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23 Oct 2008
Temporary workers will receive many of the same protections as permanent staff because of the European Parliament's approval of a new European Union Directive. EU institutions have battled for six years over the issue.
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22 Oct 2008
A newspaper and advertiser have been told to ensure that any offer advertised as being free has a genuinely free route to entry. Advertising regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has told the companies not to repeat a rule-breaking ad.
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22 Oct 2008
Any interference with plans to extend flexible working rights to the parents of children over six will not help companies but will damage competitiveness and business interests, according to personnel workers.
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22 Oct 2008
Data protection authorities from all over the world have agreed to call for legislation specifically limiting the collection and use of children's personal data.
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22 Oct 2008
Supermarket the Co-op has proposed the largest divestiture of business assets in UK competition history as part of a bid to have its buyout of Somerfield approved by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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21 Oct 2008
Social networking sites are not permitted to store information about people's use of the sites beyond the duration of a particular session in Germany, according to a panel of all that country's data protection officials.
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21 Oct 2008
The European Union's Data Retention Directive was not procedurally flawed and should not be repealed, an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said. Ireland's argument that the law was wrongly adopted has been rejected.
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20 Oct 2008
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) has given its backing to an international group of prosecutors in a bid to help fight cross-border intellectual property related crime.
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20 Oct 2008
The inventor of a car door latch was not entitled to walk away from a commercial agreement in the way that he did, the High Court has ruled. The terms of the deal had been broken at one point, but not when the inventor ended the agreement, the court said....
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20 Oct 2008
Executives and managers could face two year jail terms for health and safety breaches under legislation just passed by Parliament. The new law will come into force in January.
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