This article is about a contract break and defaulting. There are 2 parties Itelco and Scarlet Telecom. In 2007 they made an agreement in which Itelco took the sale of Scarlet’s telecommunication services. Everything was perfect in order. Gert Post, managing director of Itelco Group told in a message that the cooperation with Itelco had caused for an important sells increase . After this augmentation everything went wrong. Scarlet terminated the cooperation and refused to pay the services done. A month later, Itelco went to the court and they lodge a complaint against Scarlet Telecom. They claim a compensation of 5milion euro’s because of ending the contract in which Itelco care for the Scarlets B2B-services. The complaint dated almost 1year but it announced 3months ago by the website of Data News. In this article Gert Post, managing director of Scarlet is saying that the case isn’t such horrible as it looks. However Frederick De Sloover, managing director of Itelco Group is completely against the statement of Gert Post where he minimized the problem. In a conversation with an IT Professional he accentuated that it isn’t a dispute about the sales as Post pretended. He said also that it is about a contract break, defaulting and unfair competition. The complaint lodged to the court of justice of Brussel. By the way, Belgacom made an offer on Scarlet, it is now waiting for the reaction.
Opinion:
I am completely agree with the approach of Itelco about the case. They followed the normal process by going to the court. It is finally about a serious agreement concerned about lot of money. Scarlet behaved in an unethical way what caused for problems for Itelco Company. Itelco can come through the problems with the offer of Belgacom they got. But on the other side, Scarlet will gets lots of problems, there is a difficult time waiting for Scarlet.
www.zdnet.be/news/89148/scarlet-beschuldigd-van-contractbreuk-en-wanbetaling/
Selim Karadag 2rp2
zaterdag 31 oktober 2009
donderdag 29 oktober 2009
Women vulnerable to sex discrimination in workplace
A recent report shows that one fourth of all women is rejected from a job due to sex discrimination. It’s hard to do something about it, because the rules aren’t very clear about sex discrimination and the government doesn’t cooperate either. So it’s very difficult to find some evidence in the law.
The report was made by the Center for Women’s Law and Legal Services of Peking University. They say that there is a lot of sex discrimination in the job market in China. The report is based on personal statements of female job applicants. Many of them feel very angry because they are treated very badly and unfair.
It’s not that the female applicants can’t protect themselves. They don’t have any laws they can refer to. It’s very difficult to find evidence, so they have no power to protect their rights. The government can make more laws and specify the laws so there can’t be any mistakes and the women can protect themselves.
It’s not impossible to sue an employer for sex discrimination, but the question we need to ask is if the decision makers want to solve the problem. Even in the governments offices there is sex discrimination.
I think it’s awful that women in China are victims of sex discrimination. The worst of all is that the Chinese government doesn’t do anything about it. Women must be equal to men. I think the Chinese government must make some new laws and complete the existing laws, because now it’s almost impossible to sue an employer for sex discrimination and that is not the way it supposes to be. The women who made the report have done some good work and I hope that a lot of people will read it and take action to force the government to chance the laws so that the women are equally treated as the men.
Jonas Hillemans
2RP2
source: http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/commentary/2009-06/438474.html
The report was made by the Center for Women’s Law and Legal Services of Peking University. They say that there is a lot of sex discrimination in the job market in China. The report is based on personal statements of female job applicants. Many of them feel very angry because they are treated very badly and unfair.
It’s not that the female applicants can’t protect themselves. They don’t have any laws they can refer to. It’s very difficult to find evidence, so they have no power to protect their rights. The government can make more laws and specify the laws so there can’t be any mistakes and the women can protect themselves.
It’s not impossible to sue an employer for sex discrimination, but the question we need to ask is if the decision makers want to solve the problem. Even in the governments offices there is sex discrimination.
I think it’s awful that women in China are victims of sex discrimination. The worst of all is that the Chinese government doesn’t do anything about it. Women must be equal to men. I think the Chinese government must make some new laws and complete the existing laws, because now it’s almost impossible to sue an employer for sex discrimination and that is not the way it supposes to be. The women who made the report have done some good work and I hope that a lot of people will read it and take action to force the government to chance the laws so that the women are equally treated as the men.
