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...Last year, California passed a law that raised the bar for companies seeking to justify their use of contractors....
...Mr Gerard moved to the asset management arm of New York Life Insurance company from Mastercard....
...Qualcomm’s annual general meeting is on March 6....
...At Nestlé, group general counsel Ricardo Cortés-Monroy says the company is particularly vigilant about modern slavery after it uncovered incidents of forced labour in its supply chain in Thailand....
...“If the goal is to do bad things, automated systems and algorithms could help you do bad things faster,” says John Salch, technology leader with PROS Holdings Inc, a Houston-based pricing software company...
...“My role has been that of general contractor, with the CEOs of Berkshire’s subsidiaries doing the real work as subcontractors.”...
...From 2018, they will also attract employer national insurance....
...Some companies have taken action, including BAE Systems, the defence contractor, and Man Group, the hedge fund manager, which declared a pay freeze last month....
...This will apply in future to schemes covered by our general anti-abuse rule too. If people feel they’ve been wronged, they can of course go to court....
...He will begin a three-year term at the start of May, replacing Anthony Zinni, the retired Marine general, whose term is coming to an end. Mr Chertoff has been a member of BAE Inc’s board since 2010....
...(Financial Times) BBA considers banned banker register: Anthony Browne, BBA’s new chief executive, confirmed that a general register for bankers was one of the measures under debate to give an independent...
...Derek Simpson, Unite joint general secretary, on Thursday attacked Aviva’s planned job cuts, saying they would “cause alarm across the insurance industry”....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...General Dynamics said quarterly profit rose 42 per cent, and while the defence contractor projected lower full-year earnings and the stock rosse 0.3 per cent to $79.05....
...True to his school A school in east London is celebrating the largesse of an alumnus who just happens to be the boss of the world’s biggest insurance company....
...Duncan, UK Leonie Kerswill: The proposed new rules apply to managed service companies, which are effectively umbrella type organisations that pull together a number of contractors....
...Bill Lockyer, the California attorney-general, told an American news programme that he had “enough evidence to indict people both within HP as well as contractors on the outside” following revelations that...
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. Role reversal After years of serving as a top consultant to the world’s largest media groups, Michael Wolf is joining one....
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