Trade union's warning for North Lanarkshire Council over furlough scheme

asylum seekers, the local authority leader has said.Susan Aitken told the Record she was "as confident as I can be" the majority of Glaswegians still wanted to help refugees who were fleeing persecution in their home countries, following the stabbing incident that shocked the city.Council bosses are now pushing the Home Office in London - which controls the UK's immigration system - to make changes to the contract tendering process which sees private firms given responsibility for looking after

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Patients in hospitals across NHS Lanarkshire will again be able to receive visits from a loved one.Hospital visiting is now being re-instated in a staged approach.This comes after hospitals across Scotland had to take the exceptional step of stopping all but essential visitors coming into hospitals.Susan Friel, nurse director for Acute Services at NHS Lanarkshire, said: “Stopping hospital visiting was absolutely

“Thanks to the widespread implementation of the church’s Infection Control protocols, Catholic parishes will begin the resumption of public Masses and other communal activities from July 15.” Bishop Gilbert added: "The bishops are extremely grateful to all those who have worked tirelessly to prepare our parishes for public worship and to those who made their views known to their parliamentary representatives and the government on the subject of communal worship."While thanking the Scottish

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Leading trade union UNISON has urged care home bosses in Wishaw to “pay up now” to workers self-isolating with suspected Covid-19 who have been forced to survive on statutory sick pay of less than £96 a week.Many care homes and care-at-home service providers have failed to pay workers their full wages until they get the money up-front, despite the Scottish Government publicly stating funds would be available.Now the

Gogglebox, with her stint airing tonight, July 3. Speaking about the filming process alongside co-host Piers Morgan and her pal Judge Rinder on Wednesday's Good Morning Britain, the popular presenter said she was worried about the editing process.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.North Lanarkshire recorded its lowest level of weekly deaths in figures released last week at three – one of which occurred in the region’s care homes.A revision in the data provided by the National Records of Scotland shows that three deaths were recorded in North Lanarkshire for the previous week as well and not four as previously reported.As a result, there have been 263 deaths where coronavirus was listed on the

Good Morning Britain star said she is a huge fan of platforms like Twitter and Instagram and is used to being criticised, but that things have worsened of late.Writing in the Daily Mail, she said “there are times when even thick skin gets thinner”.Reid, 49, said the “viciousness” against her ramped up in response to her outrage about the death of George Floyd in the US and that she was told “to ‘shut up’ and ‘get in your kennel’.”The presenter was bombarded with sexist insults that she said made

New figures have revealed that nearly 40,000 workers in South Lanarkshire have been furloughed during the COVID-19 lockdown.And statistics from HMRC show the wages of nearly 100,000 jobs across Lanarkshire as a whole have been supported by the UK Government since the start of the coronavirus retention scheme.The scheme, along with the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), were announced as part of a package of support measures for businesses affected by the coronavirus