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Josh Gad revisits beloved movie franchises via their casts in “Reunited Apart,” streaming on YouTube. Gad has filmed four episodes so far, ranging in length from half an hour to nearly an hour, all available on his YouTube page. Episodes include reunions with the casts of “The Goonies,” “Back to the Future,” “Splash”  and “Lord …

I own a small insurance company, and I need to hire two new employees with the proper license and experience. I have no idea how to find potential new employees, and I can’t afford to pay an agency. My office is in the Bronx, so it might appeal to those who are afraid to work …

An Amazon warehouse worker says he was suspended after handing out flyers encouraging colleagues to join a union. John Hopkins’s account of his May 2 suspension from Amazon’s DSF4 facility in California is the latest example of the e-commerce giant allegedly cracking down on critics during the coronavirus pandemic. Amazon told Hopkins he was sidelined …

Tribune Publishing and The Chicago Tribune Guild, the union representing its newsroom employees, have reached a tentative agreement to furlough 160 editorial staffers for one week in the months of May, June and July, while postponing discussions of longer-term furloughs until at least the end of July. The union tweeted the terms of the tentative …

Welcome back to Bel-Air. Will Smith, 51, brought back the cast of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” for his Snapchat show “Will From Home” on Wednesday and Thursday. Former castmates Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton Banks), DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jazz), Tatyana Ali (Ashley Banks), Karyn Parsons (Hilary Banks), Daphne Maxwell Reid (Aunt Vivian) and Joseph Marcell (Geoffrey) …

The coronavirus lockdown has artists so bored that Noel Gallagher, former Oasis guitarist and one half of rock music’s most contentious sibling rivalry, is leaking his own rough cuts. The frontman of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, since the band he shared with brother Liam Gallagher split in 2009, revealed the news on his Twitter …

Whole Foods is reportedly using an “interactive heat map” to monitor its stores and flag locations that are at risk of unionizing. The Amazon-owned supermarket chain — whose 510 stores employ 95,000 nationwide — scores each of its stores on a number of factors, including employee “‘loyalty,’ turnover, and racial diversity” according to Business Insider, …

Louis Tomlinson was not happy when Liam Payne prematurely revealed One Direction‘s plans to come together for a reunion. “I can’t say too much. It was actually, Louis told me off for revealing a bit of our plans the other day. So you’re going to have the group telling me off on the group chat,” …

More than two dozen US food industry workers have died from the coronavirus as scared shoppers plow through supermarkets with little regard for employees’ safety, it emerged on Monday. The United Food and Commercial Workers labor union says at least 30 workers in the grocery, meatpacking and food-processing industries have perished from COVID-19 in recent …

The cast of “That Thing You Do!” is reuniting to honor songwriter Adam Schlesinger — who died of coronavirus complications earlier this month — and raise funds for COVID-19 relief efforts. For the first time in 25 years, all four cast members of the fictional band The Wonders will gather virtually and share memories of …