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...The Meloni government said the quotas were set after talks with employers and unions to assess the genuine needs of the economy....
...“Most of us are still stuck in the 1960s,” says Nicolai Savaskan, head of the local public health department of Neukölln, a district of south Berlin....
...“There was an absolutely huge gap between living standards in Uzbekistan and Russia, and they were coming here in huge numbers. I was talking about it because it was the number one issue of the day.”...
...Companies need to pay to train workers they might not hire Some of this training used to come from unions, says Mr Harker, himself from a union family, the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters...
...In the strange inequality of the Soviet Union, that made him different.”...
...And the British members of the orchestra’s board of trustees? “We have a Russian chief conductor [Vasily Petrenko], which I don’t see as a problem,” he says....
...The issue has long been a bugbear of governments going back to Nicolas Sarkozy and French fixations with the Polish plumber....
...In the past, it focused on specific trades and professions, such as plumbers, solicitors and doctors....
...The company is understood to be meeting unions this week to discuss pensions. Mr Javid, who is now secretary of state for communities and local government, declined to comment....
...We have an example of this practice in the UK in the pensions industry, where employee trustees are elected to boards....
...In the end it is about the numbers. “[The government] talks about freeing [local pension schemes] to be more autonomous, and then they slap handcuffs on us.”...
...trope of “Polish plumbers stealing British jobs” wears thin....
...South Korea’s largest private equity fund and the country’s state pension fund are among the investors, so any local sensitivities — unions have already demanded guarantees over jobs — should be smoothed...
...The creation of a constitutional state from the rubble of the former Serb province has been guided by the international community, more recently by the European Union, which has run its Eulex rule of law...
...Inside the local leisure centre, the returning officer took the candidates and their agents behind a curtain to brief them about the impending declaration....
...“There’s a growing number of blue-collar workers on the site.” The company certainly talks big....
...Many of these people also take advantage of offshore tax havens to avoid reporting capital income to local authorities....
...Chilly in shorts The trustees of the splendidly-named Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 572 Pension Fund of Nashville, Tennessee are mad as hell....
...The suit, filed at the Tennessee Middle District Court by the Laborers’ Local 265 Pension Fund of Cincinnati and the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 572 Pension Fund of Nashville, claims the slice of securities...
...The local heroes of the games – athletes such as Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis – testified to a new, expansive view of Britishness. That was then....
...His departure was raised in the House of Commons and disquiet expressed by trade unions....
...But their van is emblazoned with the words “G4S – working with local policing” and the epaulettes on their uniforms carry the red, white and black logo of the private security company above that of Lincolnshire...
...“There has been building interest for five to six years and the pension finance initiative has accelerated it. It’s on a large number of trustees’ agendas,” he said....
...Someone opening an account with the Bristol Credit Union will deposit sterling and be credited with an equal number of Bristol pounds....
...Given that it is an expressed duty of trustees to act in the beneficiaries’ interests, they should be pursuing scheme consolidation, working in partnership with scheme sponsors and unions....
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