Restrictions on businesses have been lifted as vaccinations have been more widely administered, boosting hiring.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England
Massachusetts shoe company executive pleads guilty to embezzling $30 million
He embezzled the money from a nearly 140-year-old company by writing checks to himself from company bank accounts and transferring funds from company accounts to his personal accounts and to another person.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Biden touts restaurant relief program, orders tacos
The president visits a restaurant in Washington to highlight his administration’s $28.6 billion program to help eateries that lost business because of the pandemic.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Nation & World, News
U.S. supports waiving intellectual property rules on COVID vaccines
But opponents – especially from industry – say a waiver would be no panacea and insist that production of coronavirus vaccines is complex.
Posted inBusiness
Biden repeals Trump-era rule on gig workers
The Trump-era rule would have made it easier to classify workers as independent contractors.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Truck drivers for Shaw’s supermarkets return to work after brief strike
The 70 drivers and mechanics represented by the Teamsters went on strike on Monday; negotiations are set to resume Thursday.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Peloton recalls treadmills, halts sales, after a child dies, 29 others injured
The company says it will offer full refunds for the Peloton Tread+ treadmills, which cost more than $4,200.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not indefinitely
The oversight panel gives the company six months to specify how long the suspension of the former president’s accounts will last.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining
The Wrap: Openings, reopenings and renovations
Camden pop-up serves smoked eel dirty rice, Portland restaurants reopen, and a second helping of Maine recipes.
Posted inBusiness
G7 foreign ministers meet face-to-face after pandemic pause
There are differences over how to relate to countries such as China and Russia that will have to be smoothed out.