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The Walt Disney Company

$150m

The Walt Disney Company has systematically underpaid women, depriving female employees of more than $150m in wages in California since 2015, according to a new analysis of salary data carried out as part of a class-action lawsuit alleging widespread pay gaps at the company. Attorneys for a group of women suing Disney alleged in the state court in Los Angeles that the entertainment and media corporation has paid women an average of 2% less than men doing equivalent jobs, in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act. The case is one of many pay gap class-actions against high-profile companies in recent years.

Anglais Français
to deprive priver
wage salaire
to carry out mener, réaliser
class-action lawsuit action collective, recours collectif en justice
to allege présumer; ici, soupçonner
widespread généralisé
pay gap écart de rémunération
attorney avocat
to sue poursuivre en justice
entertainment divertissement
Equal Pay Act loi sur l’égalité de rémunération
high-profile de grande notoriété, très en vue, influent
Publié le 25 juillet 2023

7

Patients in England will be able to get prescription medicines for seven commonhealth conditions directly from pharmacies under a blueprint designed to ease the pressure on GP appointments. For the first time, pharmacists will be able to write their own prescriptions, under health changes ministers and NHS England chiefs hope will be introduced from this winter, following a consultation with the industry. The seven conditions covered by the proposal are: earache, UTI, sore throat, sinusitis, infected insect bite, impetigo and shingles. It is hoped the measure will help to free up 15 million slots at doctors’ surgeries.

 Anglais Français
prescription (délivré sur) ordonnance
condition maladie
blueprint projet, plan
to design concevoir
to ease alléger, réduire
GP = general practitioner médecin généraliste
NHS = National Health Service système de santé public britannique
earache mal d’oreille, otite
UTI = urinary tract infection infection urinaire
sore throat mal de gorge
bite ici, piqûre
shingles zona
slot créneau (horaire), ici place
surgery intervention chirurgicale
Publié le 2 juin 2023

2032

The Biden administration has proposed the nation’s most ambitious climate regulations to date: two plans designed to ensure that two-thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032. The new rules would require nothing short of a revolution in the American automobile industry. Last year, all-electric vehicles represented only 5.8 percent of new cars sold in the United States. All-electric trucks were even more rare, making up less than 2 percent of new heavy trucks sold.

 Anglais Français
regulation réglementation
to date à ce jour
to design concevoir
to design concevoir
passenger car voiture de tourisme
truck camion
nothing short of rien de moins que, purement (et simplement)
to make, made, made up représenter
Publié le 5 mai 2023