The wheel is coming full circle? Looks like. The reputation of Indians as computer whizzkids has received further boost with an advertisement in UK saying Indians are preferred. But the job ad has kicked up a storm. The ad on www.jobsite.co.uk read: “Minimum six years of experience in IT... The person should be a UK citizen with security clearance from the UK Government. Preferably of Indian origin.” It was for a Bristol-based job, carrying a salary of £38,000. “I’m not knocking the workers from India at all – they are highly skilled and can do a good job. It’s the...
As a 21% cut in Medicare payment rates to doctors took effect Monday, eight of the 15 patients on Dr. William Schreiber's schedule are on Medicare. "I'm stuck," he said. "I have to see them. I don't have a choice" said Schreiber, a primary care physician based in North Syracuse, N.Y. "It's not a case of closing my doors to Medicare to get back at someone for cutting my salary. It's a case of economic survival." Shreiber's eight patients are lucky, for now. Many doctors around the country are either not accepting new Medicare patients or dropping their Medicare patients...
American David Levy, who runs a factory making electric cables in Dongguan, has witnessed the generational shift in China's work force. He described the first waves of migrants, who planned to send most of their money home and eventually return to their village to build a house. "Fifteen years ago, the expectation was: a place to work, a salary and then they didn't care much about anything else. Life was just going to suck for a couple of years," he said. Photos of his factory workers from five years ago document the generational change. None show workers with the wild...
Belaboring the obvious: Young men look up to sports heroes; fatherless boys face myriad social, cultural and economic barriers that many never overcome. Those realities collided when the New York Jets fronted newly acquired Pro Bowl cornerback Antonio Cromartie, late of the San Diego Chargers, $500,000 of his $1.7 million salary for 2010 so he could pay current and overdue child support. Mr. Cromartie has seven children by six mothers in five states. Last summer, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported his oldest child is no more than 5; he was neither married nor engaged to any of the mothers; and...
After yesterday's call by two German politicians that Greece sell off islands, historic buildings and artworks before receiving aid, the German tabloid Bild has written an open letter to the Greek prime minister George Papandreou: Dear prime minister, If you're reading this, you've entered a country different from yours. You're in Germany. Here, people work until they are 67 and there is no 14th-month salary for civil servants. Here, nobody needs to pay a €1,000 bribe to get a hospital bed in time. Our petrol stations have cash registers, taxi drivers give receipts and farmers don't swindle EU subsidies with...
ATHENS—The Greek government has decided to move ahead with steep cuts in civil service salaries and entitlements, as well as raising Greece's sales tax by two percentage points, a government official said Wednesday. The measures, decided at a cabinet meeting earlier in the day, effectively include slashing one month's pay for public-sector workers by cutting 30% of their current Christmas, Easter and holiday bonuses, the source said. Greek civil servants get an extra salary at Christmas and another through bonuses during the Easter holiday and the month of August. "The measures are expected to yield the state more than €4...
Legacy journalism is seeing some hard times, as the situation at ABC illustrates: its news division has announced it is going to close all of its brick and mortar bureaus around the nation (except the one in Washington DC) and will cut half of its domestic correspondents. Those who are left will be asked to work out of the local ABC affiliates. [ABC News President David] Westin said the network would cope with the reduced manpower on breaking news stories by hiring freelance crews and making use of its expanded team of digital journalists, staffers who would be able to...
As North Highline fire chief, Scott LaVielle oversees two stations and 35 employees and last year earned more than Gov. Chris Gregoire. LaVielle's pay of $186,370 even outpaced the salary of Seattle Fire Chief Gregory Dean, who made $173,709 for managing 32 stations and 1,155 employees. Now, as LaVielle prepares to leave the job, he is set to receive more than $300,000 under a severance package that includes one year's pay plus about $115,880 for unused sick leave, vacation and compensatory time. David Lawson, a former North Highline fire commissioner and now chief financial officer of Federal Way-based South King...
General Motors Co. CEO Ed Whitacre will receive a salary of $1.7 million this year, plus stock awards that will bring his total pay package to $9 million at a later date, the automaker said Friday. In a surprise announcement, GM also said former CEO Fritz Henderson has been rehired as a consultant. Henderson, who was forced out of the job in December, will work 20 hours a month and will be paid $59,090 a month, the company said.
Greek fuel supplies run dry as strike over harsh austerity measures bites Published Date: 20 February 2010 By MARGARET NEIGHBOUR PETROL stations ran dry in Greece yesterday as a customs strike over government austerity measures began to bite. Customs staff initially walked out for three days on Tuesday over salary freezes and cuts in bonuses. But their union announced on Thursday three 48-hour rolling strikes that will keep customs offices shut until next Wednesday, when all workers are being asked to join a general strike. The customs walkout has hampered imports and exports, but the supply of fuel has been...
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