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Court ruling hurts asbestos workers
Oct 19, 2007 |
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Welsh factory workers who suffer scarring of the lung tissue from asbestos may have lost their right to file for compensation.
Verizon shareholders endorse execs' pay packages
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. shareholders have overwhelmingly endorsed the pay package for its top executives.
Year-end bonus is an incentive to cheat
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to look far these days to find examples of corporate scandals involving fraud. But Judi McLean Parks, the Reuben C. and Anne Carpenter Taylor Professor of Organizational Behavior at Olin Business ...
Reducing CEOs' option-based compensation decreases risky investments
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Since the recent bailout on Wall Street, the public has started to heavily scrutinize firms' large executive pay packages. This week, John White, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation ...
Japan facing vaccination lawsuits
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Feb 25, 2008 |
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The Japanese government is bracing for a flood of damage suits from hundreds of people who contracted hepatitis B through mandatory childhood vaccinations.
Computer giant Dell fined in Taiwan over consumer dispute
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Taiwanese authorities on Thursday fined US computer giant Dell one million Taiwan dollars (30,500 US) for customer rights infringements after it failed to honour an online price offer.
China bloggers fined for defamation: report
Dec 26, 2009 |
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Two Chinese bloggers were ordered to pay about 290,000 yuan (42,478 dollars) in compensation to the widow of film director Xie Jin for claiming he died in the arms of a prostitute, a report said Saturday.
New business theory shows compensation plans can make or break a firm
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Greed has been blamed for most of Wall Street's woes and the banking sector's recent collapse, but two professors at Washington University in St. Louis say envy is really to blame. And, they warn, envy is ...
Severity of Injury, Not Legal Fees, Drives Cost of Workers' Compensation
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The severity of injury and level of impairment -- not the workers' legal fees -- have the most effect on payout for workers' compensation claims among Illinois construction workers, researchers at the University ...
Google executives get one-dollar paychecks in 2008
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Google's co-founders and the California Internet titan's chief executive Eric Schmidt each took only a dollar in pay last year, a filing with US regulators indicates.
60 percent of nuclear cancer cases denied
May 13, 2007 |
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Compensation has been denied in 60 percent of 72,000 cases processed by U.S. regulators involving Cold War nuclear weapons workers stricken with cancer.
Intel CEO gets $12.4M in 2008 pay
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The value of Intel Corp. Chief Executive Paul Otellini's compensation package rose slightly to $12.4 million in 2008, a year in which the chip maker's profit was whacked by a global slowdown in personal computer ...
After error, Apple giving investors 'say on pay'
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Apple Inc. investors will get an advisory vote on executive compensation, the company said Monday, reversing an earlier announcement in which Apple said the "say on pay" proposal failed to get enough support at the ...
Researchers Unable to Agree on Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
Jun 30, 2008 |
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Studies exploring potential predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) following major trauma have resulted in varied conclusions. While a number of risk factors such as injury severity, demographic factors and compensation-related ...
Microsoft CEO Ballmer's salary up 4 percent in '09
Sep 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. raised CEO Steve Ballmer's salary by 4 percent at the start of fiscal 2009, a year in which the software maker's profit declined 17 percent as the economic meltdown decimated personal ...
