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Many staffers who worked in Donald Trump’s first administration realized the need for an attorney when they found themselves before congressional committees and grand juries, NBC News reports. Former senior administration officials and veteran Washington advisers are warning incoming administration staff members to weigh the threat of an expensive legal defense and consider purchasing a form of legal insurance that would provide them a lawyer if needed. In a cautionary move, Trump’s transition has briefed some incoming administration staffers on the need to price and buy professional liability insurance, according to sources. “You need legal representation if you’re facing people who have the arms of the government at their disposal,” said a former White House official. “It’s very intimidating when you don’t have people on your side to tell you what you can do and what circumstances you might be walking into.”
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Working from home is creating a generation who are "not doing proper work," says Lord Rose, the former boss of Marks and Spencer and Asda. Lord Rose told BBC Panorama that home working was part of the UK economy's "general decline" and employees' productivity was suffering. His comments come as some companies call time on remote working. Amazon, Boots and JP Morgan are just some of the businesses which now require their head office staff to be in every day. Lord Rose said: "We have regressed in this country in terms of working practices, productivity and in terms of the country's wellbeing, I think, by 20 years in the last four." In a December 2024 survey by the Office for National Statistics, 26% of people said they had been hybrid-working in the prior seven days, while 13% had been fully remote and 41% had been fully office-based (the remainder were not working at the time). Work-from-home expert Prof Nicholas Bloom says that while fully remote work can be "quite damaging" to some workers' productivity, spending three days out of five in the office was as productive as fully office-based work overall.
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Reports that Germany's Commerzbank is considering cutting thousands of jobs as it contends with an unwanted advance from Italy's UniCredit have unsettled staff, a senior trade union official has said. Frederik Werning, a Verdi trade union official and a member of the supervisory board at Germany's second-largest lender, said rumoured redundancies reported in the Financial Times on Saturday, citing two sources familiar with the matter, had caused "uncertainty among employees." The union's "absolute priority" was to "consistently represent and defend employees," Werning said.
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Middle East
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in Saudi Arabia has completed the final phase of its 'Professional Verification' service, which now covers 160 labour-exporting countries. This initiative, part of the 'Professional Accreditation' programme, aims to ensure that expatriate workers possess verified academic qualifications and practical skills before entering the Kingdom. The service targets highly skilled professions, aligning workers' qualifications with their expertise using established standards. The ministry has included 1,007 professions in this plan, focusing on groups 1-3 under the Saudi Unified Classification of Professions, such as engineering and health. The goal is to regulate the local labour market and enhance productivity levels across the workforce.
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