AFP - Britain's economy expanded by an impressive 0.8 percent in the third quarter of 2007, shrugging off the impact of the global credit crunch, according to official data published Friday.

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AFP - The British and French finance ministers will present a joint initiative to their EU partners next month on tax reductions for "green" products, a European Commission spokeswoman said Friday.

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Let's say you are a supervisor in an Information Technology (IT) company and have hired a new computer programmer right out of college. How to Handle Different Types of Employee Insubordination. (Don't dismiss everyone in a group meeting because this is an undignified way of terminating employees and can lead to lawsuits.) How do you layoff him without a big litigation? An problem individual is a danger to the firm, other personnel and himself. Its goal is to "fix" the problem worker. Don't give your opinions to the corroborators. He made me angry is not a good reason, but "I could not trust him to complete projects on time" is. However at times you can handle the circumstance yourself. After conducting your probe or reaching the final step in the progressive discipline process, it is time to prepare for the dismissal. I have decided to fire you from employment at effective immediately. Before reading a review of TREPS in the next section, let me first officially define separation risk.