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Deloitte joins the rest of the Big Four - staff to receive overtime
I'm not at all surprised that you'll find my site if you Google big four Canada overtime - I already pointed out that three of the big four are paying out overtime to their non-CA staff and seniors . n.b. provincial laws treat CA, CGA, CMA and CPA and students registered to study for those designations as "professionals" ineligible for overtime pay, regardless of rank. Well now it turns out that all of the big four are doing it - Deloitte & Touche has joined the party . A kind reader who worked for Deloitte pointed this out to me - Deloitte's non-CA staff's overtime hours are about to stop being "unpaid". The news isn't that fresh, but this isn't the sort of thing you see on the front page of the newspaper - unless you Googled "deloitte Canada overtime" you might not be aware of it. All the facts for Deloitte are available at the website they setup otplan.ca - a URL which redirects straight to a deloitte.com page . The general details...
While rushing to work this morning, I wondered how they found the London car bomb
It turns out some medics rushing to treat someone at a nightclub noticed a car filling with smoke, Time reports. Savvy bomb-makers know to use cars with tinted windows, I suppose. Seriously - I've seen one photo of the car so far, and you can clearly see from the rear passenger window through the rear window. No tint. It'd be a stretch to think that this stroke of luck would lead government officials to ban all tinted windows in a vain hope for a repeat of this luck. But then again, they banned nail clippers from airplanes. Ridiculous. At least there's a new argument to use on co-workers who believe coming to work in the downtown core is somehow dangerous: some recently arrested plotters were recorded saying that they were justifying their attacks on nightclubs by arguing that they're dens of vice and immorality, therefore they 'deserve it', according to their twisted logic. So clubbing is more dangerous now, terrorism-wise, then going to work. How oddly reassuring...