周六周日主題: 2/2-2/3 公共安全/ 年終紅利

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Questions:

1. What are the measures to prevent fire accidents?

2. How to prevent nightclub fire accidents?

3. Ways to prevent home fires?

4. How to save yourself or your family in emergency situations?

Brazil club owner, members of band held after deadly fire

By Ana Flor, Reuters

SANTA MARIA, Brazil--Relatives of the 231 people who died in a Brazilian nightclub fire demanded answers on Monday as to how it could have killed so many people, while police questioned the club's owner and members of the band whose pyrotechnics show allegedly caused the tragedy.

Several coffins, many draped with flags of the victims' favorite soccer teams, lined a gymnasium that has become a makeshift morgue since the fire in the early hours on Sunday, one of the world's deadliest such incidents in a decade.

The death toll was revised down overnight from 233 to 231, as officials said some names had been counted twice.

Eighty-two people remained hospitalized in and around the southern city of Santa Maria. At least 30 of them were in serious condition.

As shell-shocked residents attended a marathon of funerals starting in the pre-dawn hours on Monday, the focus began to shift to what will likely be a barrage of police investigations, lawsuits and recriminations aimed at politicians and others.

“We can't trust in the ability of city hall, or the police, or anybody who permits a party with more a thousand people under these conditions,” said Erica Weber, who was accompanying her daughter to a funeral for one of her classmates.

Most of the dead were suffocated by toxic fumes that rapidly filled the Kiss nightclub after the band set off a pyrotechnics display at about 2:30 a.m, witnesses said.

State prosecutor Valeska Agostini told Reuters one of the club's owners and members of the band had been taken into police custody to answer questions although no arrests or criminal charges are likely until after the investigation is completed.

The band's guitarist, Rodrigo Lemos Martins, 32, said he doubted the band was responsible for the blaze. “There were lots of wires (in the ceiling), maybe it was a short circuit,” Folha de S.Paulo newspaper quoted him as saying.

The band's accordion player, Danilo Jaques, 30, was among those killed but the other five members survived.

It seems certain others will share the blame for Brazil's second-deadliest fire ever. The use of a flare inside the club was a clear breach of security regulations, fire officials said, and witnesses said bouncers initially tried to prevent people from fleeing from the one functioning exit because they believed they were trying to skip out on their bar tabs.

Clubs and restaurants in Brazil are generally subject to a web of overlapping safety regulations, but enforcement is uneven and owners sometimes pay bribes to continue operating.

Questions:

1. Should a boss give employees a bonus?

2. Does your company give annual bonus?

And how much money do you expect?

3. Tips on How to Tell your boss: “Want Bonus This Year?

4. Tips on How to Tell an Employee: “No Bonus This Year?

Year-end bonus average touches three-year low (By Linger Liu)

The average year-end bonus for 2013, equivalent to 1.11 months' average salary, hit its lowest point for the last three years, with 23.1 percent of entrepreneurial business owners saying bonuses for this year are sure to decrease.

Year-end bonuses are traditionally distributed before Chinese New Year, which is set to take place on Feb. 10, 2013. According to human resources firm 104 Job Bank, the insurance and banking sectors will offer the highest bonuses, compared with less favorable bonuses of the business, industrial and service sectors. Bonuses for the three sectors is expected to average around 1.3 months' salary.

Export Decline Primary Cause

Due to the euro debt crisis and the poor performance of exports, in addition to other variables associated with trade between Taiwan and the U.S. and mainland China, this year's average year-end bonus for workers in the manufacturing sector is estimated to reach roughly 1.11 months' salary. The same sector saw 1.25 months' salary last year, and 1.4 months' salary in 2011. This year's decline is due in part to a reduction in export growth. Among entrepreneurial business owners, 8.4 percent said that they are not able to offer any annual bonus this year. This marks a 1-percent increase from 2012.

Finance and Insurance Sectors Going Strong

The sector comprised of banking, finance and insurance firms will be offering 1.3 months' salary as a year-end bonus. Law, accounting, consultancy, technology, media and communication firms' bonuses will average 1.26 months. Transportation and logistics services are to offer bonuses of 1.25 months' salary, while the high-tech manufacturing sectors' bonuses average out at 1.2 months.

In terms of lower annual income sectors, education-related ventures average around 0.74 months' salary; the service industry at 0.76 months; tourism/leisure/sports at 0.86 months; and the catering/hospitality sector reaching a high average of 0.87 months, with other sectors such as agriculture, fishing, farming and power generation averaging at around 0.96 months' salary.

According to 104 Job Bank, 30.2 percent of high-tech manufacturers are reducing their annual bonuses compared to last year, amounting to the largest decline of any sector. Traditional manufacturers will hand out bonuses worth 1.13 months' salary, a decline of 0.2 percent. The declines from these sectors are representative of a drop in exports for 2012.

Only four out of 15 sectors that participated in the survey plan to increase their year-end bonuses. The banking and finance consultancy sector's increase to 0.36 months' salary ranked highest among the 15.

The job bank's survey was conducted between Oct. 20 and Nov. 25, with 1,749 companies participating and a margin of error of plus or minus 2.34 percentage points.