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The best of this week's business news: spending tanks, battered banks and bad-taste pranks...

Management Today 16-May-08

BA soars but Walsh goes without

Despite record profits for BA last year, CEO Willie Walsh has sensibly decided to forego his bonus...

Management Today 16-May-08

Yahoo scrap looms as Icahn launches coup

They've already rebuffed Bill Gates, but Yahoo's directors might find Carl Icahn a tougher proposition...

Management Today 16-May-08

PM outlines major changes in workplace rights

The prime minister has outlined plans to improve employees’ skills, give agency workers more rights and get more people off benefits and into work over the next year.

Human Resources 16-May-08

An ill wind for Selectabase

Breaking wind at girls might be hilarious for 12-year-old boys - but it's hardly best practice at work...

Management Today 16-May-08

Dealing with surprises, with YouTube

Learn how to handle the unexpected, with Magnolia, Trap Door and Shaun of the Dead.

Management Today 15-May-08

BBC Parliament in for the high jump

Here's news to upset armchair politicians - the BBC is ditching Parliament TV during the Beijing Olympics.

Management Today 15-May-08

DSG's Currys feeling the heat

Electronics giant DSGi announces plans to shake up its stalling business, but are they enough?

Management Today 15-May-08

Ben bows out as BT prospers

Ben Verwaayen's stint as boss of BT will end on a high note - revenues are up to £20bn and profits stable.

Management Today 15-May-08

Senior managers get better benefits than their superiors

Senior managers get more perks than their higher-ranking colleagues, according to a new Croner report.

It finds that, while employees at senior-manager level work up to 12.6 hours fewer than directors or operational staff within the same organisation, they gain more benefits.

For example, 72% are in a final-salary pension scheme, compared with 49% of directors and 39% of operatives. Also, senior managers in larger companies, on average, get a company car worth £25,525. They also get longer holiday entitlement and a daily business trip allowance worth £24 more than operative staff.

“These latest results are very much in line with the patterns that we are seeing across terms and conditions generally,” says Andrew Walker, business director, Croner Reward. “Directors are working longer hours than their colleagues at manager level, yet they are in turn receiving less in benefits. But we need to look at the results over the next few years to see whether this is a long-term trend, or just part of the changing dynamics in the workplace.”

Human Resources 15-May-08