British government scraps planned rules on pay equality
Saturday, December 4, 2010 The British Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government has scrapped plans by the previous government to change the rules on equal pay between men and women. The previous Labour government included a provision in the Equality Act 2010—Section 78—to allow the government the option to introduce regulations that would require companies to publish details of the difference in pay between male and female employees. If the government had activated such regulations, they would have come into force in 2013. The current government have decided not to activate this requirement and instead will only ask businesses to provide this data voluntarily and will set an “aspiration” to dramatically increase the number of women in senior positions in business. Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat MP and coalition Equalities Minister, in announcing the plans stated that the government wishes “to move away from the arrogant notion that government knows best, to…
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Manchester City loans Joe Hart to Torino
Saturday, September 3, 2016 On Wednesday, English football club Manchester City F.C. announced that they had loaned their goalkeeper Joe Hart to Italian club Torino F.C. till the season end. Hart joined City from Shrewsbury Town F.C. in 2006. Since then, he has won four Premier League Golden Gloves for keeping most clean sheets in a season, which is a League record. In a decade at the Etihad Stadium, Hart has won two Premier League trophies, two Football League Cups and one FA Cup. Hart debuted for England at the age of 21, and has represented the country at UEFA Euro 2012 and 2016 and FIFA World Cup 2014. Signing the contract, Hart said, “I am very excited to compare myself in an important and beautiful League such as Serie A.” ((it)) Italian language: Sono molto felice di potermi confrontare in un campionato bello e difficile come la Serie A.…
Cosmetic Dentistry Options For Patients}
Cosmetic Dentistry Options For Patients by drshawnkeller There are many options available for people seeking to better their smiles. Depending on how much a patient wants to spend, procedures range from teeth whitening to full mouth reconstruction. Here is a list of the procedures available at most cosmetic dentists. Dental Bonding. Bonding can improve teeth that are broken, chipped, cracked, stained, or misalignment of teeth. Using the latest in tooth-bonding technologies, materials colored the same as your tooth are bonded to your tooth surface. Tooth whitening Whitening or tooth bleaching makes teeth brighter that have been discolored or stained with time. When done completely in the dental office, bleaching can be completed in around 1 hour. Alternately, the dentist may give you a bleaching system for use at your home. Enamel shaping Shaping involves changing the appearance of teeth by contouring or removing enamel. Often combined with bonding, this process…
Proper Financial Planning For Better Lifestyle}
Click Here To Know More About: Wealth Management Advisers Best Financial Advice Submitted by: John Don Though we should never encourage ourselves to borrow money from others there are times when we find that there are no other options apart from borrowing. Banks and financial institutions are always ready to provide us with all kinds of loans that would make our life easier but the fact is that taking loans without proper planning would make your life miserable and you would find yourself in greater problems. Proper financial planning is really important in todays world because the better we plan our finance, the better lifestyle we can live and enjoy. Borrowing money requires a lot of thought process because you also need to think of how you will repay the principal amount along with the interest. Many people feel that loans are the best way to tackle financial crisis but…
Adam Folkard and Nick Norton ready for more men’s softball
Monday, March 19, 2012 Hawker, Canberra — Coming off a national championship win for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) men’s open team in mid-February, Australia men’s national softball team representatives Nick Norton and Adam Folkard are getting ready for more softball later this year, including the Australian club championships to be held in Brisbane in June. Folkard and Norton have both won the World Championships and have each won a total of ten national championships with the ACT side. They are both named to the current men’s national team, which has roughly thirty players, and believe they are likely to survive the December cut down to eighteen players who will represent Australia at next year’s World Championship in Auckland, New Zealand. The World Championship is one of the two most prestigious available to male softball players. The other is the International Softball Congress, an event Folkard and Norton have both…
Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Russell Korus, Vaughan
Sunday, October 7, 2007 Russell Korus is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the Vaughan riding. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, Ontario Greens, as well as members from the Family Coalition, Freedom, Communist, Libertarian, and Confederation of Regions parties, as well as independents.
Wikinews interviews Mario J. Lucero and Isabel Ruiz of Heaven Sent Gaming
Friday, November 7, 2014 Albuquerque, New Mexico — Online entertainment is a booming market, and plenty of players are making their play; back in March of this year The Walt Disney Company bought the multi-channel network Maker Studios. What is web entertainment, and the arts therein? And, who are the people venturing into this field? Wikinews interviewed Mario Lucero and Isabel Ruiz, the founders of Heaven Sent Gaming, a small entertainment team. This group has been responsible for several publications, within several different media formats; one successful example was aywv, a gaming news website, which was #1 in Gaming on YouTube in 2009, from September to November; Heaven Sent Gaming was also the subject of a referential book, released in 2014, entitled Internet Legends – Heaven Sent Gaming. Contents 1 General questions 1.1 Influences 1.2 Religion 2 Media-related questions 2.1 Comics 2.2 Games 2.3 Music 2.4 Novels 2.5 Video 2.6…
US unemployment rate reaches 9.8%
Friday, October 2, 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country’s unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The US Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 263,000 jobs in September, with companies in the service industries — including banks, restaurants and retailers — hit especially hard. This is the 21st consecutive month of job losses in the country. The United States has now lost 7.2 million jobs since the recession officially began in December 2007. The new data has sparked fears that unemployment could threaten an economic recovery. Top US officials have warned that any recovery would be slow and uneven, and some have predicted the unemployment rate will top 10% before the situation improves. “Continued household deleveraging and rising unemployment may weigh more on consumption than forecast, and accelerating corporate and commercial property defaults could slow the improvement in financial conditions,”…
Bolivian troops told to seize natural gas fields
Monday, May 1, 2006 Bolivian President Evo Morales has ordered that all foreign-owned natural gas fields be turned over to the national government of Bolivia. President Morales signed a decree that orders troops to seize the fields “immediately” to ensure gas production. The decree also says that companies have 180 days to sign over their fields or leave the country. The fields are owned by such companies as the United States‘ Exxon-Mobil Corporation, Brazil‘s Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Spanish-Argentine Repsol YPF SA, and Great Britain‘s BG Group PLC and BP PLC. “The looting by the foreign companies has ended. We are not a government of mere promises, we follow through on what we propose and what the people demand. We want to ask (the Armed Forces) that starting now, they occupy all the energy fields in Bolivia along with battalions of engineers,” said Mr Morales after signing the decree. “The time…