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New York will raise its minimum wage in an effort to maintain competitive wages for workers across the state beginning January 1, 2025. The increase is part of a multi-year plan aimed at gradually raising the minimum income to meet the needs of the diverse workforce, taking into account the cost of living and inflation. Minimum wage in 2025 The minimum wage in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County will increase from $16.00 to $16.50 per hour, while in the rest of the state it will increase from $15.00 to $15.50 per hour. This 50-cent increase is in…

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Giacomo Dandrea, head of Sergen, the Lucanian company where two of the 5 dead worked, avoids the questions. The accusations of Fiom CGIL Calenzano massacre, the owner of the company avoids the questions: “I don’t know what you are talking about” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/12/news/esplosione_calenzano_sergen_titolare-423881461/?rss

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A teenager is having to ‘scrape’ together £129.50 after he was fined for sitting in the wrong first class section of a ‘very full’ train. Theo Griffiths, an 18-year-old student from Boston, Lincolnshire, decided to take the train to London King’s Cross because the journey was ‘too long of a distance to drive.’ He was travelling to the capital to see some colleagues in their office, but when Theo boarded his Thameslink train, it was so full that he couldn’t find a seat. The 18-year-old had previously seen messages stating that he could use the train’s first-class seating as an…

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  OpenAI said its services have been affected by an outage, hours after Meta experienced a social media blackout with its apps. According to DownDetector UK, a website that monitors social media outages, technical issues primarily with OpenAI’s ChatGPT service peaked at about 11.53pm. OpenAI’s website was also affected. We’re experiencing an outage right now. We have identified the issue and are working to roll out a fix. Sorry and we’ll keep you updated! — OpenAI (@OpenAI) December 12, 2024 In a post on X just after midnight, OpenAI said: “We’re experiencing an outage right now. We have identified the…

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  The embezzlement trial threatening Marine Le Pen with a ban from running for public office is not deterring her far-right Rassemblement National (RN) from relying on what got them into trouble in the first place: European Parliament funds intended for parliamentary assistants. The party’s president, Jordan Bardella, who is also a member of the European Parliament, attempted to have his chief of staff recruited as a local parliamentary assistant. In November, the Parliament rejected the hiring, as revealed by The Chained Duck on December 4. Nine other far-right MEPs elected in July faced similar refusals. The European Parliament’s letter…

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“Count on me for anything. Do you have a relative on the waiting list at the hospital? Come to me! Any procedure that is not progressing? The same! And if I don’t open the door for you, kick it down!” With this uninhibited declaration of principles, José Luis Baltar Pumar presented himself to his neighbors when in 1990 he became president of the Ourense Provincial Council. The offer worked for him. He held the position for more than two decades and, upon retiring, he bequeathed it to his son José Manuel, surname Baltar Blanco. The harangue that cut the ribbon…

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Updated Thursday, December 12, 2024 – 00:16Videos starring famous rappers and girls in bikinis, the best stands at fairs on the medical cannabis business, (impossible) returns of 65% for any investorand even trailers with the company logo touring Europe… But Juicy Fields, the company that promised millionaire returns to 186,000 people around the world by investing in legal hemp crops – with Spain among the most affected countries Become Premium from €1 the first month Take advantage of this limited time offer and access all web content I love you Juicy Fields: the mastermind of the biggest European scam in…

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