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Agency workers 'not paid equally'

2013-09-02 01:00:14| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The UK is failing to implement European rules designed to give equal pay to agency workers, according to the trade union umbrella body, the TUC.

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U.S. government paid $17 billion for weather-withered crops last year

2013-08-28 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Desiccated corn and sun-scorched soybeans have been in high supply lately - and we`re paying through the nose for them. The federal government forked out a record-breaking $17.3 billion last year to compensate farmers for weather-related crop losses - more than four times the annual average over the last decade. The losses were mostly caused by droughts, high temperatures, and hot winds - the sizzling harbingers of a climate in rapid flux. Could some of these costs have been avoided? The...

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