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A New Wage Structure Will Rise The Cost of Garment Factory Owners
Jan 5, 2015Garment factory owners’ cost in Cambodia is expected to rise by nearly 20 per cent, as a new wage structure came into effect from 1 January. The new structure raises the minimum wage to US$ 128 per month from the earlier $100 per ...
Tags: transportation, seniority, Apparel
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European Stocks of Recycled Containerboard Are Now at Circa 550,000 Tonnes
Apr 10, 2014In March, continental buyers of recycled containerboard made some unexpected headway in offsetting €10/tonne of the €20/tonne increase that took effect last Autumn. That increase was so small that there was virtually no attempt to ...
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An in-Principle Agreement Has Been Reached Between Toll Group and TWU
Sep 6, 2013An in-principle agreement has been reached between Toll Group and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) in their enterprise agreement negotiations. The outcome is subject to final drafting and the support of the 10,000 impacted Toll employees. ...
Tags: Service
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Apple Is Said to Be "Aggressively" Hiring Specialists From Outside The Company
Jul 18, 2013Apple is said to be "aggressively" hiring specialists from outside the company to join its wearable "smartwatch" technology project, dubbed the "iWatch". According to the Financial Times, a senior team member had to be persuaded to stick ...
Tags: Apple, IWatch, Computer Products, software
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One-Third of Australian Chief Information Officers Received a Pay Rise
May 21, 2013MORE than one-third of Australian chief information officers received a pay rise in the past year, but overall they were less fulfilled in the role than their global counterparts, a survey found. The number of Australian CIOs who were ...
Tags: CIO, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
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Celik-Union's Request for a 42 Percent Pay Rise
May 14, 2013According to Turkey's Dogan News Agency, the collective labor agreement negotiations going on since January at Turkish long steel producer Kardemir have been concluded. After a meeting with Kardemir, Celik-Union's request for a 42 percent ...
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ACCC Issued Its Eighth Report Assessing Cross-Subsidy Between The Services
May 2, 2013The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued its eighth report assessing cross-subsidy between the services provided by Australia Post. Australia Post has a statutory monopoly over the delivery of standard letters ...
Tags: Australia Post
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AHMSA Have Accepted a 6% Increase in Pay Following Collective Contract Negotiations
Mar 18, 2013Reportedly, unionized workers at Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (AHMSA), the largest integrated steel plant in Mexico, have accepted a 6% increase in pay following collective contract negotiations. The agreement was negotiated ...
Tags: AHMSA, steel plant, steel
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Small Companies Are Increasingly Adopting Social Media for Business Purposes
Feb 27, 2013Small companies are increasingly adopting social media for business purposes, with uptake expected to increase massively over the next two years. That's according to a new study by IDC examining the evolution of social media use among ...
Tags: social media, SMEs employing, IT
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A Disgruntled Employee Conducted a Three-Year Campaign of Sabotage
Feb 6, 2013A disgruntled employee, angry at missing out on a pay rise, conducted a three-year campaign of sabotage against his company's computers by spraying the cleaning product Cillit Bang into the grills of the servers. Credit controller Edward ...
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Workers Could Strike During The Olympic Games in London
Dec 27, 2012Over 1,500 workers in the IT services and healthcare units of supplier Atos could go on strike during the Olympics after being offered a below-inflation pay rise. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is balloting workers after ...
Tags: IT services, healthcare, Olympics, IT
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Workers at Southern Copper Corp Plan Their First Strike in Four Years on December 24
Dec 20, 2012Bloomberg reported that workers at Southern Copper Corp, the largest producer of the metal in Peru, plan their first strike in four years on December 24 after wage talks broke down. Smelter union official Ricardo Juarez said that unions ...
Tags: metal, Southern Copper Corp, strike, wage talks, smelter union, copper, zinc
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Synergies From The Aperio Acquisition Remain at $25 Million by Year Three
Nov 28, 2012In a statement, Amcor said the sites were acquired as part of the Aperio acquisition and focused on non-core industrial and agricultural markets. Integrated Packaging is a privately-owned Australian business. It is a specialist ...
Tags: Amcor, packaging plants, agricultural market, packaging
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Amcor in August Reported a 15.7 % Rise in Net Profit to $412.6m for 2011/12
Nov 28, 2012The packaging company’s annual report showed he received $7.5m in the last financial year (2011/2012) compared to $6.4m in 2010/11. His base salary rose to $1.9m from $1.8m, while the rest of his remuneration package was made up of ...
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Ikea Will Make an Even Larger Shift to Renewable Energy by 2020
Oct 24, 2012OSLO, Norway --Ikea, which already has announced that it will shift to selling only LED lights by 2016, says it will make an even larger shift to renewable energy by 2020, according to a Reuters report. The Sweden-based home furnishings ...
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