a financial incentive paid to encourage employees to remain in an organization and dissuade them from leaving for a rival business or to start their...
Capping pay is one way to send a message to Wall Street fat cats, but requiring execs to pay back their bonuses takes the punishment one step further. How Clawbacks Work There are two basic kinds of clawbacks, says Daniel Ryterband, president...
What on earth can we do about inequality? We know the UK has relatively large disparities of wealth by European standards, though not by US or Asian ones. We know that there has been a huge and expensive effort by the Labour Government, and to be fair some effort by...
THE best teachers are to be offered pounds 10,000 "golden handcuffs" payments for working at the worst performing secondary schools. The deal will form a key plank of new proposals by Gordon Brown, alongside extending free nursery and childcare places to 15% of the most disadvantaged families with...
A dearth of top level black management skills is forcing South African government parastatals to pay fat "retention bonus" to keep managers at their desks. Government owned South African Airways, for instance, will pay 17 executives a total of R24m ($3.4m) a year until the scheme expires in November 2010....
Byline: By ADAM JUPP Chief Reporter BOGUS workers were busted at a string of Tyneside takeaways. Officers from the UK Border Agency carried out raids on premises across the North East and found three men suspected of working illegally. At A Taste of Persia,...
COUNCIL boss Mark Henderson is quitting his job six months after signing a golden handcuffs deal. He announced the decision on the eve of local government elections that will choose the 67 councillors who will run the new unitary council for Northumberland. Mr Henderson was a...
THE government has refused to become involved in a row over 20% pay rises scooped by three bosses serving on Northumberland County Council. Blyth Valley MP Ronnie Campbell was so angry about the controversial deal - dubbed the 'golden handcuffs' pay rise - that he wrote to Prime...
A GOLDEN handcuffs deal has given a county council's three top bosses a 20% pay rise. The rises are designed to ensure that the officers do not leave Northumberland County Council in the run up to it being merged with six district councils to form a new unitary...
WEDDING party revellers who handcuff one another to lampposts along Blackpool's Golden Mile could be fined up to pounds 300. Firemen in the seaside resort say the practice takes resources away from real emergencies. Lancashire Fire and Rescue hopes to have its...
By Ciar Byrne Arts and Media Correspondent Alan Clements, the programme-maker and husband of the Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, has vowed to appeal after his former employer won its legal battle to prevent him working for a rival television company. RDF Media, the company...
Starting salaries for City lawyers have broken the 60,000 mark for the first time as demand for new talent soars, an analysis by a leading legal recruitment firm has found. Newly qualified solicitors at London's top firms have seen salaries rise by 16 per cent in the...
SOUTH Africa's golden boy Bryan Habana has been with girlfriend Janine Viljoen for four years but has never had sex with her. Janine, who wears a "purity" ring, says she wants to remain a virgin until she's married. After last night's World Cup final the handsome,...
I READ with interest that Aberdeen boss Jimmy Calderwood was hailing some of Gordon Strachan's dealings in the transfer market. But I was astonished that he thought Artur Boruc was now worth three times what the Celtic boss paid for him just over two years ago....
MOTORMOUTH DJ Gerry Ryan has been given a "Golden handcuffs" deal by RTE. Ryan, who earned more than EUR520,000 in 2005, has been given a huge pay rise following the deal. The contract means he will have to stay at the Donnybrook station until 2012. ...
FOR DECADES, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been a unique place to work. During the decades of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, it offered challenging work at competitive compensation that was clearly in the national interest. During that time, work centered on nuclear...
RTE EXECUTIVES are desperate to slap a "golden handcuffs" deal on terrible twins Podge and Rodge. The Ballydung brothers' latest TV series ended last week and has catapulted the puppets on to the A-list celebrity circuit. But life for one of the...
By Marge Overs A NEW Medicare item for training for rural GPs and incentives to act as "golden handcuffs" to encourage older doctors to keep working are among proposals put forward by Federal Health Minister Mr Tony Abbott. Speaking...
I OULDN'T believe my eyes at the display of Darren O'Dea in the Celtic defence against AC Milan in the San Siro. The lad, who has just turned 20, hardly put a foot wrong - and it was incredible to accept this was only his 10th...
* Retaining the new doc Great article on physician retention in the Dec. 15, 2006 issue ["How to keep the new guy"]. The advice from the experts is consistent with my advice to clients and resident physicians, with one major exception. I strongly disagree with consultant Jeffrey Dennings "golden handcufF'...
Staff POACHING NO SOLUTION As a specialist in a direct marketing recruitment consultancy, we have found that over the past three years there have been fewer and fewer graduates applying to enter the industry and less and less talent ...
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