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LOWER PAY INCREASES



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RATE of pay increases across the European Union (EU), and Norway, fell between 2002 and 2003, although Britain bucked the EU trend, said a report from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.…

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SMILE/CIVITAS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in Camden and Nottingham have been held up as good practice examples in the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport by the European Union’s (EU) SMILE project, which concluded last week at a conference in La Rochelle, France (27-28 May).…

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EUROSTAT ACCIDENT STATS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has called on the British government to spend more on the Heath and Safety Executive and local government workplace inspectors, following the release of a report from EU statistical agency Eurostat showing Britain suffering increasing rates of serious work accidents.…

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USA MONEY LAUNDERING REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

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WORK ACCIDENT STATS



BY KEITH NUTHALL
RELIABLE statistics are of course vital to any insurance company’s assessment of risk, and nationally produced figures in countries such as Britain and the USA can usually be counted upon in actuarial calculations. But what about comparing countries when managing international policy portfolios?…

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VAN BUITENEN SLATE



BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen will reveal a litany of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases when he releases his programme this month for the oncoming European elections. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen is publishing a book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’ on April 28, which will officially be his election manifesto.…

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PART-TIME WORK



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) survey concluding that part-time workers are less likely to report job-related health problems and are more likely to achieve a positive work-life balance is good news for UK companies. Indeed, the European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) report says Britain has the EU’s second highest proportion of part-timers – 25 per cent of workers in 2002.…

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PART-TIME WORK



Keith Nuthall
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) survey concluding that part-time workers are less likely to report job-related health problems and are more likely to achieve a positive work-life balance is good news for UK companies. Indeed, the European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO) report says Britain has the EU’s second highest proportion of part-timers – 25 per cent of workers in 2002.…

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EUROSTAT STUDY



BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMONGST all European Union (EU) countries, Finland has the highest number of nurses and midwives per head of population, – 2,181 per 100,000 inhabitants – according to the recently released and latest available comparative figures. EU statistical agency Eurostat said that these 1998-2000 figures showed Portugal as having the least nurses and midwives (379 per 100,000) and Greece the second worst performer (391).…

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FLAVOURED CIGARS FEATURE



BY ALAN OSBORN
THEY’RE not to everybody’s taste, we quite agree, but there’s no doubt that flavoured cigars have a very devoted band of followers and can no longer be dismissed as a passing fancy. Indeed after speaking to a number of the big players it is easy to gain the impression that the flavoured, (or aromatic), segment has (along perhaps with filters) been the only one to buck the cigar sector’s trend of falling or stagnant sales in recent years.…

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