Jonas Hillemans
2RP2
source: http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/commentary/2009-06/438474.html
As well as certain strike of the railways on 5 November 2009
Next Thursday there will be almost certainly a 24 hour strike of the railways. Sources of the trade unions and the NMBS have said this.
The two major railway trade unions are dissatisfied by the negotiations with the NMBS-direction about B-cargo, the cargo division of the NMBS, and applied for a 24 hour strike. The strike will run from Wednesday evening 4 November 22 hours to Thursday, 5 November 22 hours.
The NMBS wants to create a private judicial company from B-cargo, but in this new company there will be no place for all 900 employees of B-cargo. The trade unions are protesting against the fact that there is still no clarity about what will happen with all those employees. Jannie Haeck, CEO of the NMBS holding company, says he understands the nervousness of the trade unions. But, the cargo compartment of the NMBS is heavily losing profit. This year there is a loss of EUR 188 million being recorded, after a loss of EUR 85 million in 2008.
Although there were already many meetings, both formal and informal, there were in fact no real negotiations. The direction of the NMBS talked in first instance only about a scenario where the working conditions were handled heavily and in a second phase for a total management of the carriage of goods, not about redundancy dismissals. That’s why the trade unions are complaining at this moment.
Not a single moment the trade union had the feeling that the NMBS really wanted a negotiated solution, with mutual agreement, the ACOD said. The Socialist Union really wants to avoid a second ABX-drama.
That there will be a strike is as well as certain. The total traffic, both passenger transport (including international trains) as the transport of goods, will be immobilized on 5 November. Accidentally, it’s my birthday then. I hope I don’t have to take the train that day. That’s why I hate strikes, especially when thousands of people are trapped because of it. But on the other hand when I must be in the situation of those employees, maybe I would do the same…
The two major railway trade unions are dissatisfied by the negotiations with the NMBS-direction about B-cargo, the cargo division of the NMBS, and applied for a 24 hour strike. The strike will run from Wednesday evening 4 November 22 hours to Thursday, 5 November 22 hours.
The NMBS wants to create a private judicial company from B-cargo, but in this new company there will be no place for all 900 employees of B-cargo. The trade unions are protesting against the fact that there is still no clarity about what will happen with all those employees. Jannie Haeck, CEO of the NMBS holding company, says he understands the nervousness of the trade unions. But, the cargo compartment of the NMBS is heavily losing profit. This year there is a loss of EUR 188 million being recorded, after a loss of EUR 85 million in 2008.
Although there were already many meetings, both formal and informal, there were in fact no real negotiations. The direction of the NMBS talked in first instance only about a scenario where the working conditions were handled heavily and in a second phase for a total management of the carriage of goods, not about redundancy dismissals. That’s why the trade unions are complaining at this moment.
Not a single moment the trade union had the feeling that the NMBS really wanted a negotiated solution, with mutual agreement, the ACOD said. The Socialist Union really wants to avoid a second ABX-drama.
That there will be a strike is as well as certain. The total traffic, both passenger transport (including international trains) as the transport of goods, will be immobilized on 5 November. Accidentally, it’s my birthday then. I hope I don’t have to take the train that day. That’s why I hate strikes, especially when thousands of people are trapped because of it. But on the other hand when I must be in the situation of those employees, maybe I would do the same…
zondag 25 oktober 2009
Marriage has nothing to do with color
Who wants to marry in the American state Louisiana, has to think twice before he decides. In Louisiana the judge had refused the marriage between a black man, Terence McKay and the white woman Beth Humphrey. He has the opinion that such marriages doesn’t have any success and the children only become the dupe. Despite lot of accusations made by the inhabitants he accentuates that he isn’t a racist. He worries about the children and it is his right to deny the marriage between 2 different races. By the way he works in Tangipahoa Parish, on the countryside of Louisiana. The main opponent of the judge, Keith Bardwell, is the American association of civil rights, the ACLU. In the mean time they have claimed. for the resignation of the judge. Their main argument that they wrote in the letter to the on the Court is that a judge has only follow the law not his theories. The judge stays on his point of view by saying that those marriages haven’t got any chance for success. Now they are waiting for a positive reaction of the letter so there comes any victims of the “theories” of the judge.
