Vexm As the income gap widens, so does debate about what it means
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened a shortage of white-collar workers in many countries, forcing companies to pay higher salaries to woo talent, a top London-based recruiter said on Tuesday.Robert Walters RWA.L 鈥?which specialises in the likes of accountants, legal and tech staff 鈥?said demand was outstripping supply in many of its 31 markets globally including the United States, the UK and Japan, as hiring in the last six months had sped up. A war for talent and significant wage inflation is beginning to emerge, Robert Walters eponymous chief executive said in a statement accompanying the groups first-half results, tho
stanley thermos ugh he didnt specify what level of pay rises the company was seeing.Walters remarks on higher salaries align with stories of pay hikes by European lenders Deutsche Bank DBKGn.DE and UBS UBSG.S and at Wall Streets banks, while data has shown more people are changing jobs or quitting following months of uncertainty during lockdowns.While the pandemic slowed hiring for much of 2020, it also hit immigration levels, making it challenging for businesses to fill vacant posts and often tilting salary conversations at companies in favour of valued existing employees and in
stanley cup coming candidates.As hiring speeds up further, Robert Walters said it was performing above market expe
stanley us ctations for the year ending December. Its pretax profit rose to 22.1 million pounds $30 million in the six months ended June, a 6 per cent rise from pre-COVID levels and a 414 per cent surge Eopt Police arrest two poachers
ROCKLAND, Maine 鈥?The city is moving closer to having a methadone treatment facility again after Rockland Planning Board members unanimously approved Tuesday night a national companys application to open one at the former site of the Turning Tide clinic on New County Road.
stanley flasche City attorney Kevin Beal said Wednesday that the board found that Metro Treatment of Rocklands application satisfied the citys site plan requirements.Company officials said at the meeting that it could take up to two months to staff up and get licensure, Beal said. They seem to want to communicate well with folks, he said of those officials.Turning Tide operated at the 166 New County Road location until federal drug agents shut it down in the summer of 2010 after citing threats to public health and safety.Angel Fuller McMahan, who owned and ran Turning Tide, was arrested last August for possession of cocaine. After the shutdown of the clinic, city councilors determined that Fullers company had broken the rules of the contract zone the city h
stanley becher ad given her.The City Council in September approved a zoning change that would allow for another clinic at that location but included
stanley cup a provision in the ordinance forbidding Fuller McMahan from having anything to do with such a business.Metro Treatment of Rocklands parent company is Colonial Management Group LP, which is based in Orlando, Fla. That company runs methadone treatment programs all over the country, including one in Bangor.Metro Treatment would like to ulti
