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Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search
News The HMRC has previously guaranteed to cover the "incremental" costs of the police investigation such as overtime, accommodation and travel expenses. Scotland Yard will demand HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) foot the record bill for the force's hunt for... [14 Jan 2008]
Apple releases China iPod worker investigation
News The Mac maker employed an audit team to examine labour standards, working and living environment, compensation, overtime and worker treatment and to interview a cross-section of workers. The audit said: "Although our code of conduct allows overtime... [18 Aug 2006]
MPs probe government over EDS
News Earlier this year the CSA spent £11.5m in overtime costs after EDS installed a £450m computer system that MPs later said was an "appalling waste of public money". MPs have asked the government whether they will sack EDS over continuing IT problems... [27 Oct 2005]
Child support IT fiasco costs £11.5m in staff overtime
News The Child Support Agency (CSA) has been forced to pay staff more than £11.5m for hundreds of thousands of hours of overtime since the introduction of a £450m computer system by EDS. Stephen Geraghty, the new head of the CSA, admitted in a letter to... [13 Jun 2005]
IBM, Dell and HP under fire over 'Sweatshop' computer factories
News It uncovered a litany of unsafe factories; compulsory overtime; pay below the legal minimum wage; and cases where large numbers of workers have been deprived of basic legal entitlements such as health, pension and employment benefits. [28 Jan 2004]
