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Articles tagged with: Union and Court
Italy Facing Fines for Lack of Mobile Location Data from Emergency Calls
The European Commission has decided to ask the EU Court of Justice to fine Italy for failing to respect a previous Court judgement for not providing full caller location information for emergency services. Member States have an obligation to ensure that when a person dials Europe's single emergency number (112) from a mobile phone, details of his or her location are sent to the emergency services. The Commission's decision to refer Italy back to the Court follows two previous warnings from the Commission. more
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Legislation To Be Introduced To Repeal Immunity For Telecommunications Companies
A bill is expected to be introduced in the US Senate today that would repeal the immunity granted to telecommunications companies under the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) passed last year. By including the immunity provision in the FAA, Congress ensured the dismissal of active court cases pending against companies that aided the Bush administration in its illegal, unconstitutional and warrantless wiretapping program. more
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Vodacom Shares Soar on South African Stock Listing
.. Zuma were the lead opponents to Vodafone taking control of Vodacom. The Cosatu union has vowed to call for a boycott of Vodacom products in protest at the sale of the controlling stake to Vodafone. Vodacom is due to release it's annual earnin more
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Vodafone's Vodacom Investment Thrown Into Doubt
.. Vodacom to Telkom shareholders. As the proposed takeover is being opposed by the unions, the regulator issued a brief statement that it felt the legal uncertainty made it difficult to offer regulatory authority for the takeover. A series of pub more
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European Parliament Votes to Approve Cuts on Roaming Charges
The European Parliament, in its plenary session in Strasbourg, has voted to approve new rules on SMS and mobile data charges when roaming. The Parliament also voted for further cuts in the price of mobile phone calls while roaming in another EU country. The present cap for a mobile phone call made abroad will progressively drop from EUR0.46 to EUR0.35 per minute by July 2011, and from EUR0.22 today to EUR0.11 for mobile calls received while roaming abroad. more
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Nortel Pensioners Seek Resumption of Benefits Payments
..n law by refusing to make the payments. A statement by the Canadian Car Workers union, which represents some of the retired workers says that "payments are not made for the benefit of any single individual, but pursuant to the Collective more
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NSA Spies On Americans Outside The Law
The American Civil Liberties union says that the USA's National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting Americans' emails and phone calls in recent months to an extent that exceeded even the overbroad limits permitted under the controversial spying legislation passed last summer. According to the New York Times, the NSA's "overcollection" of American' communications has been "significant and systemic." more
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Batelco Staff Sacking Ruled Illegal
..now demand their old jobs with the same salaries,"The union was satisfied though that the court had confirmed that the firms actions were illegal. Batelco said that the matter was closed as far as it was concerned. more
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Unions Call on Telstra to Accept Employee Vote on New Job Practices
Australian labour unions have urged Telstra's management to respect the rights of its workers to be represented by unions after the company's offer of a non-union job contract was rejected by employees. more
Related Tags: rsa, telstra, unions, Australia
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