Goldman Sachs wants to train 1,000 employees in ‘mental health first aid’ by 2024 | Business Travel Will Never Bounce Back To Pre-Pandemic Levels, Studies Say | Marine Le Pen poses a greater threat than Giorgia Meloni

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Goldman Sachs wants to train 1,000 employees in ‘mental health first aid’ by 2024 - Fortune

It’s not uncommon for employers to offer training in first aid through programs like the Red Cross, where workers are taught essential life-saving medical skills needed in emergencies. But what if companies also trained workers in mental health first aid?

It’s an effort Goldman Sachs is pursuing. The investment banking giant rolled out its Mental Health First Aid program in Europe in 2019, expanding to Asia in 2021 and the U.S. in 2022. Since then, over 500 employees have become certified as “MHFAiders,” as the firm calls them. It now aims to double that number to 1,000 by the end of 2024.

“Our people have really recognized the importance of this program across various levels,” says Jacqueline Arthur, Goldman’s global head of human capital management. “We wanted to make sure individuals on our floor are able to help identify and support mental health considerations.”

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Business Travel Will Never Bounce Back To Pre-Pandemic Levels, Studies Say - Forbes

After several years of hand-wringing and magical thinking, travel industry analysts are finally saying the quiet part out loud: Business travel will never be what it was before the pandemic.

“Brands that are hoping for a business travel ‘return to normal’ will not see one,” concludes a recent recent Morning Consult report. “Overall, the share of U.S. adults who say they travel for business is now 18 percentage points lower than it was in a typical pre-pandemic year.”

High-frequency business travelers have showed the biggest decline. The portion of those taking three or more work-related trips per year has shrunk by 11%. Even casual business travelers who only take one or two trips per year is down 7% since 2019.

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Marine Le Pen poses a greater threat than Giorgia Meloni - The Economist

When Giorgia Meloni took over as Italy’s prime minister in October 2022, Europe’s liberals trembled. Her party, the Brothers of Italy, has roots in post-war neo-fascism, and her electoral pitch, promising a clampdown on illegal immigration, promised uncompromisingly hard-right politics. A year on, the pragmatic Ms Meloni has not turned out to be the disruptive force some feared. Which makes centrists in neighbouring France worry that this could help Marine Le Pen.

France is not due to hold a presidential vote until 2027. But Ms Le Pen has twice made it to the run-off, each time to be beaten by Emmanuel Macron. The constitution forbids him from standing for a third consecutive term. Already, between 2017 and 2022, Ms Le Pen increased her run-off vote from 34% to 41%. Under France’s centralised presidency, the possibility of a Le Pen victory raises particular concern.

Ms Meloni and Ms Le Pen share more than hard-right rhetoric. Like Ms Meloni, Ms Le Pen has tried to distance her party, now called National Rally (RN), from the thuggish discourse of its former self: in her case, the National Front. Unsavoury characters still move in her circle. But Ms Le Pen has promoted the more respectable-looking among them, notably Jordan Bardella, a 28-year-old Euro-deputy who now runs her party. She has also ditched some of the party’s most Eurosceptic positions, including a past promise to take France out of the euro, which proved unpopular.

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Alexei Navalny’s lawyers are arrested - The Economist

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s best-known opposition leader, has been in captivity for more than 1,000 days, and in solitary confinement for 224 of them. He was denied medical treatment when ill, has been refused visits by his family for more than a year and is not allowed to make telephone calls. Yet Mr Navalny, ever stoical, has described his imprisonment not as martyrdom, but as a nuisance and a challenge that needs to be overcome.

The challenges continue to mount. In August Mr Navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison for “extremism” on top of the eleven-and-a-half years he was already serving for “fraud”. But even then he continued to communicate with his supporters and to haunt Vladimir Putin, whose thugs tried to poison him in 2020 and then subjected him to torturous conditions in jail when he returned to Russia the following year after being treated in Germany. Mr Navalny’s rare appearances in courts (mostly via video link) have turned into political speeches, and visits by his lawyers have kept him in touch with the outside world. “His voice from behind bars sounded unbearably loud for Putin,” Leonid Volkov, Mr Navalny’s chief of staff, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) from Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital.

So Mr Putin decided to turn down the volume, and to deprive Mr Navalny of his last channel of communication. On October 13th three of Mr Navalny’s lawyers—Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser (pictured) and Igor Sergunin—were arrested and accused of “participation in an extremist community”; that is, of passing Mr Navalny’s words to the outside world. Olga Mikhailova, another of his lawyers, had left the country by the time her offices were raided.

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