The Biden administration “left behind more than 100 government-sponsored journalists, plus their families, after putting them through three weeks of hell,” the Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin revealed on Tuesday evening. His claim is based on information from people on the ground, a US senator who tried to help, as …
Read More »‘No good reason’ they are employed? London Mayor Khan owes apology to white British men working in STEM field
The American economist and defender of free markets, Milton Friedman, once quipped that a “government’s solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.” That would adequately sum up Khan’s stated objective of reducing the number of white men employed in science and technology – if it weren’t …
Read More »UK Supreme Court rules Uber drivers should be classified as employed and entitled to minimum wage and holiday pay
Although the decision will directly apply only to the 25 drivers who brought the claim against Uber, it sets an important precedent for how millions of so-called gig-economy workers are treated in the UK. There are 45,000 Uber drivers in London alone, with thousands more working for the company across …
Read More »Because of the epidemic of the coronavirus 50% of employed Russians threatened job loss
Every second working citizen of the Russian Federation could lose his job and the income. 50% subject to the risks of dismissal, reduction or delay of wages, and a forced leave of absence. The epidemic of the coronavirus that led to temporary plant closures and decline in production, was a …
Read More »It is estimated the number of Russians employed in the informal sector
Experts rating Agency “National credit ratings” (NKR) found that the shadow employment in Russia is 13 million people, or 18% of the workforce. This is indicated in the study, “if everyone employed receives informal average for the region wages, lost income of budgets of all levels is about 3 trillion …
Read More »The Finance Ministry proposes c of the new year to introduce a tax for self-employed in 19 regions
The Finance Ministry has proposed to extend from 1 January 2020 the experiment on taxation of self-employed. The draft amendments to the law published on the portal of projects of normative acts, it is said that a pilot project should include another 19 regions. “Begin the experiment by establishing a …
Read More »Self-employed also have something to fear?
The Financial Times admired the Russian tax system, writes “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, saying that in Russia the difference between the planned and actual revenue from VAT is only 1%, and in the UK as much as 9.1 percent. But tax collection in Russia is higher than in the UK, not because …
Read More »In the Ukrainian foreign Ministry has “employed” the cat Ambassador
Cats work for the benefit of many countries. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine henceforth will live a cat named Ambassador. This was written on Twitter by the Director of the political Department of foreign Affairs Alexei Makeev. “He will represent the Ukrainian-cat’s interests in the international arena, to …
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