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...Just $830mn of domestic institutional and banking capital in Africa is invested in climate solutions and clean energy, a fraction of the $1.4tn assets managed by local institutions including pension funds...
...world Labour market podcast: Rishi Sunak’s big fat Greek row Fiscal policy podcast: Autumn Statement Reaction Demand and supply: UK government to increase offshore wind subsidies by 66% Competition: Local...
...Aruna used to work as a security guard at a local college in Sierra Leone, but he was forced to flee after his wife was shot dead by security forces during an anti-government protest in Waterloo, once a...
...Schoolteachers in the NEU union in England and Wales will begin two days of strikes and BBC local radio journalists will walk out in the morning, potentially impacting Budget day coverage....
...The motto on San Francisco’s crest reads Oro en paz, fierro en guerra, Spanish for “Gold in peace, iron in war”....
...They did quite well in the local elections in May in urban areas particularly. And so they sort of slow build....
...But output per worker in the private sector was 14 per cent higher....
...After that, Cruickshank made his way to Aberdeen to work as a news reporter at The Press and Journal, which he left a year later during a workers’ union strike at the paper....
...It’s something the younger generation of Russian theatre workers anticipates too....
...Local 40 only opens applications every two years and receives 3,800 to 4,800 hopefuls for 200 spots, according to Bryan Brady II, director of training for Local 40 and Local 361, another ironworker union...
...A rural entrepreneur in central Hubei province told the FT that he laid off 20 of his 40 workers this year after the authorities told him to turn his nursery into paddy fields....
...One pathway is the dormant assets fund, a pot worth £880mn from financial assets including bank accounts, pension schemes and securities that have been untouched for a long period....
...The severance agreements prevent former workers from talking to the media — staff were told that by doing so they would sacrifice their share of the £36.5mn pot P&O has set aside to fund redundancy payments...
...A replica greeted me at the local airport, and the original is in the museum....
...The fund also called for a “renewed push” to complete the long-stalled Banking Union project....
...But officials in Brussels are already discussing ways of raising funds that would exceed those sums....
...He’s not afraid to take on his 670 active fighters, who are all contract workers. A 2021 survey by sports website The Athletic showed that only 6.5 per cent of MMA fighters don’t want to form a union....
...where trade unions are still powerful....
...Meanwhile, two deadly tailings dam failures in Brazil in recent years have caused pensions funds and other investors to prioritise worker safety within miners’ environmental, social and governance responsibilities...
...The Unite Here union pushed the casino to improve terms for 2,000 workers, even setting up a website detailing various instances in which the bank was alleged to have committed wrongdoing....
...Some analysts have advanced case-by-case justifications in support of stronger regulation applied to data privacy and security, the use of algorithms, minimum standards for gig workers, private education...
...And I’m allocating the first round of bids from the Levelling Up Fund, £1.7bn to invest in the infrastructure of everyday life in over 100 local areas....
...In 1989, the company formed a partnership with Coca-Cola to bring the drink back to China after a 40-year absence; in the mid-1990s, Swire and its partners invested $63m in a joint venture with the local...
...Yet they believe that the correct ratio of revenues passing through governments at the national and local rather than EU-wide level should be more than 40 to 1!...
...Workers in fields and food factories often have to accept temporary employment contracts with fewer rights and no security....
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