Hints and tips:
...For Wakim and others, all hopes now lie with Europe....
...The hum returned to the halls of Olympia last week....
...Mike Clancy, the general secretary of Prospect, the union representing UK civil servants and engineers, points out that remote working is not possible for everyone within an organisation, and risks reinforcing...
...He was run out of Stanford Law School in 1992 for yelling “Hope you die of Aids” outside a lecturer’s home, transferring to Harvard Law School....
...A visit to the office of James Ewins, an experienced family-law barrister in London’s Middle Temple complex, holds out some hope of a potential solution to the problems facing Ebrahim and the other women...
...The acquisition of Hotelbeds, which sells rooms to travel agents and tour operators, is an example of how private equity buyers have spotted this opportunity....
...I would have been asked a lot of uncomfortable questions if I hadn’t,” says Alexei, an employee in a state company in the Urals region of Perm. “But he isn’t doing what we need him to do....
...An employee at the Department of Motor Vehicles has a gambling habit — this is known in the security industry as an “inside threat”....
...I am today providing extra funding so that by 2020 every primary and secondary school in England will be, or be in the process of becoming, an academy....
...“It was a complex operation and, as you know, I’m not a journalist or an investigator or an attorney or a lawyer, but people from all these fields were required [to leak the files] . . ....
...Inside, I asked an employee if creationists ever took issue with its portrayal of life’s origins. She said yes, it happened sometimes, then lowered her voice to a whisper....
...Only last week, Willie Carson – champion jockey turned stud-owner and television presenter – told an interviewer, without irony or bitterness: “I still feel a servant to the aristocracy....
...It’s why we must end the cosy cartels of the way top pay is set in our economy. So every pay committee should have an employee on the board....
...The Case of The Man Who Died Laughing, by Tarquin Hall, Hutchinson, RRP£14.99, 320 pages Vish Puri, Delhi’s epicurean “Most Private Investigator”, is trying to find out how an apparition of the goddess...
...The company is considering bringing back an early retirement scheme that could cost as much as €150,000 to €200,000 per employee....
...On the second floor, there are typically four or five family bedrooms and servants’ quarters under the eaves....
...Dictating copy over the telephone to an operator in a remote call centre is inefficient. Most local advertisers are now semi-professional: estate agents, car dealers, local retailers....
...of an infant....
...Throngs of thirty and fortysomethings lumber through the drizzle to an agricultural hall outside Coventry. I pay the £11 entrance fee and once through the door everything changes....
...Such unprecedented tactics triggered rival conspiracy theories that a Taiwanese agent had grabbed the microphone to push its case – or a Chinese one to discredit its enemy....
...Similarly, a free agent who has turned themselves into a business may technically be an employee of that business, when in practical terms they are self-employed....
...And, in the quieter halls of the establishment, where senior civil servants, academics and military officers shared the disquiet that had given birth to the proposal, it aroused an indulgent smile....
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