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Throughout the 1970s, Balfour Beatty expanded its presence in the road construction sector through schemes such as the M73 motorway and the Glasgow Inner Ring Road. Between 1986 and 1995, Balfour Beatty operated Balfour Beatty Homes; after a collapse of the housing market, Balfour Beatty Homes was renamed Clarke Homes and then sold to Westbury ...
Balfour is a developing gold mining and maize farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. R160 Million Fine for Dipaleseng Local Municipality for Misconduct Spanning Five Years Balfour – The Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, Sello Seitlholo, has commended the Balfour Magistrate’s Court for imposing a R160 million fine on the Dipaleseng ...
The company is re-branded as Balfour Beatty Construction. [3] Balfour Beatty Construction has embarked on a series of acquisitions including Charter Builders in 2006, R.T. Dooley [19] and SpawMaxwell in 2009, [20] Barnhart and Charter Builders in 2010, [21] and most recently in June 2011, Howard S. Wright. [22]
Balfour is a town in Raymond Mhlaba Municipality, Amathole District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.. The village, which lies at the foot of the Katberg, was established as a mission station of the Glasgow Missionary Society in 1828 by John Ross and McDiarmid, and named after Robert Balfour, the first secretary of the society.
The common law of South Africa, "an amalgam of principles drawn from Roman, Roman-Dutch, English and other jurisdictions, which were accepted and applied by the courts in colonial times and during the period that followed British rule after Union in 1910," [76] plays virtually no role in collective labour law. Initially, in fact, employment law ...
When the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994, the new government's priorities included redressing apartheid's legacy of economic exclusion. Under apartheid, legislation and practice had restricted the access of non-Whites to job opportunities, capital, business and property ownership, and other forms of economic advancement, leaving vast racial inequalities in wealth and ...
Balfour's introduction of Chinese coolie labour in South Africa enabled the Liberals to counterattack, charging that his measures amounted to "Chinese slavery". [ 31 ] : 355, 376–78 [ 38 ] Likerwise Liberals energised the Nonconformists when they attacked Balfour's Licensing Act 1904 which paid pub owners to close down.
The Daily Telegraph has claimed that the HSE is part of a "compensation culture," that it is undemocratic and unaccountable, [20] and that its rules are costing jobs. [21] However, the HSE denies this, [22] saying that much of the criticism is misplaced because it relates to matters outside the HSE's remit. The HSE also responded to criticism ...