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Call-centre Survey Finds Staff Stressed And In Pain
News Up to three quarters of call centre staff may be experiencing stress, and four out of five suffering headaches, plus more than 60 percent having pains in their hands, wrists and back, reports a Trade Union survey by Unison in Scotland.
[June 11, 2002, 12:00]
Teleworkers Get New Employment Safeguards
News Four and a half million teleworkers in the European Union will have greater security, while keeping their flexibility, as a result of a consultation process between European employers and trade unions.
[July 18, 2002, 14:50]
Lots Of .biz-ness For Icann
News The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Brussels, Belgium, is sticking with the ".union". The application came from a group of more than 20 trade union organisations, including the AFL-CIO and unions in Australia, South Africa...
[October 4, 2000, 13:03]
US Report: EU Privacy Plan Impact On US Unclear
News E-commerce won't grind to a halt because of it, but the strict data privacy protection plan implemented by the European Union (EU) on Sunday is likely to cause some trepidation in US companies -- and the fallout could eventually be significant.
[October 27, 1998, 9:44]
EBay Battles Consumer Rights Magazine
News Payments were made using money transfer services such as Western Union, which are banned on eBay because they are not traceable.eBay works extensively with law enforcement across the UK and internationally, employing a dedicated team of experts...
[February 28, 2006, 9:25]
Union Will Fight To Save UK Mobile Jobs
News Union leaders will meet with Swedish mobile phone firm Ericsson early next week in an attempt to save UK workers from compulsory redundancy. Bob Shannon, national officer of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), will lead the...
[April 20, 2001, 13:48]
Digital Downloads Tax EC/US Relations
News The Bush administration on Friday raised concerns about a European Union proposal that would require US companies to collect taxes on digital downloads. EU companies would no longer be required to collect VAT taxes on digital goods sold outside the...
[February 11, 2002, 15:20]
Unions To Get £10m To E-modernise
News Unions have done much to modernise themselves and several, often supported by the [Trade Union Council], have made significant progress in that direction. The scheme is aimed at training union representatives in "broadening dialogue" and making...
[July 19, 2005, 10:00]
Shell Accused Of 'dumping' IT Staff
News The trade union Unite says anxiety levels are running high among the fewer than 200 UK tech staff who will be transferred to either AT&T, EDS or T-Systems under the five-year deals to outsource Shell's IT infrastructure.
[April 4, 2008, 9:07]
Legal Action Threatens Shell's Outsourcing Plans
News Shell is facing the threat of legal action from trade union Amicus over staff redundancy terms, which could hit the oil giant's plans to outsource up to 3,200 tech jobs. The oil multinational is in the process of finalising contracts with AT&T, EDS...
[January 8, 2008, 7:53]
Lloyds TSB To Offshore 450 IT Jobs
News Hundreds of IT jobs could be lost at Lloyds TSB as part of the bank's plans to offshore 450 posts from the UK to India this year, a trade union has warned. The bank is considering outsourcing further jobs in the programme-management department...
[May 20, 2008, 8:34]
Flexible And Tailored Services For OAJ Members With A Uniform Platform And A Revamped Web Portal
White Papers The Trade Union of Education in Finland (OAJ), wanted to tailor member services to specific job descriptions and varying needs of the different user groups and make web services available from one source via a common user interface that allows...
[March 25, 2008, 0:01]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog I have just been at a rather interesting lunch with some chaps from HP, video-conferencing company Tandberg, the UK Centre for Environmental and Economic Development (EED) and the trade union Amicus. So if businesses can really latch-onto video...
[May 30, 2007, 17:24]
It's A Family Affair: The Effect Of Union Recognition And Human Resource Management On The Provision Of Equal Opportunities In The UK
White Papers It is found that, controlling for various factors, equal opportunities policies and their monitoring, together with "softer" family-friendly policies are strongly associated with trade union recognition.
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
GLBA Security Standards: Safeguarding Your Customer Data For Compliance And Regulatory Audit
White Papers Section 501 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (GLBA) of 1999, which addresses "Protection of Nonpublic Personal Information," requires federal banking agencies, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the...
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
To Buy Or Not To Buy: Timber Procurement Policies In The EU
White Papers This paper examines the timber procurement policies of European Union (EU) member states and the USA to see to what extent their governments are using this power. Government purchases account for a substantial proportion of world trade in timber...
[July 14, 2005, 6:00]
Quick Scan Of Post 9/11 National Counter-Terrorism Policymaking And Implementation In Selected European Countries
White Papers The goal of the comparative analysis was to make a contribution to improving coordination of counter-terrorism among European Union Member States. A comparative analysis of The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Spain and the United...
[February 15, 2005, 2:00]
STP In The Gas Marketing Industry: Solving Compliance Issues While Increasing Visibility, Efficiency & Accuracy
White Papers Regulations such as FAS 133 and Sarbanes-Oxley, along with continual change from regulators such as NAESB, the FERC and the European Union, have place d increased requirements on gas industry businesses and the business systems they use.
[October 25, 2005, 3:00]
DTI: Teleworking Is Good For Your Health
News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and CEEP, a European organisation representing public sector employees, say their guidelines will help companies avoid many of the technical and human problems associated...
[September 2, 2003, 11:50]
Fujitsu Staff To Strike Again
News Staff at Fujitsu Services will go on strike again this week, after the collapse of arbitration talks aimed at ending a long-running dispute between members of the Amicus trade union and management. The dispute revolves around redundancy rights...
[March 5, 2007, 12:34]
