BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Workers to collect unpaid overtime SYLMAR - A Sylmar manufacturing company agreed to pay a total of $173,977 in back wages to 33 employees for uncompensated uncompensated (  n·kômˑ·p overtime, a U.S. Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working spokesman said Wednesday. A Labor Department investigation found that RW Spears Inc. misclassified outside technical-service representatives as exempt from overtime. The investigation also showed that the firm did not keep accurate records of hours worked. Under overtime rules, outside-sales employees can be considered exempt if their primary duty is making sales. In this case, the technical-service representatives were employed for marketing the firm's products, not for making sales, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Labor Department. Bloggers defend online reporters SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. - Online journalists and bloggers filed a brief this week supporting three Web site reporters who wrote about a top-secret product Apple Computer Inc. claims was protected by trade secret laws. In December, Apple sued 25 unnamed individuals - possibly Apple employees - whom it claims leaked confidential product information to three Web publishers. In Apple's attempts to identify the source of the leaks, the company subpoenaed an Internet provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider and demanded it turn over some of the reporters' e-mail records. After a judge in San Jose upheld the subpoena subpoena (səpē`nə) [Lat.,=under penalty], in law, an order to a witness to appear before a court. A subpoena ad testificandum [Lat. last month, the reporters appealed. The Center for Individual Freedom, First Amendment Project, Media Bloggers Association The Media Bloggers Association, or MBA, is an American membership-based, non-partisan organization involved in activities that support the development of blogs as an emerging distinct form of media. , Reporters Without Borders A number of NGOs have adopted the "Without Borders" tag, inspired by Doctors without Borders.
Casino wins right to name monkey NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - An infinite number infinite number a number so large as to be uncountable. Represented by 8, frequently obtained by 'dividing' by zero. of newly discovered monkeys trying to name themselves could have pounded on their keyboards a long time before coming up with this one: GoldenPalace.com. The Internet casino paid $650,000 for the right to name the foot-high primate, online auction house CharityFolks.com announced Wednesday. GoldenPalace.com won a March 3 online auction that raised money to help manage Madidi National Park in Bolivia, where the species of titi monkey titi monkey one of the many small New World monkeys, about the size of a squirrel with dense, short fur and a long, nonprehensile tail. It comes in several colors including black with white face, collar and hands. Called also Callicebus spp. was discovered by a Wildlife Conservation Society scientist last year. A statement from GoldenPalace.com CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Richard Rowe suggested the company was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a publicity-generating investment more enduring than an item it paid $28,000 for in another online auction last year: a 10-year-old, partly eaten cheese sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary. The GoldenPalace.com monkey, one of about 30 species of titi monkeys found in South America, has a golden crown and a white-tipped tail. Its formal name will be Callicebus aureipalatii - Latin for ``golden palace.'' Auction playing on heartstrings WESTLAKE VILLAGE - Celebrities like Donald Trump and Arsenio Hall are strumming their charitable strings on Guitar Center's Web site. The Westlake Village company is auctioning off 30 hand-painted Gibson guitars for the Pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. Epilepsy Project. Money goes toward UCLA's Division of Children's Neurology. Other celebrities have already signed on for the next auction, including Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr and Tom Petty. The auction was launched a month ago and will end May 1. Greg Grunberg, an actor on the TV show ``Alias,'' organized the auction after his son was diagnosed with epilepsy two years ago. Yamaha recalling some bikes, ATVs CYPRESS - Cypress-based Yamaha Motor Corp. is recalling certain models of motorcycles, off-road motorcycles and ATVs because of brake-related problems. The voluntary recall affects 2,755 Yamaha PW80s motorcycles and TT-R90 off-road motorcycles of the 2005 model year, as well as about 850 Grizzly 125 all-terrain vehicles, said Patty Davis of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Rewards reduced for Mattel's CEO EL SEGUNDO - Mattel Inc.'s chairman and chief executive, Robert A. Eckert, received $3.6 million in compensation for 2004, excluding stock options, compared with about $12.85 million in 2003. The 2004 figure includes a salary of $1.25 million, a bonus of $984,344 and $1.23 million to cover additional taxes on a loans forgiven by the company in 2003, according to a definitive proxy filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 2003 figure includes a salary of $1.25 million, a bonus of $633,998, $6.74 million in loan forgiveness and $4.09 million to cover taxes. Mattel officials said the loan was to help retain key executives during a time of management transition and business challenges. Wilshire building brings $93 million Arden Realty Inc. has announced the purchase of a 408,000-square-foot office building on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $93 million. The building at 5670 Wilshire Blvd. is 92 percent leased. In conjunction with the acquisition, Arden assumed a $51.5 million mortgage loan with an 8.5 percent interest rate that matures in September 2008. Arden Realty is a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust that owns, manages, leases, develops, renovates and acquires commercial office properties in Southern California. Liz Taylor teams with Kathy Ireland The company that produces Elizabeth Taylor's new jewelry line will partner with Kathy Ireland's design and marketing firm to bring fashion and bridal collections to market, it was announced Tuesday. ``Kathy will lead design direction for her own collections and serve as an ambassador for House of Taylor Jewelry, all under the direction of Dame Elizabeth (Taylor),'' said Jack Abramov, president of Houe of Taylor Jewelry. |
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