The tax will also apply to capital gains but it remains unclear how self-employed workers from farmers to doctors will
The tax will also apply to capital gains but it remains unclear how self-employed workers, from farmers to doctors, will be expected to contribute.Trades unions and employers called the scheme a bureaucratic nightmare in the making. Joan Saura, leader of Catalonia’s left-wing Green Initiative party, condemned the ruling as “unbelievable and grotesque”. Mr Saura’s party could hold the balance of power after regional elections on Sunday week.Barcelona’s High Court said that although the building company provided no protective equipment the blame for the accident lay with Enrique Poci?for agreeing to work without safety measures. The court overturned a damages award of €380,000 (£260,000).. The french must work an extra day each year, they learnt yesterday, to finance aid for the elderly to prevent a repeat of last summer’s heat-wave disaster in which 15,000 old people died.
A builder who was left paralysed after a fall at work was blamed for the accident by a Barcelona court yesterday, a decision which scandalised politicians campaigning in the Catalan regional elections.
Spain’s Labour Minister, Eduardo Zaplana, said he disagreed with the court ruling, although he would abide by it. Workers in the private sector must agree, after negotiations with employers, to give up any bank holiday or rest day.The value of the extra labour will be given to the state as a 0.3 per cent tax on employers, which will be put into a special fund for the elderly and handicapped. A P&O spokeswoman said only one passenger was still showing signs of the illness.. The first person Prince Charles turned to last night was inevitably his trusted private secretary Sir Michael Peat.
Health officials were meeting managers on the ship to talk about the virus in a standard procedure. They say staff sprayed the ship with chemicals to contain the virus and passengers with the virus were confined to their rooms.The ship docked at Southampton’s Mayflower Cruise Terminal at 6am with passengers disembarking from 8.30am. Passengers well enough to go ashore had to hand in their passports so they could not cross into Spain, but the border remained closed until the liner left.Some passengers have threatened P&O Cruises with legal action over the cruise, which they said was like being in hospital. After passengers became ill it was refused permission to dock at Piraeus in Greece. When the ship entered Gibraltar on Monday, Spain closed the border with the Rock for the first time in 18 years, fearing the illness might cross into the country. Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, called the move “unnecessary and disproportionate”.