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Duncan Innes

YouTube - Everyone's talking Corporate Social Responsibility. - 0 views

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    How CSR works, why it works and what the future might be!
Duncan Innes

BBC - CBBC - Victorian Work Song - 0 views

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    Working conditions in Victorian times - labour intensive, poor conditions
Duncan Innes

Tesco launches four-hour shift system | UK news | The Guardian - 0 views

  • Tesco famously claims "every little helps" – now Britain's biggest private-sector employer is among the first to offer the option of working "slivers of time" to its employees.
Ben Hall

Power Balance admits no science behind wristbands - 0 views

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    This article is about a company that was selling a range of wristbands called "Power Balance" and claimed they give you a competitive advantage over other athletes by interacting with the body's natural energy flow. They paid top athletes including David Beckham and other celebrities such as Robert De Niro and Gerard Butler. However there's no scientific proof that they actually work, they still sell for around £30 and the company expects to turnover £35 in 2010, all for selling plastic wristbands!
Duncan Innes

Nokia 'considering move to Silicon Valley' | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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    Nokia's chief exec - who used to work for Microsoft is considering taking firm to US and a joint venture with Microsoft
Duncan Innes

YouTube - Milton Friedman - Greed - 0 views

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    Firms primary responsibility is to shareholders not to stakeholders or society at large.  Milton Friedman's seminal work was published almost 40 years ago. In "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits", Friedman argued that business "had no responsibilities other than to maximise profits for the shareholders".
Duncan Innes

YouTube - Walkers Crisps Clash of the Comics TV ad for Red Nose Day - 0 views

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    The win-win of CSR Charity Work
Adam Garrett

Money Loans - Accurate Financial Redemption To Tide Over Uncertain Monetary Woes - 0 views

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Duncan Innes

Here, there and everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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    has outsourcing peaked?
jackson cole

Small Bad Credit Loans.pdf - 0 views

  • Small Bad Credit Loans- You Get The Money Now And Need To Pay Back Only Slowly Going for a vacation trip to the hilly place for few days was an offer you placed before your daughters last time but you could not fulfill it due to lack of money. But this time they have reminded you of the old offer at the right time so as not to miss it. You have resolved to undertake the trip at any cost and you are exploring the flexibilities of finding an additional source of money. You realize that a loan that requires you to remit back the whole amount at a time will not suffice whereas you want the remittance at a slow pace. Small bad credit loans are your choice as it gives you flexible time for paying back the amount that too in installments. You are happy with its features as you can repay it without affecting your other routine expenses. You observe that speedy delivery of cash is the most attractive thing about the loan. It takes only a few hours to get the loan amount transferred into your bank account since you submit the application. Lenders have eliminated the tedious documentation and other paper works from the essential procedures. When you apply for small bad credit
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    Small bad credit loans are the ideal solution for poor credit people to meet your emergency expenses. With these loans salaried class people can acquire quick cash within few hours of application.
Duncan Innes

My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One - YouTube - 1 views

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    Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett talk about mobiles with fruit
Simon Brooks

Dispute over trade union rights in soap manufacturer - 0 views

  • manufacturer of household cleaning and detergent products
  • employs about 240 workers, of whom over 150 are union members
  • the enterprise has a relatively high union density
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  • A dispute has arisen within PZ Cussons Polska S.A. between the largest representative trade union, NSZZ Solidarnosc, and the company’s chief executive officer (CEO)
  • 50% of the workers are trade union members
  • five trade union organisations
  • membership is widely dispersed
  • Independent Trade Union of Chemical Workers
  • representing 15 workers
  • smallest union
  • largest union
  • Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity
  • over 80 workers
  • controversy has a long history
  • 2002 when a dispute arose over certain irregularities concerning the allocation of the employee benefits fund
  • trade unions only took collective action in relation to the dispute in 2003 when the premises was flagged;
  • ade union flag
  • management removed the t
  • trade unions appealed to the court
  • company’s management of obstructing trade union activity.
  • conflict escalated
  • company’s management decided to move the headquarters of the trade unions to space outside the premises
  • The unions once again appealed to the court to reverse this decision, but the court again dismissed the appeal
  • staged a protest
  • culminating point in the conflict occurred in June 2006
  • according to the unions
  • at CZ Cussons once again disregarded the preliminary social fund expenditures schedule.
  • remove the flags and transport them outside the company’s premises
  • A scuffle between the union activist and the security staff ensued, resulting in minor injuries to the former, according to trade union sources.
  • NSZZ Solidarnosc shop steward was dismissed from the company on disciplinary grounds.
  • not able to appeal against the decision within a statutory time frame.
  • management also tried to prevent the next union meeting from taking place and attempted to keep the dismissed union member off the premises
  • The trade unions claimed that PZ Cussons had clearly ignored Polish union law
  • The unions warn that they will fight the case until the company’s management reinstates the dismissed trade union member.
  • caused a dangerous situation and broke work regulations in his protest against the removal of the trade union flags from the premises.
  • car without permission
  • As this represented a gross abuse of an employee’s duties, the management agreed to the shop steward’s disciplinary dismissal. The case has since been sent to the labour court.
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    An example of a trade union dispute in a household cleaning and detergent manufacturer. Explains how the dispute came about as well as how it was resolved.
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Simon Brooks

BBC News - World Cup stewards walk out in pay strike - 0 views

  • South Africa's World Cup chief, Danny Jordaan, said it was "unacceptable" for the stewards to be trying to disrupt the games.
  • He said it was an "employer-employee wage dispute".
  • Protesting stewards in Durban told reporters they had received 190 rand (£17; $25) for their work, but they had been promised much more.
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  • The firm employing the stewards, Stallion Security, told AFP news agency that the workers had been "misled" by jealous commercial rivals who failed to get the World Cup tender.
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    This article highlights how employee action can cause potentially damaging consequences for businesses. The stewards walked out after they had been paid less than they were 'promised' - it emphasises the impact of poor employer-employee relations on business functioning.
Duncan Innes

It's partly women's fault that they're paid less - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Unfair pay: British women shouldn't settle for a 16.4 per cent gap Is this as good as it gets for working women? Those of us in full-time employment still earn 16.4 per cent less than men, and the gap is no longer narrowing, according to the “How Fair is Britain?”
  • It is the 40th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act.
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  • have a good d
  • And women share a guilty secret: it’s partly our fault that we are paid less. In my experience, among a number of areas of obvious male superiority (I don’t have space to catalogue areas of female superiority) is the ability to ask, in a straightforward manner, for more money. Men are much better at negotiating pay for two reasons: they have a healthy lack of embarrassment, and they tend to overestimate themselves
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    Reasons for the pay gap 40 years after the equal pay act
Duncan Innes

BBC News - UK unemployment total sees slight fall - 0 views

  • The overall picture remains one of a jobs recovery that is much more sluggish than after previous recessions, analysts say.
  • ear ago. This compares with the 1.7% rise previously reported for the thre
  • as up 2% on a year ago. This compares with the 1.7% rise previously reported for the three
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  • This compares with the 1.7% rise previously reported for the three months to August, but remains below consumer prices inflation of 3.2%
  • inflation
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    Analysis of Octobers unemployment data
Sian Whitlock

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Sports car firm starts relocation - 1 views

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    TVR factory relocation proposal
Duncan Innes

Kenya's flower industry shows budding improvement | Environment | The Guardian - 1 views

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    How ethical is your mothers day bouquet?
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