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Since the beginning of April, the French first employment contract, an attempt to encourage the hiring of youth under 26 by reducing their employment protection, has been the law of the land. But if there is such a thing as a Pyrrhic compromise, President Jacques Chirac and the millions who have taken to the streets to protest the law have found it. The French President has asked employers not to apply the law in its current form, and the changes it will undergo are unlikely to make it better at creating jobs for the one-quarter of French youth...
...country to find a decent job that matches one's professional skills, offers a decent salary and stability, and respects one's social and human rights. I have a friend working as a system administrator for the state-owned Sberbank. They pay him $145 a month. He has no contract, no nothing. This is standard practice in Russia. So the French students' problems do not really apply here. Marianna Lorusso 28, producer for a youth-targeted satellite TV station, Rome I'd be willing to accept that it might take three or five years to find a secure...
...each of his subsequent releases has struggled to recreate that recording’s effortless songcraft, crack musicianship, and irrepressible joie de vivre. Prince’s high-profile disputes with the label executives at Warner Brothers Records, and his failed bid for release from his multi-album contract, are usually blamed for the precipitous drop in quality of his early nineties recordings. But the truth is, the Purple One just wasn’t destined to reclaim the Olympian heights he achieved on “Sign.” There have been some high points since then...
...panel featured reputed agent Scott Boras, who recently negotiated former Boston Red Sox centerfielder Johnny Damon’s four-year, $52 million contract with the New York Yankees...
...conversation touched upon the absence of a salary cap in baseball and the negotiation of famously lucrative player contracts. Boras is well-known for negotiating the highest paying contract in baseball history, a ten-year, $252 million contract for New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez...