Deadline for Gate Gourmet workers.Gate Gourmet Gate Gourmet is an airline catering firm with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, and Reston, Virginia, USA. As of 2004, it had 22,000 employees, a revenue of 2.4 billion Swiss Francs, and produced 195 million flight meals per year. workers sacked after August's wildcat wildcat, common name of two Old World cats, the European wildcat, Felis sylvestris, of Europe and W Asia, and the African wildcat, or kaffir cat, F. lybica, of Africa and Asia. strikes at Heathrow Airport were told over the weekend that they had less than a week to sign a compromise agreement with the firm ( or miss out on compensation payments. Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) British labour union. The Dockers' Union (founded 1889) took the lead in the merger of 14 unions to form the TGWU in 1922. The union grew rapidly under the leadership of Ernest Bevin (1922–40). hammered out a deal to see sacked staff given compensation or be re-employed ( subject to them signing agreements. A deadline was agreed with the union of Friday, December 16, though a small number who left the company later have been given individual deadlines which go into the new year. Fitness drive by BT workers THOUSANDS of workers at BT have lost weight equivalent to 60 phone boxes thanks to a health and fitness programme launched earlier this year by the telecoms giant. More than 16,000 employees signed up to the Work Fit scheme, which was launched after BT published the "startling" statistic that one of its employees died prematurely every two weeks. Dr Paul Litchfield, BT's chief medical officer, said he was stunned that so many BT workers felt they had to do something to change their lifestyle. Immigrants face pay gap ONE in 10 of Britain's working age population are immigrants and more than a third of them have arrived over the last decade, 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. a new study. The figures also demonstrate the stark difference between salaries earned by white and non-white workers born outside the country. Worst off are male Bangladeshis, who on average earn 40% less than British-born whites. The study, Immigrants in the British Labour Market, draws on data from the Labour Force Survey from 1979 to 2004. It reveals what sectors immigrants are working in, how their success in finding jobs has changed over time, and how they compare to British-born whites. The paper, for the Institute for Fiscal Studies, says: "Immigrants of different origin differ substantially with respect to their education and age structure, their regional distribution, employment sector choice, and time of residence in Britain." |
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