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☆ UK local election: Former PM Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Christian Edwards | Alex Hardie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station while trying to vote in the United Kingdom’s local elections after forgetting to bring photo ID – a requirement he introduced while prime minister. Polling station staff were forced to turn the former prime minister away as he tried to cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire on Thursday, PA media reported. New rules requiring photo ID to vote were introduced by Johnson’s Conservative government in the Elections Act 2022. Veterans minister Johnny Mercer apologized to Diver. “The legislation on acceptable forms of ID came out before the veterans ID cards started coming out in January this year.

Persons: Boris Johnson, Johnson, Adam Diver, Johnny Mercer, ” Mercer, Rishi Sunak Organizations: CNN, United, Johnson’s Conservative, Labour Party Locations: South Oxfordshire

☆ Employees think mental health is OK to discuss at work. But not everyone feels comfortable doing so, survey finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —World events, work problems, illness, financial issues — there are plenty of unhappy stressors that can harm an employee’s mental health. The most common response was “the state of the world” (68%), followed by “your job” (48%), “your finances” (45%), “your personal life” (41%), “your physical health” (40%) and “your mental health” (37%). “Employees who are less comfortable talking about their mental health at work are more likely to report feeling burnout and their mental health suffering because of work in the past year,” NAMI said. In response, “nearly half of employers have conducted anti-stigma campaigns to help employees feel comfortable utilizing behavioral health services,” Mercer said in its analysis. Such training can teach direct managers, executives and individual contributors how to identify signs that someone may be struggling with a mental health problem.

Persons: ”, Barb Solish, NAMI, ” NAMI, “, Mercer, ” Mercer, ” Solis Organizations: New, New York CNN, National Alliance, Mental, “ Employees, Employers, Mercer . Locations: New York, United States

Gavin Newsom last year vetoed legislation that would have decriminalized the possession and personal use of several plant-based hallucinogens, including psychedelic mushrooms. Colorado and Oregon have already decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms and establish regulated systems for therapeutic use of the substances. In California, San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Cruz have effectively decriminalized possession of psychedelic mushrooms, meaning a person cannot be arrested or prosecuted for possessing limited amounts of plant-based hallucinogens. California already has “a massive network" of underground therapists who provide psychedelic therapy, Wiener said. Touted as a mind-bending drug in the 1960s, psychedelic mushrooms have been used in religious or spiritual practices in some cultures for centuries and possibly thousands of years.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, Democratic Sen, Scott Wiener, Newsom, Wiener, Republican Assemblymember Marie Waldron, ” Wiener, Waldron, Juliana Mercer, she's, we'll, ” Mercer, psychedelics, Susan Sagy Organizations: Democratic Gov, Democratic, Republican, Drug Administration, Heroic Hearts, Marine Corps, U.S ., California Coalition, Psychedelic Safety Locations: SACRAMENTO, Calif, California, Colorado, Oregon, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, criminalization

☆ What to expect at work in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Another recent survey by consulting firm Mercer found that employers expect to promote just under 10% of their employees this year. Expect, too, to see a wider variety of employers offer more financial wellness benefits in 2024. “After three years of turmoil it finally looks like [work from home] has stabilized and 2024 will look a lot like 2023. Employees who can work a hybrid schedule are generally working from home roughly 30% of the week (or about 1.5 days), Bloom noted. For example, someone with a busy work schedule may opt to take them via text or chat on their phone on a Sunday morning, he said.

Persons: WTW, Mercer, ” Mercer, Rich Fuerstenberg, Emily Rose McRae, ” McRae, McRae, ”, Nick Bloom, Bloom, Anthony Reynolds, Reynolds Organizations: New, New York CNN, Gartner Inc, …, Stanford University, Employees Locations: New York

☆ De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Ben Sisario | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the Grammy Awards last month, the rap trio De La Soul was booked for the show’s 50th anniversary tribute to hip-hop, alongside more than two dozen performers. The timing was perfect, coming just a few weeks ahead of the long-delayed digital release of the group’s storied catalog. But the day before the ceremony, David Jolicoeur, who was known as Trugoy the Dove — and had long been public about having congestive heart failure — told his bandmates he was too ill to make it; Vincent Mason, a.k.a. Maseo, the group’s D.J., also had health problems. Another painful victory for De La Soul arrives on Friday, when the group’s first six albums will finally become available on streaming services after years of struggles with record companies that have kept that music — one of hip-hop’s most cherished and influential bodies of work — largely inaccessible to longtime fans, and invisible to younger audiences.

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