Here are the business stories making the headlines in Scotland and the UK this morning.

Misery for air travellers

Passengers have been warned that flights in and out of the UK remain "significantly disrupted" following an air-traffic fault on Monday.

Despite the issue being resolved within hours, Heathrow Airport said its schedule was still affected.

Some airlines issued similar warnings, with easyJet telling customers some services would be "unable to operate".

Hundreds of flights were cancelled due to the glitch, leaving thousands of people stuck at home and abroad.

The BBC says many holidaymakers described a nightmare Bank Holiday Monday of travel, experiencing hours-long waits for news of when they would get moving.

National Air Traffic Services confirmed the fault just after midday on Monday, before it announced at 3.15pm that it had identified and remedied the issue.

But it said it would "take some time for flights to return to normal", as it launched an investigation into what went wrong.

Barriers to net-zero goals

Surveys of the UK workforce have identified barriers to achieving net-zero goals.

A study by trade union Prospect found that more than a third of people reported specialist tasks were being assigned to untrained staff due to a lack of expertise - with particular shortfalls in the environmental sector.

And 37% of respondents identified government policy as the main blocker to achieving net-zero emissions - with economic factors, reluctance to change, and limited resources also cited as barriers.

Energy Voice says that low pay was also identified as a major obstacle to attracting talent.

Meanwhile a survey by Save Money Cut Carbon, a firm which helps businesses tackle sustainability issues, found that nearly one in five UK employees would now actively refuse to apply to join companies that were not truly sustainable.

LNG workers could strike

Workers at two large liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants in Australia operated by Chevron are set to go on strike next month.

This follows weeks of negotiations with unions over pay and working conditions.

Chevron told the BBC it will "continue to take steps to maintain safe and reliable operations in the event of disruption at our facilities".

The Wheatstone and Gorgon sites produce more than 5% of the world's LNG.

In the last week, wholesale gas prices in Europe jumped on concerns of a disruption to supply at Chevron and at another Australian LNG plant run by Woodside Energy.

Environmental rights for children

Children have the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and governments must urgently act to ensure this, the United Nations says.

In a new report, the UN Child Rights Committee says that climate change is affecting children's rights to life, survival and development.

It says young children are among the most vulnerable, yet their voices are rarely heard in climate change debates.

The BBC says Tuesday's report outlines new guidance for governments to follow.

Drawn up with the help of young people, it includes phasing out fossil fuels and switching to renewable energy.

Pay dispute at Scots factory

Workers have begun strike action at a Dumfriesshire meat processing factory over a pay dispute.

The Unite union said 180 production, distribution and maintenance staff had walked out at Browns in Kelloholm.

Unite said staff were being offered "poverty wages", but Browns said the request for £13 per hour was unviable.

Unite members rejected an 11.8% pay offer from the company.

The BBC says Browns specialises in the production and manufacturing of cooked and sliced meats for a large range of businesses, supermarkets and schools.

Evergrande shares plunge

Shares in embattled Chinese property developer Evergrande fell almost 80% in their first day of trading in Hong Kong for a year and a half.

The BBC says the shares have lost more than 99% of their value in the past three years as Beijing cracked down on property firms.

Evergrande is at the centre of a real-estate-market crisis threatening the world's second-largest economy.

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