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Note 4 - EMPLOYMENT COSTS

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Note		 2008
US$m		 2007
US$m
Employment costs
- Wages and salaries 6,414 3,618
- Social security costs 113 106
- Net post retirement cost (a) 49 502 240
- Share option (credit)/charge (b) 48 (22) 220
7,007 4,184
Less: charged within provisions (404) (357)
6,603 3,827

Notes Expand
  1. Post retirement costs include the aggregate service and interest cost of providing post retirement benefits under defined benefit plans, net of the related expected return on plan assets. Additional detail of the amount charged to the income statement in respect of post retirement plans, and the treatment of actuarial gains and losses, is shown in note 49.

  2. Further details of the Group's share options and other share based payment plans are given in note 48.



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