Ceo Wanted, English Not Required

摘要

From the Afrikaans accent of the doormen at its smart hotels to the east European lilt of waiters in its restaurants London's workforce is unmistakably global. Yet one unlikely pocket of discrimination remains. The jobs of running Rolls Royce and bae Systems-Britain's biggest aerospace and defence firms-are reserved for British citizens, an anomaly that both firms are lobbying hard to end.rnThe two argue that they should be allowed to scour the world for talent, as other firms do. Only 64 of the bosses of the 100 biggest firms on the ftse share index are British, reckons Odgers, Ray & Berndt-son, a headhunting firm. Rolls Royce is not anxious to see the back of its boss, Sir John Rose. But bae wants to replace Mike Turner by August, and it has some able Americans, along with a couple of Britons and a continental European, in mind.