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Two RIM employees face heavy fines after plane diverted over their drunkeness 

BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion suspended two employees on Thursday after their drunken rowdiness forced an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Beijing to be diverted to Vancouver and a court ordered them to pay US$70,699.49 (CA71,757) in restitution.

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Norway Justice employees missing after massacre (AP)

People gather outside Oslo City Hall to participate in a 'rose march' in memory of the victims of Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre, Norway, Monday, July 25, 2011. Anders Behring Breivik has admitted bombing Norway's capital and opening fire on a political youth group retreat, but he entered a plea of not guilty, saying he wanted to save Europe from Muslim immigration. Police announced Monday that they had dramatically overcounted the number of people slain in a shooting spree at a political youth group's island retreat and were lowering the confirmed death toll from 86 to 68. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP – Norway’s justice minister told reporters Tuesday that employees from his department are still missing after a bombing at government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting spree on a nearby island that killed at least 76. Police plan to start publicly naming the dead for the first time Tuesday.


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200 News of the World employees to be laid off (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, which publishes the News of the World tabloid, arrives at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England. Britain's long-running phone hacking scandal took a twist Tuesday, July 5, 2011, with claims that a the News of the World hacked into the phone mail of an abducted teenage girl and may have hampered the police investigation into her disappearance. Brooks said in an email to her staff that the 'strongest possible' actions would be taken if the charges were found to be true. Brooks said in the email that she had no knowledge of the alleged hacking and that she would not resign. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)AP – News International says shuttering the scandal-wracked News of the World will cost about 200 tabloid staffers their jobs.


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Bam! More than 100 White House employees rake in AT LEAST 100K

The recession that devastated America’s workers has spared President Obama’s employees.

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Egypt approves 15 percent raise for govt employees (AP)

Anti-government protesters sit and lie inside the tracks of an Egyptian Army tank, both to prevent them from moving and to shield themselves from the rain, at the protest site opposite the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press and to release those detained since anti-government protests began, though Al-Jazeera's English-language news network said one of its correspondents had been detained the same day by the Egyptian military. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP – Egypt’s embattled regime announced Monday a 15 percent increase in salaries and pensions in the latest attempt to defuse popular anger amid protests demanding President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster.


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‘We’re not perverts’: TSA employees

Airport pat-downs may be uncomfortable for holiday travelers, but they’re no picnic for Transportation Security Administration employees either.

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Wal-Mart ends profit sharing with employees (AP)

FILE - In this March 14, 2006 file photo, the Wal-Mart store in Princeton, N.J. is seen. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, plans to end automatic profit-sharing contributions for its employees in a revamp of its benefits package that it says will give workers more chance to share in its financial success.  (AP Photo/Jose F. Moreno, File)AP – Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest private employer, plans to end automatic profit-sharing contributions for its employees in a revamp of its benefits package that it says will give workers more chance to share in its financial success.


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