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...wage rates for cash ops employees range from a minimum of $10.85 to $12.07 per hour effective June 20 of this year, up from the current $9 wage. Wages increase from $12.25 to $13.47 in the final year of the contract, depending on job classification and length of service...
...contract collapsed a two-tiered system of wages into a single system, and raised wages for all but one class of workers—those who have worked for less than one year above the level of the living wage established by the city of Cambridge...
Such decisions, while dependent on the language in each contract, seem to mark a trend by courts to treat digital and electronic uses of existing works as entirely separate creations. "The Internet is really a new animal in terms of efficiency, speed and breadth. Courts do not easily embrace Internet uses in contracts written before its invention," says Lloyd Weinreb, a professor at Harvard who teaches intellectual-property...
Disney settled lawsuits with the Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella actresses. But it won several cases against orchestras and music publishers who tried to block the use of such compositions as Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in videos of Fantasia without additional compensation. The different decisions hinged on specific contract language, but also mark a tendency of some courts to safeguard the rights of individual creators more zealously than those asserted by sophisticated entertainment companies...
When his manager came in to report yet another mechanical breakdown in the factory, New Delhi businessman Arun Goel broke down himself. His head throbbed unbearably as he fretted in the sweltering heat about power outages, missed deadlines and looming contract commitments. Seeing his distress, a friend handed him a glass of water and a small, yellow pill. The businessman swallowed. "It was like magic," Goel says. "Within 15 minutes, I had calmed down and was feeling optimistic that things would work...