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• 3 Somali Cabinet ministers die in bomb blast (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 169
  AP – An explosion ripped through an upscale hotel in Somalia’s capital Thursday during a university graduation ceremony, killing three government Cabinet ministers and six others, officials said. Two journalists were among the dead. Read more:  (AP)"> (AP)">3 Somali Cabinet ministers die in ...
  6 hours ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  10 hours ago

• Rifqa Bary to meet parents so they can talk about Islam

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 136
  But she will talk to them about Christianity. A government caseworker outlined a plan calling for Rifqa Bary, 17, and her parents to listen to each others views on religion. Bary needs to hear out her parents explanation of their beliefs when she goes home, according to the proposal filed in Franklin County ...
  15 hours ago

• Kudos, Mr. President on Afghanistan

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 136
  but a deadline is a big error. President Barack Obama invoked the September 11 attacks Tuesday in calling for the nation to unite behind his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. Obama announced he would send an additional 30,000 troops to the war-torn country on an expedited schedule so that the ...
  15 hours ago

• Nick Smith: I don’t know and I don’t care

  
  frogblog — Authority: 577
  Nick Smith’s proposal to go back to the 1999 policy of booting people off ACC weekly compensation if they can manage 30 hours a week in a minimum wage job is listed in the Explanatory Note to the ACC gutting Bill under the heading “Cost Containment Measures”. So Kevin Hague decided to ask Smith some ...
  20 hours ago

• What Were Reading...

  
  Economix — Authority: 731
  The future of Africa and other economic news from around the Web.
  21 hours ago

• Common Sense vs. the CBO on ObamaCare

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Both the House and Senate versions of the healthcare reform bill would require employers above a certain size to provide health insurance for their workers or face some sort of penalty. The House bill that passed last month would require employers to pay an 8% additional payroll tax for not insuring their workers. The ...
  23 hours ago

• Ms. CEO: A Rare Commodity

  
  College Candy — Authority: 651
  Working on Fifth Avenue at New York City is nothing short of glamorous. Every day, I walk to work on one of NYC’s most famous streets, cutting through Central park, walking by the Plaza, passing Saks and finally entering the headquarters of one of the largest beauty companies in the world to work on photoshoots ...
  1 day ago

• Maid posed as burglar to rob Hong Kong boss

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Hong Kong, Dec 2 (DPA) An Indonesian maid working in Hong Kong was in custody Wednesday after allegedly posing as a burglar to break into her 79-year-old employer’s bedroom.The 25-year-old woman allegedly put a mask over her face and snatched a gold necklace from her employer at knife-point as she lay in bed, ...
  1 day ago

• UK’s national HC cancer rationing by region

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 136
  Late diagnosis of cancer causes at least 10,000 premature deaths a year. Thousands of people with cancer are dying prematurely because they live in the "wrong" part of the country, a government report reveals today. Charities and MPs condemned the variations, which mean that sufferers in some parts of the ...
  1 day ago

• A Tale of Two Recessions: Wealth grows for a few as most Washington families struggle – how will state leaders respond?

  
  Washington Policy Watch — Authority: 105
  EOI’s latest analysis of Washington’s economy reveals that many hallmarks of middle-class life – owning a home, sending the kids to college, having health care, and building a retirement nest egg – have become increasingly unattainable for local families:Owning a home: Falling home prices are good news for ...
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• Minimum Wage Machine

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 781
  Minimum Wage Machine by artist Blake Fall-Conroy spits out $7.15 per hour in pennies as a person turns the crank. Fall-Conroy writes to Make : In the future, I see possibility in a lot of these machines hooked into a grid, with people performing basic human labor for money. Perhaps a new form of renewable energy ...
  2 days ago

• Employment Law Solicitors Could Help You Get Justice

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 487
  It is a sad reality that some UK citizens are still working in poor conditions and being paid very little. Unfortunately, the employers at fault are less inclined to do something about it unless someone speaks with employment law solicitors to get the justice they deserve. In our modern generation, no-one should ...
  2 days ago

• Hospitality

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 483
  Adam is quite a large man, so why when visiting an Auckland hostelry tonight, returning from a pre-prandial amble was it so difficult to get service from a barmaid in a virtually empty Viaduct bar.  You would think they would want the custom! Sadly this seems so often to be the norm in NZ, especially in Auckland – ...
  2 days ago

• Human Rights Maps (73): Minimum Wages in the U.S.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  ( source , source ) First, why is this a human rights issue? Well, there’s article 23 of the Universal Declaration : Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of ...
  2 days ago

• How should I go about discussing a raise with my boss?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 171
  I’m only working a minimum wage job, but I just want to know the basics about raises and how long one has to perform well before an evaluation. How should I bring the topic up?
  2 days ago

• Has feminism turned women into wage-slaves?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Author and feminist pioneer Fay Weldon says equality brings certain drawbacks.
  2 days ago

• Send Rifqa Bary a Christmas card

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 136
  Bary denied visitors including her minister. The authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer Omar, continue to isolate her. She has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa ...
  3 days ago

• Non-Monetary Opportunity Costs of a Job

  
  voluntaryXchange — Authority: 134
  “ Ripe for the Plucking, but Fewer Dare to Try ” discusses the compensations – both positive and negative – of the job of picking coconuts in India. This is a good topic for an economics class that includes a globally diverse perspective. The work pays well – better than office jobs – because no one ...
  3 days ago

• Second Circuit Orders Release of Records to EEOC, Says Some Financial Services Workers May be Entitled to Overtime

  
  Connecticut Employment Law Blog — Authority: 492
  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes Connecticut) recently ruled on two cases of keen interest to employers. The first relates to enforcement of EEOC subpoenas and the second relates to the classification of some financial services workers. First, in EEOC v. United Parcel Services , the Court ...
  3 days ago

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