Swiss Life – Employees with foreign sounding names receive “Swiss” alias names

For better chances of a successful contract conclusion, the life insurer uses a “method” that is harshly criticized.   For contacts with its customers, the... »

Novartis Ordered to Hand Over 80,000 Records of `Sham’ Events for Doctors

  Former US Attorney Preet Bharara from New York, claimed Novartis is a repeat offender.   As part of a federal whistleblower lawsuit , the U.S. feder... »

UBS reduces Office Plants to save costs

UBS saves costs with less office plants. Instead of throwing the plants away, employees may take them home.   Cost reductions sometimes germinate strange b... »

Switzerland: Women in leadership, a large gap

Women are not only legally equal with men, they also have equal or higher degrees, qualifications and leadership competences. However at the top corporate level... »

Novartis to cut 500 jobs in Basel. Unions disappointed, population angry.

  Novartis announced that it planned to cut up to 500 jobs in the Basel relocating many to India. The job areas affected were primarily at two production s... »

Glaxo plots buyout of Novartis’ consumer healthcare stake

The Sunday Times reported yesterday that top GSK shareholders had claimed that they had been braced to expect the company to buy out Novartis’s 36.5-percent sta... »

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