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Mozda gledam pogresno na stvari, ili mozda nemam pojma ni o cemu, mozda sam i oglupeo, ali meni se cini da kapitalizam postaje sve brutalniji od kad je socijalizam propao (and rightly so (mislim to da je propao)). Kao da su za vreme dok je postojao socijalizam namerno pustali da radnicima i ostalim zaposlenim na Zapadu na poslu bude bolje, a sad kad nema vise pretnje socijalizma j@bu im svima mater.
Sama cinjenica da vecina ljudi radi 50+ sati nedeljno uz sav napredak tehnologije je za mene mind-boggling.

Gledao neko F.I.S.T.? jedan od boljim Stalloneovih filmova, ako ne i najbolji. Kao da se vraca to vreme za zaposlene (u modernom smislu naravno). Ali sta ja znam u stvari.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-fires-iowa-worker-for-minor-1963-crime.html

Wells Fargo Fires Iowa Worker for Minor 1963 Crime

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wells Fargo Home Mortgage (WFC) has fired a Des Moines worker over a 1963 incident at a Laundromat involving a fake dime in the wake of new employment guidelines.

Richard Eggers, 68, was fired in July from his job as a customer service representative for putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a washing machine nearly 50 years ago in Carlisle, the Des Moines Register reported Monday.

Warren County court records show Eggers was convicted of operating a coin-changing machine by false means. Eggers called it a "stupid stunt," but questions his firing.

Big banks have been firing low-level employees like Eggers since new federal banking employment guidelines were enacted in May 2011 and new mortgage employment guidelines took hold in February, the newspaper said. The tougher standards are meant to clear out executives and mid-level bank employees guilty of transactional crimes — such as identity theft and money laundering — but are being applied across the board because of possible fines for noncompliance.

Banks have fired thousands of workers nationally, said Natasha Buchanan, an attorney in Santa Ana, Calif., who has helped some of the workers regain their eligibility to be employed.

"Banks are afraid of the FDIC and the penalties they could face," Buchanan said.

The regulatory rules forbid the employment of anyone convicted of a crime involving dishonesty, breach of trust or money laundering. Before the guidelines were changed, banks widely interpreted the rules to exclude minor traffic offenses and misdemeanors.

Wells Fargo confirmed Eggers' termination.

"The expectations that have been placed on us and all financial institutions have never been higher," said Wells Fargo spokeswoman Angela Kaipust.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. provides a waiver process employees can follow to show they're still fit to work at a bank despite a past criminal conviction, but it usually takes six months to a year to be approved. There is also a process for automatic waiver that works more quickly but is limited to people who were sentenced to less than year of jail time and never spent a day locked up.

Eggers, who was jailed two days, doesn't qualify.

American Bankers Association spokeswoman Carol Kaplan said the public clamor for tighter regulation also is responsible for the stricter interpretation of the rules. The safest route is to fire the employee and let them pursue an FDIC waiver.

"There's no question that there was an appetite for tighter bank regulation as a result of the global financial crisis," Kaplan said.

There is no government or industry data on the number of bank firings due to criminal background checks. The FDIC is on pace to grant 74 waivers, up from 21 waivers approved in 2009. The agency was not able to provide any information on annual waiver application data.

Des Moines attorney Leonard Bates is helping Eggers navigate the FDIC waiver application process.

"These guidelines are really meant for executives and people who can perpetuate widespread fraud," Bates said.

Južnoafričko tužilaštvo povlači optužnicu protiv rudara za ubistva kolega

Beta    | 02. 09. 2012. - 23:50h | Foto: AFP - Arhiva   

Glavni tužilac u Južnoj Africi saopštila je danas da će povući optužnicu protiv 270 rudara zbog ubistva 34 kolega koji su poginuli prošlog meseca kada je na njih pucala policija.
Sahrana jednog od ubijenih rudara
Odluku tužilaštva da podigne optužnicu protiv uhapšenih rudara kritikovale su političke partije, sindikati, civilno društvo, pravni stručnjaci, pa čak i ministar pravde.


Vršilac dužnosti direktora državnog tužilaštva Nomkobo Džiba je posle niza kritika najavila da će optužbe za ubistvo i pokušaj ubistva biti zvanično povučene, ali nije objasnila zašto je promenila odluku.

Rudari će biti pušteni iz zatvora uz upozorenje.

Druge optužnice, među kojima javno nasilje, nezakonito okupljanje i nezakonito posedovanje oružja, će ostati, ali će ti slučajevi biti odloženi do završetka istrage.

Oko 3.000 rudara počelo je proteste 10. avgusta, tražeći povećanje plata. Deset ljudi, uključujući i dva policajca, ubijeno je između 10. i 12. avgusta u sindikalnim sukobima.

Zatim je 16. avgusta policija pucala na rudare, naoružane mačetama, kopljima i pištoljima. U nasilju je ubijeno 34 ljudi, 78 je povređeno, dok je
259 ljudi uhapšeno.

Policija je saopštila da je postupala u samoodbrani pošto su rudari otvorili vatru na njih.

Nacionalni sindikat metalaca tražio je suspenziju policajaca odgovornih za ubistva.

Centralni komitet sindikata pozvao je vlasti da utvrde i saopšte javnosti ko je "dao naređenje da se bojevom municijom puca na radnike koji su se mirno okupili", izjavio je generalni sekretar sindikata Irvin Džim.

On je istakao da postupanje policajaca potvrđuje da u Južnoj Africi nije transformisana "država aparthejda i njena nasilna mašinerija".

Režim predsednika Džejkoba Zume često je kritikovan zbog neuspeha da smanji visoku nezaposlenost, reši stambene probleme i zaustavi rast nejednakosti između bogatih i siromašnih.

http://www.blic.rs/m/Vesti/Svet/340833/Juznoafricko-tuzilastvo-povlaci-optuznicu-protiv-rudara-za-ubistva-kolega