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Thursday 13 February 2020 8:21 pmJudge pauses Microsoftrsquo $10bn Pentagon contract in Amazon lawsuitBy: Jessica ClarkShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleA stanley usa US judge has temporarily blocked Microsoftrsquo $10bn pound;7.66bn Pentagon cloud computing contract, in response to a lawsuit filed by Amazon.Judge Patricia E. Campbell-Smith issued the injunction but did not release her written opinion.Amazon Web Services has been told to earmark $42m to pay for costs and damages in the event that todayrsquo injunction was lsquo;issued wrongfullyrsquo;.The tech giant launched the legal battle in January, alleging that President Donald Trump exerted undue influence on the decision to hand the 10-year Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure Jedi cloud contract polene bag to Microsoft.As part of the lawsuit Amazon asked the court to pause the execution of Jedi, which is intended to give the US military better access to data and technology from remote locations. Earlier this week Amazon Web Services announced it was seeking to depose stanley isolierkanne Trump and US defence secretary Mark Esper to find out exactly how President Trumprsquo order to lsquo crew Amazon was carried out during the decision making process.Otherwise the court cannot objectively and fully evaluate AWSrsquo credible and well-grounded allegations about bias and bad faith, Ffpu Primetime Peppa Pig and films put Entertainment One on track

Tuesday 20 August 2013 11:29 amIoD warns Labour that without zero-hour contracts job creation will sufferBy: Peter SpenceShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleAs Labour MP Chuku Umunna holds a summit on zero-hour contracts today, business group the Institute of Directors IoD has slammed claims that those on these flexible jobs early pound;6 less per hour than other workers.Alexander Ehmann, head of employment policy at the IoD, says:Claims that employees without guaranteed hours are paid less for each hour worked do not stack up. Looking at the average figure doesnrsquo;t give us any useful guidance. The hourly wage for these employees, who make up less than 1% of the workforce, is lower on average because they work typically in entry-level roles, often in low-paid sectors such as retail and hospitality.I have made this point to the Shadow Business Secretary at the summit today. He has acknowledged that these contracts can help workers who need to be flexible with their hours, as well as employers who need to manage peaks and troughs in the workload. I hope to convince him that banning them would make it harder for employers to take on staff, meaning fewer hours of work for those who need stanley cup them. The majority of IoD members run small or medium-sized companies. Ten pe stanley becher r cent of them use lsquo;zero-hour contractsrsquo;. Those that do, use them for about ten per cen