Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, who is taking the
force to an employment tribunal over claims of racial discrimination, has been
suspended.
During the Great Depression, Meriden artist John Backstrom created 12 landscape paintings a month as part of a federal employment project. He never knew what happened to most of the canvases.
Unemployment in Germany fell slightly in August despite slumping business and consumer confidence in Europe's biggest economy, the federal employment office said Thursday.
Luis Ramirez came to the U.S. from Mexico six years ago to look for work, landing in this town in Pennsylvania's coal region. Here, he found steady employment, fathered two children and, his fiancee said, occasionally endured harassment by white residents.
Winchendon's former police chief intends to ask for his job back after a federal jury awarded him nearly $770,000 in an employment discrimination suit.
The Commission strongly welcomes the agreement that Member States reached in the early hours of this morning (10 June) on the longstanding issues of the Working Time Directive and the Temporary Agency Work Directive at the Employment and Social Affairs Co
