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...greed is publicly frowned upon. But a series of scandals at some of the region's best-known companies has severely tarnished that image. Back in September, three top executives resigned from Norway's state oil company Statoil for their alleged part in arranging a $15 million "consulting contract" that police fear was used to bribe Iranian officials. Since early last year, Sweden's economic police have been investigating reports that some of the 421 store managers at Systembolaget, the country's state-owned liquor store monopoly, received bribes from liquor wholesalers to promote certain products. Now the threat...
...laid-off workers are members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and will be receiving severance packages that exceed the minimum thresholds set by the union’s contract, according to Adrienne Landau, president of HUCTW...
DePodesta replaces Dan Evans who had a year remaining on his three year contract...
...case resolved in December, Harvard had found McGarr Services Inc. was wrongly representing itself as two separate companies—McGarr and White Glove Inc. By doing so, McGarr had avoided the $50,000 contract threshold, above which companies must match their employees’ wages and benefits to those of workers employed directly by Harvard. The two contracts totaled more than $50,000 in work, but McGarr employees received $9.95 an hour in February 2003 rather than the union wage of $11.85 an hour...
Though it was an offhand comment, the idea that Bush might favor some kind of "contract" for gay couples--presumably a type of state recognition--is astonishing when you look back at the brief history of the gay-marriage debate. As recently as 1993, when the Hawaii Supreme Court issued the first appellate-court ruling in favor of gay marriage (a ruling that never took effect because Hawaiians voted to amend their constitution), even domestic partnerships were still considered radical. Only a few liberal municipalities offered them--Berkeley and West Hollywood in California, for example--and they didn't cover...