Norwegian Cruise Line agreed to pay $526,602 in back wages to 2,059 employees in Hawaii after a federal labor investigation found that the company had violated minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions for employees on the Pride of America cruise ship.
The investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor
WASHINGTON (AP) — The discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United States is raising new fears that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S.
The criminal practice has largely been relegated to poor countries with lax regulations. But with more medicines and drug ingredients for sale in the U.S. being manufactured overseas, American authorities are afraid more counterfeits will find their way into this country, putting patients’ lives at risk.
The Avastin discovery follows other recent instances in the U.S. of counterfeiting, involving such drugs as Viagra, the cholesterol medicine Lipitor and the weight-loss pill Alli.
“We do know there are counterfeits continuing to try and make their way onto the U.S. supply chain,” said Connie Jung, an associate director in the Food and Drug Administration’s office of drug security.
The FDA announced Tuesday it is investigating fake vials of Avastin that were sold to at least 19 doctors and clinics, including 16 sites in California, two in Texas and one in Chicago.
Employees work on vortex generators at Vestas Blades in Windsor on Wednesday. Vestas has invested $1 billion in four plants in Windsor, Brighton and Pueblo. ( AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post )
Vestas Wind Systems tomorrow plans to announce organizational changes that may cut thousands of jobs at the world’s biggest wind turbine maker while preserving the position of Chief Executive Officer Ditlev Engel.
As many as 3,000 of Vestas’s more than 23,250 employees may lose their posts, said Jacob Pedersen, an analyst at Sydbank.
Vestas, based in Aarhus, Denmark, said on Nov. 9 that it wants to become a “leaner” company by reducing annual fixed costs by 150 million euros ($192 million).
“They’ll probably cut 2,000 to 3,000 jobs, with a very large proportion of that in Denmark,” Pedersen said in a telephone interview from the Danish city of Aabenraa.
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Alexandra Mayzler’s delegation skills have vastly improved since we first met. But at the last meeting of our business group, she said she’s still too involved with the day-to-day minutiae of running her business, Thinking Caps Tutoring. “I want to move away from all hands on deck to each person has responsibilities,” Ms. Mayzler said.
The issues became more pressing, Ms. Mayzler said, after the company expanded from New York to Houston and Austin, Tex., and began hiring employees with managerial functions in addition to the tutors. Thinking Caps now has one education coordinator in Austin and one in Houston. In New York, Ms. Mayzler employs an operations manager and a math coordinator. Shes also about to hire an education coordinator.
“I need to understand how to guide people and set expectations,” she said.
Susan Parker, a business group member, said she and her sister had had similar problems at their company, Bari Jay, until recently. She recalle
The new boss of Woolworths Grant O’Brien took the astute decision today to announce the sale and $300 million writedown in its Dick Smith electronics business at the same time as releasing the group’s half year-sales figures.
The original plan was to hold off unveiling the divestment of Dick Smith until the half-year profit results. But given the supermarket giant experienced one of its worst comparative quarterly sales figures in food and liquor, the early announcement helpfully took the spotlight off what is going on at Woolworths.
The company highlighted the fact that half-year sales figures for supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand rose 5.6 per cent to $25.2 billion for the 27 weeks to January 1. However, if you look behind the figures and particularly the second quarter, during the all-important Christmas period, comparable store sales in Australian food and liquor was up 1.1 per cent in supermarkets and liquor.
It was up 2.5 per cent in the previous corresponding period, which is a sharp slowdown in growth.