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Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe have settled a class action case alleging they conspired to hold down salaries of over 65,000 employees.
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Gothenburg -
In hopes that it will cut down on sick leave, boost efficiency, and ultimately save Sweden money, municipal staff in Gothenburg will experiment with six-hour full-pay workdays.
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Milan -
Italy will cap salaries at some of the country's biggest public companies, the new government of 39-year-old Matteo Renzi announced on Friday, though some major groups will be exempt.
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by AFP
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London -
Far from the astronomical incentives accorded to a select few at Britain's banks, clothes-to-food retailer John Lewis Partnership is paying all its staff an annual bonus worth 15 percent of their salaries, earning praise for its co-operative structure....
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by Mathieu Gorse (AFP)
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London -
The Bank of England said Thursday it was consulting on recovering bonuses paid to bankers in the event of misconduct, with such a mechanism possibly in place as soon as 2015.The BoE said the move was aimed at maintaining financial stability after banks...
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by AFP
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Barclays <BARC.L> paid almost 500 staff more than 1 million pounds ($1.67 million) last year, prompting criticism that pay is still too high and that banks have not changed their w...
In the Media
by Matt Scuffham and Steve Slater (Reuters)
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Washington -
The International Monetary Fund came out Wednesday in support of the fight against income inequality, with Fund economists saying income redistribution efforts can strengthen economic growth.Plunging into a debate over the gap between rich and poor tha...
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New York -
The new General Motors boss, Mary Barra, will earn a total pay package of $14.4 million this year, 60 percent more than her male predecessor, the automaker said Monday.Feminist organizations were outraged late last week after US media reports said Barr...
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by AFP
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New York -
It wasn't a good thing to have three men skip out on a bill, but it was even worse when waitress Suzanne Parratt was fired for refusing to pay that bill.
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Gary Fung of Vancouver built IsoHunt about 10 years ago, and since then it has become one of the top places to find links to torrent files online.
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Naples -
A teen in east Naples, Florida, thought he was doing a good deed for a few people, but he ended up getting into trouble, and going behind bars on Tuesday.
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The cast members of "Real Housewives of New York" have signed a contract with Bravo, and they will receive modest pay increases as well as budgets for makeup and hair.
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A Norwegian economist thinks that people who are overweight should pay more money for their flights than fliers who are skinny.
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Harvey Weinstein, a proponent of Obama and an Oscar-winning producer, said that he has plans to push for legislation that would make websites pay for linking to news articles.
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On Friday, France's lower house voted to fully reimburse all abortions, as well as making contraception free for minors.
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Brainiacs From Mars is a company that pays homeowners' mortgages but the catch is that they will paint the homes, turning them into giant billboards.
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Cagliari -
Around 100 workers in the only Italian coal mine have barricaded themselves in, armed with explosives, seeking reassurance their jobs will continue.
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Lusaka -
Miners working at Collum coal mine in Zambia, yesterday killed a Chinese supervisor and seriously wounded another over a pay dispute.
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On Tuesday officials in the US announced that two poker websites will be paying over seven million dollars in a US settlement.
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Thousands of bus drivers in London are intending to go on strike for twenty-four hours on June 22 in a dispute over pay during the London 2012 Olympics. The action is being organized by the Unite union.
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An agreement between broadcast radio and performers marks the very first time that performers will get paid when their songs are played on the airwaves.
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A survey published by the public theology thinktank Theos shows that the majority of Britons think that taxpayers should not have to cover the cost of the Pope's visit which will begin next week.
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The ultimate multi-tasking platform for people with multiple social networks, HootSuite, has finally rolled out their payment plans for both new and old users.
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Rupert Murdoch has announced a “pay wall” for Google will be going up around News Corp’s websites. This follows previous statements regarding news aggregation sites like Google and Microsoft News, which Murdoch has dubbed freeloaders.
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Washington -- General Motors Co. pays back $1 billion and $192 million respectively to U.S. and Canada. The automaker owes $52 billion, $6.7 billion of that figure is from TARP and $1.4 billion to Canada.
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Those companies that have received assistance from the US Government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will now have the level at which they set the compensation for their top executives decided by a newly appointed Washington official.
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The donation of a kidney to a loved one is normally in good faith, but New York Doctor Richard Batista is demanding that his ex-wife pays up for a kidney that he donated to her.
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Several hundred campaign workers protested outside an Indianapolis Obama campaign office demanding the full pay that’s due to them. The workers became angry and police were called in to control the crowd.
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There is good news for Ford Motor Co. hourly and salaried workers in the U.S. and Canada because the company is awarding bonuses to them even though the auto maker continues to lose money.
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Time Warner is going to test a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet that will charge users based on how much they download, according to new reports. The move will no doubt leave millions of Internet users miffed at the idea.
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