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Administrative Circular No. 22B (Rev. 2) entitled "Compensation for hours of long-term shift work"will be available on 1st September 2016
If you’re on a bike, make sure you’re visible by using lights and wearing high-visibility clothing and a helmet
The flagpole car park will be inaccessible from the morning of 1 September 2016 until around 1 p.m. on 5 September 2016
James Purvis, Human Resources Department Head, on breaching CERN’s code of conduct
CERN owns a fleet of more than 500 bikes and cars, which are available for personnel use
Our dear colleague Roberto Petronzio passed away on 28 July at the age of 67
Eckhard attends the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2016, hosted this year by the US particle physics community
This summer, CERN appeared at various festivals in the UK
