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No pay cuts, layoffs but Mideast firm rethinks food security

by Associated Press
| April 22, 2020 4:03 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One of the biggest private employers in the Middle East has no plans to cut salaries or lay off any of its 44,000 workers, but the pandemic is changing its thinking about food security, retail and tourism.

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