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RSS salary in newsEU skills shortage 'stifling start-up growth rates'
News The survey also highlighted a huge increase in the number of employees being offered share options, and more than two-thirds of companies are increasing salary levels well above the rate of inflation. [10 May 2000]
IT executives are the slimmest of the fat cats
News IT executives are losing out to counterparts in other sectors of industry in terms of salary and bonuses by as much as £200,000, according to research from New Bridge Street Consultants. The highest basic salary was £481,500, while the lowest... [06 Dec 1999]
Government urged to abandon cap on share options
News In an exclusive video interview with Silicon.com, Saxby argues that if you want to motivate the best brains in the business and gain access to staff with the most experience, paying the highest salary doesn't always get results. [28 Oct 1999]
Ex-Andersen chief coins it in as captains of industry flock to the Web
News According to company documents, Shaheen's contract includes shares for 5 per cent of the company in addition to a $500,000 annual salary. The latest predictions for this Friday's Nasdaq flotation of Internet grocery start-up Webvan have put the... [06 Oct 1999]
UK government skips consultation process in IR35 row
News The government rejected proposals put forward by the 360 Group to apply a minimum salary payment. The government's changes to its proposed IR35 legislation, that would affect one man service companies, haven't gone far enough - that's the message... [24 Sep 1999]
Judgement imminent in PAYE test case
News An industrial tribunal is expected to deliver a judgement in the next few days on the case of an IT contractor who claims insurance was unfairly deducted from his salary by recruitment agency, Dart Resourcing. [10 Sep 1999]
German workers take strike action onto the Web
News Only 20 metres away from First's offices, the Institute for Computer Science at the Humboldt university pays a higher salary because it is a state-run institution. Employees at a computer science research centre in Berlin, Germany have taken... [25 Oct 1998]
HP cuts worldwide workforce by 2,500
News The company is offering six months salary and half a month's pay for every year of employment up to a maximum of 24 years. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is to cut 2,500 jobs from its worldwide workforce through voluntary redundancies. [05 Oct 1998]
Hitachi in crisis
News Hitachi aims to cut staff costs by almost $0.5bn through a combination of redundancies and salary cuts. Hitachi is in trouble this morning after being blacklisted by investment ratings agency Standard & Poor (S&P). [07 Sep 1998]
In brief: Vodafone staff in lucrative share offer
News Vodafone has followed the lead of numerous US high-tech companies by offering all its 6,000-plus employees share options worth at least half their basic salary. The UK's largest mobile network operator claims the shares - dubbed the millennium... [06 Aug 1998]
Computacenter case nears conclusion
News She was an account manager and on top of her £20,000 per annum salary, earned about £350,000 in commissions. Computacenter returned to court yesterday for the seventh day of its sex discrimination case. [29 Jun 1998]
