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Paternalism counts for as much in Europe as the paycheck-and can be almost as expensive. Fringe benefits, for example, add up to as much as 55% of the average salary, compared with only 16% in the U.S. Besides providing cradle-to-grave medical and pension plans, companies in Italy are also expected to provide such extras as summer camps at the shore, low-cost housing and nurseries for employed mothers. French companies with more than 15 employees are required by law to provide lunch at greatly reduced prices. A German is more likely to change jobs for a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Labor Omnia Vincit | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...week for experienced reporters; 61 U.S. papers pay higher salaries, including the Kenosha News, the Napa Register, the Pontiac Press, the Gary Post-Tribune. The Sun life-insurance policy pays only $500 per employee-not enough to cover burial expenses. The papers' nine-year-old pension plan works out to less than $25 a month, and there is no company medical plan. Nor is there a dues checkoff or any form of union security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stubbornness in Baltimore | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...main reason that the Dow-Jones averages have not kept pace with other stocks is that the large institutions, which account for 25% of the market's trading and deal mostly in blue chips, have been sitting on their cash. Surveying the mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies, E. F. Hutton & Co. found that, from January to April, 20 out of 25 of them sold more than they bought. In last week's surge, insiders spied a change in the institutions' attitude. Reported Bache & Co. to its customers: "The institutions, which were on the sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Back to the Blue Chips | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...burden of the $3-a-month premiums would be eased considerably by a basic 7% increase in old-age pension checks, retroactive to last January. The maximum monthly social security payment of $127 would immediately rise to $135.90, but everyone would get at least $4 more a month to spend. A simultaneous liberalization of social security rules would, among other things, bring self-employed doctors into the program for the first time-making them eligible for medicare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHAT MEDICARE WILL DO | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...enter New Archangel harbor, and then only with mischief in mind. Its captain, one Vasilii Golovnin, coveted the lucrative colony, which was in the hands of businessmen. In time, the navy pulled its rank and took control. Aleksandr Baranov, resident manager for 27 years, was fired without honors or pension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Misadventure | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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