Industrial and organizational psychology

John Griffin is a senior producer for CNN’s flagship morning program “New Day”, according to his LinkedIn profile

About 45 percent of motorcycle couriers in Turkey started to work during the pandemic, and this trend led to growing problems and risks of occupational safety and health on the part of delivery employees over an increasing volume of orders and customer expectations of fast delivery, with sizeable numbers of them working in precarious conditions.

Ljubljana – Slovenia is among the European countries with the highest levels of stress at work. This is also one of the main reasons for missing work and short-time working, accounting for 50-60% of all lost working days, according to the career and employment portal MojeDelo.com.

About 140,000 workers per month will be covered by the support measures. There will be no one left affected by the restrictive measures who will not be helped.

This was assured by the Цaretaker Minister of Social Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Galab Donev on Nova TV.

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s Labour Inspectorate received 9,260 reports of violations in 2020, an increase of 28% compared to 2019. 6,867 reports were connected to employment relations, 2,043 in the field of occupational safety and health, and 350 reports were connected to social affairs. The inspectorate carried out 17,334 inspections last year.

Ljubljana – The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on business in Slovenia, but while the impact has not been adverse on all industries, the hospitality and tourism sectors have been hit hard. Fresh statistics show turnover falling by a third in hospitality last year as travel agencies and tour operators saw their revenue slashed by 77%.

Greek companies resisted the financial crisis due to the pandemic, as according to the data of the Hellenic Statistical Authority, they recorded a drop of only 5.4% in turnover in the first quarter. And this despite the universal lockdown due to the pandemic.

The Turkish economy saw a 49.9 percent jump in total turnover in March on a yearly basis, the country's statistical authority announced on May 11.

The index posted the most significant change in the industry sector, up 53.5 percent year-on-year in March, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) figures showed.

The total turnover of Turkey's economy jumped 22.2% year-on-year in February, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on April 13.

The total turnover index for the industry rose 17.1%, construction 8.3%, trade 28.2% and services 19.8% on annual basis in February 2020, according to TÜİK data.

Meanwhile, the total turnover rose 1.6% on monthly basis.

Bulgaria's government launches a new measure to support business in time of crisis. It is worth over BGN 78 million. From today until March 15, small companies with an annual turnover of over BGN 500,000 in 2019may apply for aid. The other requirement is that the business has a drop in turnover of at least 20% in 2020 compared to the previous year.