approximately 8‚000 employees worldwide. The current President is Miles Flint and the Corporate Executive Vice President is Anders Runevad. Ericsson‚ which had been on the forefront of cellular phone innovation for decades‚ decided to divest its mobile phone business in 2001 following huge losses. Ericsson had decided to source chips for its phones from a single source‚ a Philips facility in New Mexico. In March 2000 a fire at the Philips factory contaminated the sterile facility. Philips assured Ericsson and
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urtThe Equal Opportunities Movement Orla McNulty and Cassie Walker The Equal Rights Ammendment * Alice Paul believed freedom from legal sex discrimination required an Equal Rights Amendment that ensured the equal application of the Constitution to all citizens. In 1923 she introduced the "Lucretia Mott Amendment‚" which read: "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." It was introduced in every session of Congress until
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Access to education and equality of opportunity This essay will look at wether access to education and training is instrumental in promoting equality of opportunity in today’s Australia. The discussion will start with a description of the role of education and training in our society‚ it will continue with the identification of various social groups and the factors influencing their access to education in all its forms. Current policies will also be examined and commented on and it will look at
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Review Of "Career Opportunities in Music Industry" by Shelly Field. There are new emerging meanings and relevance of following terms in Indian context. 1. Employment 2. Unemployment 3. Underemployment All these concepts apply to old way of looking‚ the new way to understand these concepts is in terms of Job and Joblessness. If there are one million jobs available‚ there might very few people who can fulfill these positions. If there are one million people with particular
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We-Asian are fully taking advantage of technology .This is a golden chance for us. They can even create their own websites to start a business instead of working for others. First of all‚ it is a good chance for them to widen their knowledge. They can learn a lot of interesting things from information technology such as internet‚ TV‚… Moreover‚ they can easily look for scholarships on the internet to study abroad. Thirdly‚ technology helps them improve the economy. Industry and agriculture with high
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Currently‚ NYC is experimenting with an alternative to incarceration called Neighborhood Opportunity Networks (NeON). These centers are part of a new model of community centric corrections programs known as justice reinvestment. Reinvestment programs are intended to reduce recidivism and reroute the money that would have been spent on incarceration to crime prevention programs instead. (Clear‚ et al‚ 2012). The Department of Probation (DOP) has begun placing NeON facilities in communities with the
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TDA 2.4 Equal Opportunities. Identify the current legislation and codes of practice relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity. Current Legislations Children Act 1989 – Protecting children’s welfare and to provide services according to the specific needs of children.Human rights act 1998 – specifies and enforces the rights of individuals and if these rights are affected actions can be taken to rectify the situation.Race Relations (amendment) Act 2000 – put in place as an organisation
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increasingly regulated. Reasons for the myriad laws and regulations affecting the employment relationship are suggested. Then‚ the major sources of the laws and regulations controlling the employment relationship are indicated. Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action (EEO/AA) laws and regulations have become paramount in the eyes of many who are concerned with staffing organizations. The general provisions of five major EEO/AA laws are summarized‚ along with indications of how these laws
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The Encarta World English Dictionary defines equal opportunity as "the availability of the same rights‚ position‚ and status to all people‚ regardless of gender‚ sexual preference‚ age‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ or religion." In the nursery setting this would mean that each child should be guaranteed access to particpate in all aspects of the nursery setting regardless of their gender‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ social or economic status. A child that is denied access to fully participate in all that the nursery has
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When the first democratic elections in the history of the country took place in 1994 South Africa captured the imagination of the world by plucking the country from the brink of imminent destruction. It succeeded in achieving a peaceful transition to democracy from the probability of protracted discord and violence that were extremely high. This was a laudable triumph for human dignity as well as a triumph against all forms of discrimination‚ more so because‚ for the first time in the history
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