Opinion:
Cultural difference is the main cause of bad marriages but the judge may not give his opinion on that matter. I think it is incredible that this is happening in the country of Obama, the land of freedom and prosperity. A good solution would be marrying in another state. But I think that the judge has a point about the importance of children. Because they aren’t accepted as equals by the both “races”, they become the dupe. These times people divorce frequently ,a good marriage is exceptional. The Constitution guarantees the equality between the different races and people. A decision against the Constitution is not possible. So they can go to the supreme court.
Selim Karadag
2RP2
http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/raar/2009/10/rechter_vs_verbiedt_gemengd_hu.html
Who wants to marry in the American state Louisiana, has to think twice before he decides. In Louisiana the judge had refused the marriage between a black man, Terence McKay and the white woman Beth Humphrey. He has the opinion that such marriages doesn’t have any success and the children only become the dupe. Despite lot of accusations made by the inhabitants he accentuates that he isn’t a racist. He worries about the children and it is his right to deny the marriage between 2 different races. By the way he works in Tangipahoa Parish, on the countryside of Louisiana. The main opponent of the judge, Keith Bardwell, is the American association of civil rights, the ACLU. In the mean time they have claimed. for the resignation of the judge. Their main argument that they wrote in the letter to the on the Court is that a judge has only follow the law not his theories. The judge stays on his point of view by saying that those marriages haven’t got any chance for success. Now they are waiting for a positive reaction of the letter so there comes any victims of the “theories” of the judge.
Opinion:
Cultural difference is the main cause of bad marriages but the judge may not give his opinion on that matter. I think it is incredible that this is happening in the country of Obama, the land of freedom and prosperity. A good solution would be marrying in another state. But I think that the judge has a point about the importance of children. Because they aren’t accepted as equals by the both “races”, they become the dupe. These times people divorce frequently ,a good marriage is exceptional. The Constitution guarantees the equality between the different races and people. A decision against the Constitution is not possible. So they can go to the supreme court.
Selim Karadag
2RP2
http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/raar/2009/10/rechter_vs_verbiedt_gemengd_hu.html
donderdag 22 oktober 2009
Zwijndrecht has a referendum on the 20th of December.
The town council of Zwijndrecht has decided that they are going to hold a referendum about the Oosterweelconnection in Antwerp.
The town council has demanded a referendum because they want to know if the citizens want to chance the infrastructure, because it will infect traffic in a lot of cities in Antwerp so that’s why the town council want to know what the people think about it.
The town council voted unanimous yes on the question if there should be a referendum. Only when they had to choose a date Vlaams Belang voted against a certain date. The lange wapperbridge doesn’t cross Zwijndrecht so they didn’t need to vote for that. But in other cities in Antwerp this will be a very important referendum because the bridge will not only affect traffic but also the view and the value of certain houses and areas. The only thing they will vote for is the infrastructure, for instance the road exits on the highways and the installation of sound screens to reduce the noise of the traffic.
The people will be informed with brochures. They are going to vote in December to decide what they are going to do with the Oosterweelconnection.
I think it’s a good idea to inform the citizens, because the people live there and it will affect the way they live. Because there will be a lot of traffic, but there are also good things about it maybe it will be a solution for the traffic jams and the roads will be safer so there will be less accidents. I think it’s stupid that the referendum isn’t binding, because in the end it’s the government who will decide. We live in a democracy so if the people voted no than it’s clear what the people want and than it’s not the government who has the last word, in a democracy the people have the last word. But that’s just my opinion.
Jonas Hillemans RP2
Source: http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=DMF20091022_089&word=gemeenteraad
Gazza's ex in libel damages win
The former wife of Paul Gascoigne has accepted undisclosed libel damages over a claim her financial demands caused his relapse into alcoholism.
