De bestial a besta? Novo Nordisk perde 80 mil milhões numa semana

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Eles cá eram bem capazes de baixar o ordenado nuns tostões para encher o olho ao povo e depois aumentarem as ajudas de custo.

Há de tudo em Portugal

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Grande exemplo afinal ainda temos politicos com coragem na Europa, era o que devia ser feito cá relativamente aos politicos e a determinados cargos publicos demasiadamente bem pagos, a gestores de topo a alguns quadros médios e a certas reformas milionarias, mas para isso era preciso coragem (e inteligência).

E a par disso remunerar melhor certos quadros intermédios, e subir o ordenado minimo para 500€ (já não digo mais), no fundo repôr alguma justiça, todos teriam a ganhar com isso.

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Esta é rara de ver!

Devido à crise e dificuldades financeiras do momento, o governo irlandês decidiu reduzir os seus próprios salários em 10%.

A medida é voluntária mas a Presidente, 1º Ministro e quase todos os ministros e secretários de estado aderiram. Incluindo também o governador do Banco Central e até os dirigentes da tv pública.

President and Central Bank chief take pay cut

PAY CUTS: PRESIDENT MARY McAleese and the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, John Hurley, will take a 10 per cent pay cut following Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan's appeal to senior public servants to consider surrendering 10 per cent of their salary during his Budget speech.

President Mary McAleese has announced she will take a voluntary 10 per cent pay cut in her annual salary of €325,508. The Government secretariat was notified of her decision yesterday morning.

A spokeswoman for Mr Hurley said: "The governor of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland has volunteered to also surrender 10 per cent of his total pay." Last year, Mr Hurley was paid €368,703.

A statement issued shortly after midday yesterday read: "The President has this morning informed the Government of her intention to surrender 10 per cent of her salary in light of the current national budgetary situation."

The President is on a State visit to Norway. She attended a business breakfast in Oslo yesterday morning, hosted by Enterprise Ireland and later visited the Celtic studies department at the University of Oslo.

The President's salary cut will amount to €32,551 gross. The procedure for making the deduction is expected to be worked out on her return. The Norwegian State visit concludes this evening.

In his Budget speech on Tuesday, Mr Lenihan announced that Ministers, Ministers of State and secretaries general of Government departments would be surrendering 10 per cent of their current total pay.

"Other public servants in leadership and senior positions may wish to consider whether it is appropriate for them to make a similar move in current circumstances," Mr Lenihan said.

Meanwhile, RTÉ's top six executives are taking a "significant reduction" in pay. A spokeswoman for RTÉ said the decision pre-dated Mr Lenihan's appeal.

"A few weeks ago, members of the RTÉ executive board decided to take a significant reduction in their remuneration package," she said. The amount has not been revealed.

The executives are: director general Cathal Goan, managing director of news and current affairs Ed Mulhall, managing director of television Noel Curran, managing director of radio Adrian Moynes, communications director Bríd Rosney and Conor Hayes, chief financial officer. Asked if RTÉ's highest-earning presenters would take a pay cut, the spokeswoman said RTÉ never discussed negotiations of individuals' salaries.

Por outro lado vão aumentar o imposto sobre o rendimento de toda a gente em 1% ...

New tax will hit working poor hardest, says CORI

By John Cooney
Thursday October 16 2008

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan had vowed to "look after the little people" before delivering his first budget.

But in a hard-hitting statement, social justice group CORI yesterday said the Government's 1pc levy on all income had worsened the plight of "the working poor".

"Budget 2009 did not protect the vulnerable," said CORI Justice Office director Fr Sean Healy.

While praising the Government for distributing its resources in a progressive way, Fr Healy calculated that social welfare recipients will be worse off in real terms.

"The introduction of an income levy means that people at or below the minimum wage who were outside the tax net in previous years now find themselves paying tax from their already very meagre income," Fr Healy said.

He explained that "the working poor" amount to 30pc of all households at risk of poverty -- even though they are headed by a person with a job. In 2008 many of them paid no tax because their incomes were so low that they were outside the tax net.

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"Following Budget 2009 they will pay a levy of 1pc on every euro they earn," said Fr Healy. "In practice this means that a person or a couple on €15,000 will be €150-a-year worse off, and those on €25,000 will be €250 worse off."

Fr Healy also calculated that the Government's failure to raise Child Benefit will mean that, because of inflation, the value of this payment will fall by 2.5pc in real terms next year.

"Our conclusion is that Budget 2009 failed to protect the vulnerable," said Fr Healy.

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