• She said the changes would bring the UK into line with countries such as France and Sweden and that England's current higher ratios meant lower pay for staff and higher costs for parents.

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  • The report compiled by the Home Affairs Committee sets out the pay, weekly hours, other activities and staff costs for each of the 41 police areas in England and Wales.

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  • Although doctors and nurses are badly paid by European standards, staff costs account for half of health spending.

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  • In turn, the government began to offer corporate incentives for domestic investment and development in the tourism sector, doubling tax deductions for costs related to training tourism staff and providing significant depreciation benefits for investments in tourist facilities.

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  • It hasn't quite turned out that way, and, as the American money evaporated, the banks that once outbid each other for scarce staff are left with huge costs and massive overcapacity.

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  • The minister confirmed that they have protected the match funding of the European fisheries fund and that costs for the assembly staff working to support the industry do not come out of her budget.

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  • The most likely outcome is that customers will face a choice between Linux, which is cheap and cheerful, and Windows, which offers more bells and whistles, is tightly integrated with other Microsoft products and is easier for unskilled staff to use, but costs more.

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  • That covers a pension, compensation and benefits for office staff, and the government also picks up the tab for other costs like travel, office space and postage.

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  • She said the authority had since apologised to staff, offered to reimburse them for any additional costs and sent out the redundancy letters by email.

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  • The private operator can have more total staff for the same park visitation because its labor costs are so much lower, but what I want to focus on is the mix of staffing.

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  • He said there were other additional costs such as increased national insurance contributions for staff.

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  • Worse, despite 3, 250 fewer staff, the ratio of costs to income for the whole bank rose to around 90%, from 77% in 2000.

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  • For Mr. Chait, who was already paying for the location and some of the staff salaries, input costs were minimal, and he made a margin of about 20% on each event, he said.

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  • This is cheaper for them than having staff in Western countries where salaries and other costs are higher.

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  • The deal will cut costs for AstraZeneca, which will transfer 1, 200 staff to IBM, and is evidence of the increasing computing needs of drug companies.

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  • She built a state-of-the-art neo-natal unit, brought in experts to train the clinic's staff and established a program to cover the medical costs for babies born to impoverished mothers.

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  • "It is apparent that many people still have complete disregard for the way they dispose of litter and waste, meaning expensive costs for the taxpayer in clean-up fees and staff having to work in a dangerous environment, " he said.

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  • The great danger is that corporate staff members will dig in their heels and fight for one particular forecast of costs.

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  • Typically, they take in all the money and write all the cheques, including one to the owner, if there is anything left after paying for all hotel operating costs, the management fee, and sometimes the salaries of the staff in the manager's own regional headquarters.

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  • Staff costs at Emirates are around 15% of overhead, against well over twice that for a typical American or European network carrier, says Mr Flanagan.

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  • Handling each of these transitions separately without a set of common standards and best practices not only costs us valuable staff time it also poses a burden that can deter contractors from competing for our business and wastes millions of taxpayer dollars.

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  • For the first time in my memory, some retailers did not add to their selling staff, thus keeping the selling costs in check.

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  • For firms that plan 18 months ahead, he says, this is a time to snap up good staff, reduce costs, and expand outside Moscow.

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  • There are increased costs due to the large number of vacancies for consultants and specialists, which are currently filled by locum staff, while the Health and Social Services Department tries to find permanent employees.

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