Social / CSR in Barbados
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BARBADOS, 2015/07/09
A day next calling out public servants to turmoil, the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) has instructed employees its represents at the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) to stop working.
The action – Phase 2 of the industrial action sparked by the forced retirement of workers at the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) – will mean no garbage collection or provision of grave digging services by the SSA.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
