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The Daily PollCABINET HAS APPROVED the publication of a new law that will give customers clear information on where their tips and service charges go and prohibit the use of tips to ‘make up’ contractual rates of pay.
The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill, brought forward by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, will provide clarity to workers on the meaning of tips, gratuities and service charges.
The new legislation will also place tips and gratuities, but not service charges, outside the scope of a person’s contractual wages, and will oblige employers to display prominently their policy on the distribution of both cash and card tips.
Employers will also be obliged to distribute fairly, equitably and in a transparent manner how tips that are received in electronic form – such as through debit, credit cards or smart phones.
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My wood lists to one side also!
A number of poor ratchet strap operatives on board it looks like
The ship is listing not almost completely listing, it is almost capsized.
3,600 tonnes of timber from Gabon. Half a rainforest down the swanny.
Yeah- whether it was licenced timber or not, it was coming from forests that would better serve us all by being left as, well- forests. I hate the media blindness on this sort of casual destruction.
Bingo dara!
If Cido shipping abandoned the vessel are they no longer the owner? Salvage rights and all that?
Salvage doesn’t work that way. It’s an expensive bill though.
The ship should be fine, if she was carrying timber there’s a good chance it absorbed a lot of water and the GM (centre of gravity) went negative.
that ship is wrecked
Definitely a combination of heavy seas , a cargo shift and may even be caused by incorrect loading as the vessel is not only listed over 40 degrees but is also unbalanced fore to aft .
Great workplace by SMIT one of the best marine companies in the world .
Could be water absorption in the timber cargo? Extra weight up high leading to a negative GM.
I think she took a sudden list before the storms.
Looking forward to the informed expert views on this…..
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©UNEP-WCMC 2004
Over the past ten years, Gabon has gone through a profound process of reform affecting the forest and environment. A new forest law has come into force that emphasizes SFM as the overall approach in the PFE. Forestry is, and will remain, one of the pillars of Gabon’s economic and social development. The private sector has become a major driver of industrial forest development and the export of forest products. The government has introduced a system to institutionalize community forestry as a way of meeting local needs for timber and other forest products. Gabon has a low deforestation rate, forests rich in valuable timber species and among the best prospects for a healthy and sustainable forest industry. There are still problems – mainly in governance. For example, there is little civil advocacy and few participatory processes in the forestry sector. Protected-area management in Gabon is still in its infancy and requires greater planning and effective enforcement.
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