LONDON -- Tesco boss Dave Lewis will step down next summer after declaring the turnaround of the UK’s biggest retailer complete, handing over to Ken Murphy, a former executive at health care group Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Our company is losing money due to poor market conditions. We’re thinking of implementing a compulsory redundancy program to cut our manpower costs. Before we finalize everything, please give me your thoughts on other options that we could take before we implement such plan of cutting our manpower size. We’d like to find out if we missed on other worker-friendly alternatives. -- First Samurai.

TWO LEGISLATORS filed a bill that seeks to establish an office to help persons with disabilities (PWDs) find jobs.

EDUCATION research firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) said it found graduates of the Ateneo de Manila to be the “most employable” among students of Philippine universities.

DETROIT -- General Motors Co and the union that represents its 48,000 striking hourly workers in the United States have made progress in talks toward a new labor deal but are grappling with issues over the pay and job security of newer and temporary workers, two people familiar with the talks said on Wednesday.

SMITH & WESSON parent American Outdoor Brands Corp on Tuesday failed to win majority support for its rising executive pay, according to a transcript of the gunmaker’s annual meeting.

We’d like to know your opinion about the style of our human resource department in dealing with workers. It is excessively pro-management does not sufficiently look after the interests of workers. As an example, new employees are required to spend a total of nine months before they assume regular employment status. The first three months are spent for supposed training, in addition to six months of probationary employment. Rather than attend formal classroom training, the employees are required to study on their own, pass a written examination and submit a progress report to HR. How do we manage this kind of work environment that appears to be against the workers’ interests? -- White Lily.

TRADE SECRETARY Ramon M. Lopez said he supports a separation pay provision in the proposed Security of Tenure (SoT) bill even in case of resignation, expanding the benefit to cover more forms of worker departure.

WALMART Inc. likely discriminated against 178 female workers by paying them less, denying them promotions or both, because of their gender, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in memos seen by Reuters.

THE CHIEF technology officer of United Technologies Corp. (UTC), Paul Eremenko, has stepped down, just under two years after moving to the US conglomerate from Europe’s Airbus.

THE STRIKE against General Motors Co’s US operations has led to a parts shortage, the automaker said on Wednesday, and as a result it announced the temporary lay-offs of 1,200 workers at its Oshawa assembly plant in Canada.

SAO PAULO -- Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday announced a 1 billion reais ($243.29 million) expansion at a plant in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, joining Volkswagen and General Motors in new investments in the region.