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The National Wages Council (NWC) said today (October 16) that companies that have already exhausted cost-saving measure should implement temporary wage cuts to minimise retrenchments. The tripartite group said that pay cuts should depend on the performance and outlook for the company as well as the industry it is in. Companies …

The Dutch government announced plans this week to allow doctors to end the lives of terminally ill children who are under 13 years old, a decision that is bound to inflame the debate over physician-assisted death. The Netherlands already allows doctors to facilitate the deaths of people who are over …

Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now More than a decade into the cloud computing era, the most pressing demand for migrating data and applications has largely been met. To convince companies to put even more core functions and sensitive data in the cloud, a wide range …