting and monitoring the number of customers that enter and leave its stores, according to CNN.
The price of gold surged to a record above $1,926 per ounce on Monday as investors moved money into an asset seen as a safe haven amid jitters about U.S.-Chinese tension and the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Target and CVS announced Thursday that they will make coverings mandatory, with CVS starting Monday and Target beginning Aug. 1.
The largest retailer in the nation will make it mandatory for customers to wear face coverings effective Monday.
Nearly 2.1 million workers filed first-time claims for unemployment in the latest week nationwide, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Companies struggling to hire before the pandemic are spending millions on fresh incentives. Their hiring capability hinges on unemployment, industry changes, employees’ feelings about safety, and President Donald Trump’s aggressive and erratic immigration policies.
Federal recommendations meant to keep meatpacking workers safe as they return to plants have little enforcement muscle behind them.
More than 2.4 million people applied for unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the coronavirus outbreak.
Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus.
A tourist from New York was arrested for allegedly violating Hawaii’s traveler quarantine after he posted on Instagram photos of himself sunbathing and carrying a surfboard, state officials said.
Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, have already put similar systems in place.
Hiking to the Hollywood sign and hitting the links is being allowed Saturday as the California county hardest hit by the coronavirus cautiously reopened some sites to recreation-starved stay-at-homers.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened Saturday to pull the company’s factory and headquarters out of California in an escalating spat with local officials who have stopped the company from reopening its electric vehicle factory.
Under Utah’s phased reopening plan, hair salons, gyms, restaurants and bars were allowed to reopen Friday.