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UK Government In Breach Of European Employment Law
News The way the government brought in working time regulations in this country was to exclude anybody with less than 13 weeks employment with the same employer from the right to paid holiday leave," said Jennie Walsh at Thompsons -- the UK law firm...
[June 26, 2001, 14:17]
Government Struggles To Prosecute Spammers
News The UK's privacy watchdog has admitted that it has not successfully prosecuted any UK spammers, despite regulations designed to curb spam being brought in three years ago. As the commissioner said in his annual report this year: 'We do not believe...
[December 6, 2006, 9:46]
Employees Are Vital Link In The Security Chain
News As a result of these regulations, companies need to keep their customers' information, as well as their financial reporting material, under tight security. Regulations around privacy, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
[July 22, 2004, 14:10]
Barracuda 3D Planner
Downloads To achieve it must be aware about: to cover the tasks - to carry out labour law as time restriction or breaks and working times regulations such as hours, weeks or months. Detailed Scheduling of Human Resources has the aim to cover schedules and...
[February 20, 2007, 22:46]
Holocom Secure MultiNet PC Introduction
White Papers In this time of international unrest and stringent corporate regulations, the need for working with different security classifications while simultaneously enabling access by users with varying security clearances and denying access to users who...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Consolidating Multiple Accounting Systems On SAP Business One
White Papers Datalog Technology wanted to standardize multiple geographically distributed organizations on a single accounting system and comply with country-specific accounting regulations. As a result there was automated accounting data entry processes from...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Performance-Based Service Acquisition: Contracting For The Future
White Papers The paper includes recommendations for changes to current regulations and guidance that will give agencies more flexibility in applying PBSA effectively, appropriately, and consistently. During that time, agencies have made moderate progress in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Overworked IT Managers Risk Blunders Or Burnout
News The boom in Internet applications means that one in four IT managers regularly works a 60-hour week, and almost all are breaking European regulations. According to research released on Wednesday, nine out of ten IT managers in the UK regularly...
[August 2, 2001, 12:45]
Employers: Find Out Your Workers' World Cup Rights
News Under the Working Time Regulations 1998, employees have the right to take up to four weeks paid holiday. Be firm but flexible - perhaps tell employees that you are happy for them to work "flexible hours" (i.e.starting earlier or later than normal...
[May 22, 2002, 14:53]
Is Contract Work A Good Career Move?
News Please note that in the UK the IR35 tax regulations may apply to contractors working full-time for one employer. The contractor is usually either acting independently or is working through an agency. As a contractor, you can set aside time for that...
[May 8, 2002, 9:47]
Barclays Capital Readies Systems For MiFID
News As the November MiFID deadline looms, investment firms in the City and across Europe are working hard on getting their systems ready for the new regulations. He said these requirements need to be defined as soon as possible to enable the IT...
[March 13, 2007, 9:49]
RSI Week: Your Employer's Obligations
News Most workplace health and safety regulations apply to factories, warehouses and other places where the likelihood of losing a vital appendage are a lot higher then the average open-plan office. But while complaints like RSI don't occurr often in...
[February 26, 2004, 14:25]
Free Software's White Knight
News The US government accused Zimmerman of violating US regulations by publishing the PGP software on the Internet. We expect to see more people doing this work in time, perhaps working within organisations for salaries, or within the non-profit sector.
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
Sarbanes-Oxley 'good For IT'
News Complying with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley may have diverted money away from revenue-generating IT projects but it has forced business to get their technical houses in order, according to a senior IT manager at investment bank Dresdner...
[January 27, 2005, 15:40]
Microsoft: Streaming Office 'infringes Licence'
News Microsoft has said that the internet service provider Fasthosts, which has started offering a subscription-based version of Microsoft Office 2007, is infringing on the software giant's licence regulations — but Fasthosts has denied this claim.
[February 8, 2008, 14:59]
ISPs Face Data Interception Deadline
News Several classes of communications service providers are exempt from the regulations: those which do not intend to supply services to more than 10,000 people in the UK, and financial institutions such as banking, insurance and investment houses.
[July 10, 2002, 16:03]
Email Quarantines And Corporate Paranoia Boost Demand For Storage
News Sacrificing a legitimate email every now and again is a relatively low price to pay if it significantly reduces the amount of spam, but strict data retention laws, such as Sarbanes-Oxley regulations in the US, mean companies are obliged to keep...
[May 26, 2004, 14:20]
Interview: Open-source Advocate Eben Moglen
News The US government accused Zimmermann of violating US regulations by publishing the PGP software on the internet. While working at Columbia, he tackled his first major legal case relating to software freedom.
[May 11, 2007, 15:15]
Civil Service Denies Email Foul Play
News Financial regulations, such as Sarbanes Oxley and Basel II, stipulate that companies must store all emails for at least seven years. Although none have been convicted yet, chief executive officers found to have failed in such auditing regulations...
[December 20, 2004, 12:30]
Harry Potter At The Mercy Of Pirates
News Jon Peddie, an analyst at Jon Peddie Research, said the studios for now are spending substantially larger amounts of money lobbying Congress for new copy-protection laws and regulations than they are spending to install copy controls at the...
[June 21, 2002, 10:41]