For those who don’t know Paul Gascoigne or “Gazza”, it is a retired English professional footballer. Believed to be one of the greatest of his generation and he was a gifted midfielder in the nineties. Gazza, who won 57 caps for England, became a millionaire overnight when he was transferred from Newcastle to Spurs in 1988.
But Gascoigne was involved in many off-field incidents, and is believed never to have fulfilled his potential as a player. Since his career finished in 2004, he has suffered from alcoholism, mental illness and personal legal problems. Unfortunately …
Sheryl Gascoigne went to London's High Court over "sensational and highly offensive" claims in the Daily Star. Her legal team said the June articles suggested she demanded extra maintenance payments as the ex-England star was in a drug rehabilitation unit.
The newspaper suggested the 43-year-old ex wife had already been paid £17.5m by the former Newcastle and England footballer as part of her divorce settlement. They then suggested that notwithstanding such alleged payments, Ms Gascoigne had made a callous and wholly unjustified demand for a further £100,000 and for increased maintenance payments, while Mr Gascoigne was fighting for his life in a drug rehabilitation unit.
The articles also suggested that Ms Gascoigne's demands had driven Mr Gascoigne to the brink and caused his then recent relapse into alcoholism.
Express Newspapers apologised and admitted the allegations were untrue. They apologised publicly and unreservedly for the distress and embarrassment caused and had agreed to pay Ms Gascoigne damages and her legal costs.
So think twice when you read the newspapers. Don’t always believe everything they write …
For those who don’t know Paul Gascoigne or “Gazza”, it is a retired English professional footballer. Believed to be one of the greatest of his generation and he was a gifted midfielder in the nineties. Gazza, who won 57 caps for England, became a millionaire overnight when he was transferred from Newcastle to Spurs in 1988.
But Gascoigne was involved in many off-field incidents, and is believed never to have fulfilled his potential as a player. Since his career finished in 2004, he has suffered from alcoholism, mental illness and personal legal problems. Unfortunately …
Sheryl Gascoigne went to London's High Court over "sensational and highly offensive" claims in the Daily Star. Her legal team said the June articles suggested she demanded extra maintenance payments as the ex-England star was in a drug rehabilitation unit.
The newspaper suggested the 43-year-old ex wife had already been paid £17.5m by the former Newcastle and England footballer as part of her divorce settlement. They then suggested that notwithstanding such alleged payments, Ms Gascoigne had made a callous and wholly unjustified demand for a further £100,000 and for increased maintenance payments, while Mr Gascoigne was fighting for his life in a drug rehabilitation unit.
The articles also suggested that Ms Gascoigne's demands had driven Mr Gascoigne to the brink and caused his then recent relapse into alcoholism.
Express Newspapers apologised and admitted the allegations were untrue. They apologised publicly and unreservedly for the distress and embarrassment caused and had agreed to pay Ms Gascoigne damages and her legal costs.
So think twice when you read the newspapers. Don’t always believe everything they write …
zondag 18 oktober 2009
Employees from the post sell 720 stolen items on E-Bay
The court-house of Antwerp has convicted Nancy P. and Godellieve L. to a community service of 150 hours and a fine of 2750 euro. The couple had stolen over 720 postal items from the sorter Anwerp X. They sold the catch on the internet. The fact were discovered after an internal investigation from the Post. They had received over 464 complaints of parcels who weren’t received. This happened between 2006 and 2008. On the 13th of February 2008 the surveillance camera recorded Nancy P. opening a Parcel. She confessed immediately that she stole plenty of items with her wife Godellieve L. She claimed that she has stolen these items for the money and for the rush. The women stole cell phones, DVD’s, jewellery, computer games, hand bags, tickets for Rock Werchter, Stamps,... . They offered 720 items on E-bay en Kapaza. They have located 77 articles who were estimated of a worth of 9500 euro. The court-house declared confiscated that amount. The Post has put them as civil party and got 1 euro morel compensation and 1 euro material compensation. 4 Deputies got the amount of 411 euro to divide.
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