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Judgment was reserved in the financial sector trade union Sasbo's urgent bid in the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Thursday to stop Standard Bank from firing staff, a union official said.newest moncler 2010

"The judge reserved judgment until noon tomorrow (Friday)," said Sasbo spokesperson Eugene Ebersohn.

The two parties had earlier tried to resolve the matter through talks, instead of through court action.

Sasbo was seeking an urgent interdict against Standard Bank Group [JSE:SBK] to stop it firing staff and to return to consultations.

Standard Bank had put forward a proposal to extend consultations with the union over the planned retrenchment of 1 145 permanent employees and 600 contract staff in South Africa.moncler jassen 2010

In terms of the proposal, the bank would by Tuesday make available information sought by Sasbo and hold further consultations with the union on November 23.

However, Sasbo argued that it wanted the proposal to include all staff affected by retrenchment. The proposal excluded employees who were already "on deployment".

"They're sitting at home at the moment," said Sasbo counsel Chris Roodt.

He asked the court to order that the bank be forced to comply with the requirements of section 189 of the Labour Relations Act which related to how retrenchments should be carried out when they were made for operational reasons.
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A sit-down with Jim Christy at Black Hat USA The latest version of the popular franchise easily beat its predecessor and previous record-holder, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," which racked up $310 million in day-one sales, publisher Activision Publishing said Thursday. The sales figures for both games are for North America and the United Kingdom only.

"Call of Duty: Black Ops" marks the second consecutive year that the franchise has set a day-one launch record. Released Nov. 9, retailers sold 5.6 million copies of the game in the first 24 hours. In addition, an unprecedented 12,000 retailers held midnight openings to meet demand among got-to-have-it-first fans.

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Bobby Kotick, chief executive of parent Activision Blizzard, said in a statement that the video game is on track to beat last year's five-day global sales record of $550 million for "Modern Warfare 2." More than 25 million gamers play some version of "Call of Duty," connecting with each other through the game's online component.

"Call of Duty" is available for PCs and all the major video game consoles, including the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The game, first released in October 2003, is also available on handheld consoles, the Apple iPhone and Resarch in Motion's BlackBerry.

The success of "Black Ops" is good news for the video game industry, since software sales help to drive console sales. In September, overall sales of the industry at physical retail stores was down 8% year over year, which followed a 10% drop in August. However, sales for the rest of the year are expected to improve, given the scheduled release of popular games and the release of the Kinect and the Move, motion-sensing add-ons for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, respectively. moncler down jacket