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Equal Pay For Women Becomes Law In Iceland, Startup CariClub, Dropped Merger Deal

Richard Bradbury | Majidah Hashim | Arvindh Yuvaraj

03-Jan-18 12:00

Equal Pay For Women Becomes Law In Iceland, Startup CariClub, Dropped Merger Deal

On today’s edition of Enterprise Biz Bytes, Richard Bradbury, Majidah Hashim and Arvindh Yuvaraj spoke about:

 

1:12 - Iceland Becomes The First Country To Make It Illegal To Pay Men More Than Women

8:02 - Meet The Startup Helping Employees Join Non-Profit Junior Boards At Companies Like Citigroup And KKR

12:44 - The World’s Largest Clothing Maker Isn’t Betting On Automation Replacing Cheap Human Labour

20:51 - MoneyGram, Ant Financial Drop $1.2 Billion Merger Deal After U.S. Balks

29:30 - Sitting Is The New Smoking


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