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Tax tribunal exposes £14m avoidance trick by DP World
Author: Simon Bowers, Guardian (UK)
A complex and aggressive attempt to avoid UK tax on an international ports business controlled by the billionaire ruler of Dubai has been thrown out by a tax tribunal, which branded the scheme "an elaborate trick". The scheme would have secured £14m...
- Related stories: UK court exposes attempt to avoid tax on intl. ports business by Dubai-owned DP World
- Related companies: Carnival DP World Dubai World P&O (part of Dubai World)
Cruise group launches safety review [Italy]
Author: Guy Dinmore, Giulia Segreti & Eleonora de Sabata, Financial Times
The parent of the cruise line whose vessel hit rocks off the Italian coast last Friday says it is launching a "comprehensive audit and review of all safety and emergency response procedures" across all its 10 cruise lines. In one of his first public...
- Related stories: Italy: Costa cruise ship runs aground, capsizes, killing 6 with 14 still missing - captain arrested, company (part of Carnival) says he made "serious errors of judgment"
- Related companies: Cunard Line (part of Carnival) Holland America Line (part of Carnival) P&O (part of Dubai World) Princess Cruises (part of Carnival)
Cruise line given power over schoolies [Australia]
Author: Sydney Morning Herald
Carnival Australia, which operates P&O Cruises, asked the Australian Human Rights Commission for a temporary exemption from the Age Discrimination Act. The cruise operator argued that teenagers taking part in the end-of-school celebrations put the...
- Related companies: Carnival P&O (part of Dubai World)
Corporate manslaughter law is a vast improvement [UK]
Author: Gary Slapper, Professor of Law, and Director of the Centre for Law, at the Open University, in Times [UK]
Globally, more people are killed each year at work than are killed in wars. How the law responds is important, and the UK’s new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act is a significant improvement on earlier legislation. [refers to GWT, P ...
- Related stories: U.K. corporate manslaughter legislation approved
- Related companies: P&O (part of Dubai World)
'Jibe' transsexual wins her case [UK]
Author: BBC
A transsexual ferry crew member has been awarded [£64,862] compensation after a tribunal found she endured verbal and physical harassment at work [on a P&O ferry]...A tribunal report stated: "For nearly two years prior to her resignation, the...
- Related stories: UK: P&O admits discrimination against transsexual worker
- Related companies: Carnival P&O (part of Dubai World)
Ferry transsexual suffered jibes [UK]
Author: BBC
A transsexual crew member...claims unfair constructive dismissal against P&O Ferries [part of Carnival]. The firm admits sexual discrimination but told the tribunal in Southampton Ms Marland was offered other work but she was only interested in...
- Related stories: UK: P&O admits discrimination against transsexual worker
- Related companies: Carnival P&O (part of Dubai World)
Travel Companies Quit Burma - Austrian Airlines, Eastravel and Frommers Guides drop Burma
Author: Burma Campaign UK
Austrian Airlines, Eastravel and Frommers Guides drop Burma. The three companies have joined the growing exodus of companies ending their promotion of tourism to Burma. They join Carnival Corporation/P&O, Magic of the Orient and Explorers Tours,...
- Related companies: Austrian Airlines Carnival P&O (part of Dubai World)
Labour reneges on 10-year pledge to introduce corporate killing law [UK]
Author: Andrew Grice, Independent [UK]
Campaigners for a new law on corporate killing say that about 3,000 workers and 1,000 members of the public have died in work-related incidents in the past 10 years. But only 11 companies have been prosecuted and just four of them, all small...
Author: Europa Press
La nueva 'Lista Sucia' de compañías que operan en Birmania, elaborada por la ONG británica Burma Campaign UK, incluye a 37 multinacionales nuevas entre las que se encuentran la aseguradora británica Lloyds of London, la proveedora de servicios a...
- Related companies: Alcatel (now Alcatel-Lucent) Austrian Airlines Carnival Daewoo International (part of Posco) Deutsche Post DHL (part of Deutsche Post) Ericsson EY (Ernst & Young) Lloyd's of London Lonely Planet Orient Express P&O (part of Dubai World) PricewaterhouseCoopers Rolls-Royce plc Total WPP