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Former Apprentice candidate Katie Hopkins says she was made a "scapegoat" after being fired from her real job.
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[Hollywood News]: New York, Nov 11 : Liza Minnelli has landed herself in a controversial legal suit as her former assistant has accused her of beating him in drunken rages and forcing him to have sex with her against his will.
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But blame shared, says Tribunal A woman whose email insults about her boss caused her to be sacked was unfairly dismissed, an Employment Tribunal has ruled. But she will not be reinstated and will only receive compensation of 12.5 per cent of her losses because she was 75 per cent to blame.â¦
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A former employee says he was harassed and fired after complaining about another employee's singing along to lyrics that included racial epithets.
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Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has been sued for fraud and breach of contract by an ex-husband, who claims she hired him to manage her restaurant just long enough to get it up and running, then fired him.
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The CBS network said on Wednesday   that an overzealous employee in its publicity department was   responsible for air-brushing about 20 pounds off Katie Couric's   figure in a recent promotional photo.
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The CBS network said on Wednesday  that an overzealous employee in its publicity department was  responsible for air-brushing about 20 pounds off Katie Couric's  figure in a recent promotional photo.
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The state yesterday rehired the poster child for the mutual fund scandal and fired the industry&#39;s current golden child. The Massachusetts state pension fund
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By The Associated Press  Events leading up to the boardroom scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. over the company's investigation of media leaks:  - Feb. 9, 2005: Board member Patricia Dunn announces that Chief Executive Carleton Fiorina has been fired.
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(InfoWorld) - The attorney for ousted Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn fired back Wednesday at public comments made by board rival Thomas Perkins about theÂ HP pretexting scandal. "Mr. Perkins...has made the biggest mistake of his career. He is a bully, and he is bullying the wrong people," said James Brosnahan, attorney for Dunn, in a statement in response to what Brosnahan called a "gratuitous attack" on his client in a speech Perkins gave Tuesday in San Francisco. In an appearance at the VentureOne Outlook Conference, a gathering of venture capitalists, Perkins said the HP dispute about how to control leaks of board deliberations to the media was really a fight for control of the board, which Dunn won, according to media reports of his speech. Perkins also lamented that many corporate boards, including HP's, have turned from being "guidance" boards into "compliance" boards. Rather than advising the company on how to run its business as a "guidance" style director, "compliance" directors are increasingly focused on maintaining compliance with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations governing publicly traded companies. He described Dunn as a compliance-style director, according to the reports. Dunn was indicted in October 2006 on four felony counts in California state court for authorizing an investigation into HP board member leaks to the media. Investigators hired by HP allegedly used false pretenses, or "pretexting," to get phone companies to divulge calling records for people they were investigating. A former legal counsel for HP and two private detectives hired by HP are also facing trial. The scandal broke in September 2006 because Perkins demanded the company publicly state, in an SEC filing, why he quit the board four months earlier. Because the state case is still awaiting trial, Dunn can't directly respond to Perkins' remarks, but her attorney had plenty to say. "Mr. Perkins generated an attack on Patricia Dunn, hired lawyers, hired a public relations firm, and all because his colleague on the Hewlett-Packard board [Jay Keyworth] was found to be leaking information. Now he is attempting to further prejudice the public against Patricia Dunn," Brosnahan wrote. Perkins quit the board when Keyworth was outed as the director who leaked information to the media. In his statement, Brosnahan said Perkins is likely to be called as a witness in Dunn's trial. He also accused Perkins of publicly criticizing Dunn to draw attention to Perkins' soon-to-be-published book, which is expected to touch on the pretexting scandal. A call to Perkins' office was not immediately returned.
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Nicholls State football coach Daryl Daye was fired Sunday over accusations of academic fraud involving players and an assistant coach. Daye was not implicated in the alleged fraud, but an investigation found he failed to "maintain proper controls" of the assistant, the Southland Conference school said.
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A Chinese woman is suing her former employer after falling victim to the company policy of firing staff who contradict their boss three times, local media reported on Thursday.
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A director of PeopleSoft said that Craig A. Conway, the company's chief, was fired in part because he made false statements at an analysts' conference in September 2003.
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By Phil Villarreal, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 15--The factory that made her also spit her out.
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Thompson played down a staff member's departure and a New Hampshire supporter's defection Wednesday
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An ex-husband of Jennifer Lopez sued her for alleged breach of contract, claiming he was wrongly fired as the manager of her restaurant in Pasadena.
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A board member testifies Monday that the former CEO was fired in large part because of his reckless exaggeration to Wall Street analysts.