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...That works out at about €695 per employee - up from €633 the previous year. Not every European nation is so afflicted; in parts of Europe, absentee rates are falling. But all told, absenteeism costs Europe tens of billions of euros annually. In many nations, employers cover the bulk of initial sick-pay costs, and then governments step in and pick up the tab. And as the economic crunch continues, both governments and corporations are watching their employees' health as carefully as their fiscal health - and trying to get staff to work at full capacity. But grand initiatives...
...Progress in combatting absenteeism has been erratic in much of Europe, where unions are powerful and the welfare state persists. In the Netherlands during the 1990s, the Dutch government shifted the bulk of the responsibility for the first year of a worker's sick pay from its own coffers to those of employers. Dutch companies, went the thinking, would thus police their workers' absences more carefully. It seems to have worked: one study by the Labor Force Survey shows absenteeism in the Netherlands fell about one-third between 2000 and 2002. Elsewhere, however, things have not changed. In Germany, employers...
This year’s winners will join the 236 Gates Scholars currently in Masters and Doctoral programs at Cambridge. They come from 54 countries outside of Britain, although the bulk of the scholars are from American universities...
University President Lawrence H. Summers sponsored the fair for the first time last year, covering the bulk of the expense while changing the event to target the broader University community...
This summer, she plans to research her Social Studies thesis on the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement on maquiladoras, low-wage multinational factories in Mexico. But the bulk of her summer will be spent at Goldman Sachs, where she worked last summer. Two years ago, her mother was injured in a hit-and-run car accident, and needs surgery on her dislocated eye she cannot afford. Hernandez wants to chip...