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Ulmer & Berne LLP Partner Says Smaller Businesses Also Face National Labor Relations Act Scrutiny
CLEVELAND -- The following is an opinion editorial provided by George S. Crisci, Esq., Ulmer & Berne LLP: Here's a little known fact that small business owners may find surprising: Even though your workforce may be non-unionized and you do not face a union organizing drive, you and your...
Tags: Ulmer & Berne Llp
Research articles 2004-06-23
Berne, N.Y., Sawmill Owner Fights State Fire-Prevention Codes.
By Kevin Harlin, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 20--The boards that roll off Rudy Stempel's mill, and the process of cutting them, haven't changed much in the almost 50 years he has been in business. ...
Tags: Times Union
Research articles 2003-02-20
Escher Group Forges Alliance With the Universal Postal Union; Strategic Alliance Will Help Posts Access Technologically Advanced Systems and Automation Services
Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BERNE, Switzerland--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 3, 2000 Escher Group, a leading provider of technology and e-commerce solutions to the postal industry and the Universal Postal Union UPU, a specialized institution of the United Nations representing the postal services of its 189 member countries, today announced...
Tags: Escher Group Ltd.
Research articles 2000-10-03
Spanish Informa-tion
For exporters considering the Spanish market, readers may be interested in the services of Informa, which was founded by C.E.S.C.E. Compania Espanola de Seguros de Credito a la Exportacion, and which belongs to the Berne Union, the ICIA, and the Reuters Group. Informa supplies credit and financial information on every...
Tags: Informa SA
Research articles 2002-05-01
Dutch can survive without Robben - Van Basten
BERNE, Switzerland AFP — Holland can survive their opening "Group of Death" test against world champions Italy in Berne on Monday without injured wideman Arjen Robben, coach Marco van Basten insisted Sunday. The Dutch are out to emulate their 1988 compatriots and land the title - Van Basten was...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Italy, Van
Research articles 2008-06-08
Swiss, US sign accord to settle tax case
By Jason Rhodes and Kim Dixon of Reuters BERNE/WASHINGTON - Switzerland has agreed to hand over details of about 4,450 UBS AG bank accounts to US authorities to settle a tax dispute that challenged Swiss banking secrecy and now threatens to spill over to other banks. With Switzerland's famed banking...
Tags: tax, U.S. Department of Justice, e-mail, publication
News items 2009-08-19
Swiss to Reveal UBS Accounts to Settle U.S. Tax Battle
By Jason Rhodes and Kim Dixon BERNE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Switzerland has agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS AG to U.S. authorities in a tax dispute settlement that pierces Swiss banking secrecy and now threatens to spill over to other banks. The deal promises...
Tags: UBS AG, Internal Revenue Service
News items 2009-08-19
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: SIMPUTER BEING TESTED FOR REMOTE E-MAIL USE IN BHUTAN.(Bhutan Telcom and Bhutan Post to test use of Simputer)
E-mail received by post offices in Bhutan, located between China and India, will be carried on the Simputer by a postal employee to addressees in villages, Calindi said. The villagers will be able to respond to e-mail using the Simputer with help of postal agents. ...
Tags: E-mail, India, International Telecommunications Union, telecommunications
Research articles 2004-01-22
Lanham-based Group 1 Software licenses with UN postal agency in
Group 1 Software, a Lanham-based provider of customer relationship management-enabling software, has licensed with the Universal Postal Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations headquartered in Berne, Switzerland, to incorporate in its database quality solutions postal data from the UPU's Universal POST*CODE database.
Tags: Group 1 Software Inc.
Research articles 2002-03-05
COMBINED TRANSPORT: ALPINE TUNNELS TOO SMALL FOR PIGGYBACK TRAFFIC
Summary: Swiss railway tunnels are too small to allow combined rail/road transport of lorries of the size common in the European Union. The Berne Government not only wants all lorry transit by road switched to the railways by the year 2004 for largely environmental reasons, but ...
Tags: Combined Transport Inc.
Research articles 1994-09-27
UBS tax deal with US expected soon
By Jason Rhodes of Reuters BERNE - Details of a deal to settle a US tax case against Swiss bank UBS AG could come as soon and could have far-reaching implications for other wealth managers. The lawsuit against UBS, which alleges that it helped US citizens dodge taxes, has strained...
Tags: tax, UBS AG
News items 2009-08-19
Swiss Turn a Profit on $5.1 Billion UBS Stake Sale
By Douwe Miedema and Sam Cage LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland sold its stake in UBS UBSNUBS for 5.5 billion Swiss francs ($5.1 billion) on Thursday, making a solid profit from last year's rescue of its largest bank. The sale of the 9 percent stake comes a day after the country...
Tags: UBS AG
News items 2009-08-20
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