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...All too often, driverless cars get confused and abruptly pull to the side of the road or, worse, sit in the middle of an intersection until a remote employee can extract them....
...Many of those families Madam Deputy Speaker depend on Child Benefit. But the way we treat Child Benefit in the tax system is confusing and unfair....
...Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest maker of automotive batteries, has announced plans to mass-produce and supply sodium-ion batteries for EVs this year....
...And America publicly embarrasses itself yet again. Anything else? Reader, please tell us below....
...Chanje’s method centres on a “personal-development plan” which involves each employee defining their weakest characteristic — “Where do you suck?”...
...Alcoa plans to separate into two companies: a “downstream” specialised metals and products business, serving buoyant industries such as aerospace and automotive, and an “upstream” commodity business producing...
..., according to two people familiar with the carrier’s plans....
...“The whole electric vehicle sector is very slow,” says Al Bedwell, global head of powertrains with LMC Automotive, the consultancy....
...It expects emerging markets such as South America to be big sources of demand in the future....
...“The sound of clocks ticking is deafening. Courts have to be sensitive to how much of a cost benefit there is in requiring the exercise in two months rather than four.”...
...It has poured $12.5bn into Delphi during the past four years, mostly to bolster cash flow and support benefits for unionised workers, many of whom worked for GM before the spin-off....
...These motions include requests to continue the payment of wages, salaries and other employee benefits....
...The company plans to produce about 1,000 of its electric Smart cars this year....
...Like many US employers, the company had already closed the defined-benefit plans to new employees at the start of 2005, reflecting a wholesale move away from pensions that are tied to an employee’s final...
...The company said it was eliminating a further 10 per cent of its US white-collar staff by the end of January, and making further cuts in costs and employee benefits globally to cope with this year’s worse-than-expected...
...A new report by the Government Accountability Office says half of plan sponsors of all sizes have frozen their defined benefit plans....
...However, Dallas Salisbury, president of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, says the US credit squeeze complicates the matter....
...Consumers may also be rationally re-evaluating the costs that come with defaulting on different forms of debt, in the light of recent bankruptcy law reforms in America....
...As part of its own turnround plan, GM has bolstered its liquidity over the past 18 months with numerous asset sales, notably the disposal of a 49 per cent stake of GMAC, its financial services arm....
...Few doubt that private equity firms could raise the money to buy Chrysler, whose value stripped of its employee-benefit deficits is estimated by analysts at between $3bn and $7bn....
...It maintained its cash reserves at $23.6bn, unchanged from three months earlier, by transferring $3bn from an employee benefits fund....
...Several creditors have also expressed misgivings about the compensation plan....
...benefits....
...GM is also considering spinning off part of GMAC, its healthy financial services unit, as a way of shielding GMAC from the woes of its automotive operations....
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