The mediator in contract talks between the United Parcel Service and its 2,700 pilots promises to discuss "the next steps" with them as their dispute over wages and retirement benefits threatens to turn into a strike.
For several weeks leading up to Wednesday's opening, it seemed as though Cannes's big show might be upstaged by the long-running soap opera of French labor trouble, as self-employed actors and technicians protesting changes in their unemployment benefits threatened to shut down the festival.
The proposed legislation would make it easier for poor people to get state-financed child care and to keep that care when they gain or lose jobs; allow welfare recipients to receive small windfalls or save money to buy a car without having their benefits threatened; and expand the number of immigrants eligible for food stamps.
For claimants who do not really need the benefit, "threatening" with activation seems to have basically the same effect on their behavior as threatening to take away their benefits altogether.
However, in much of the World, especially in Europe and North America, efforts to manage habitats to benefit threatened species, including for those living in agricultural landscapes, are rising.
By integrating these measures, future agri-environment schemes could benefit threatened species of insectivorous farmland birds as well as many other organisms that profit from habitat heterogeneity at the site scale [3].
"Stopping somebody's benefits, or threatening to stop them, is completely the wrong approach to help people with mental health problems find work – it's actually counterproductive.
Some roads remain pitted with deep potholes after weeks of heavy monsoon rains; many medical workers for the Games were reportedly still waiting for their passes; and north Indian farmers – who have long demanded they be officially listed as low caste to gain more government benefits – were threatening to bring chaos to the city on 3 October by flooding the roads with cattle.
And what better place to start than with the government's draconian trade union bill, which aims to sweep away union opposition to a further round of extreme cuts to public services and in-work benefits by threatening the fundamental right to strike.
They are perceived as outsiders who take jobs, sponge welfare benefits, and threaten social cohesion.
