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...Cruise alone plans to have 1mn robotaxis on the road by 2030....
...The concept behind a smart city is to use networked technologies to control traffic, allocate energy usage and dispense other services as well as to fight crime....
...Freeing the traffic north of Newcastle....
...Bunds should also benefit....
...Mr Gorsky told the FT that the BRT pledge would lead to specific policies for employee development and training, minimum wages in different regions and environmental commitments....
...The problem is greatest for defined benefit plans, which can only escape their guaranteed payouts through bankruptcy....
...child welfare....
...Mr Chiland, a former ecommerce manager, says: “Would I like someone to be covering healthcare, a retirement plan, other benefits? Yes, that would be nice.”...
...“I’d say there are some benefits. Ask me in 10 years.”...
...We fix our plans to fit the figures; we don’t fix the figures to fit the plans....
...To quote the American writer HL Mencken: “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” That’s populism....
...In Guatemala, where some employers have scant regard for workers’ rights or welfare, such signs of an employee-centred approach are striking....
...Alternatively, it could go into a pension plan....
...; that’s an idea that was incorporated into our package....
...In addition, the demise of defined benefit plans has contributed to the transformation of DC plans into the primary retirement savings vehicle for many Americans....
...Welfare reform makes work pay and encourages people off benefits. The strengthened competition regime has increased the flexibility of product and labour markets, backed by fair employment laws....
...For Americans, opening our borders to the world’s skilled workforce and education reform must be high on the policy agenda. So too must be finding a solution to our looming Medicare crisis....
...What are the risks that I as an employee, or I as a possible investor might be exposed to?...
...Employer groups such as the American Benefits Council accept that IBM?s action reflects an important shift. ?...
...Certainly the debate over benefit versus risk is perhaps heightened by Vioxx. But I’m an optimist. I think over the long term people have a better understanding of the benefit and risk....
...There is a huge variety of possibilities, from flexible benefit schemes to cash and bonus plans, and even equity participation mechanisms....
...s one of the benefits of globalisation.?...
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