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Amid job cuts and transformation, VW has not had a human resources director for around a year. However, that could soon change. According to research by Correctiv.org, Erika Rasch is probably the most promising candidate for the position. Rasch currently works as Head of Corporate People & Culture at Bosch and reports to the head of human resources, Stefan Grosch. If she actually gets the position at Volkswagen, this would be her first board mandate. However, this has not yet been decided. Correctiv learned from “three people familiar with the events” that Rasch’s appointment was supposed to be decided at…
The Provincial Court of Madrid has given the green light for the trial by popular jury against Begoña Gómez, wife of Pedro Sánchez, to continue for two crimes: influence peddling and embezzlement. The court thus partially endorses Judge Juan Carlos Peinado’s decision to send the Prime Minister’s partner to the bench, to whom he attributed four crimes (in addition to the previous ones, business corruption and misappropriation). The court agreed, in turn, to return the passport to the wife of the PSOE leader and his assistant in La Moncloa, Cristina Álvarez, after the magistrate took them away and prohibited them…
The federal ministers met yesterday for the second time as a so-called relief cabinet. Since the first meeting on November 5, 2024, 43 measures have already been decided on as part of the modernization agenda for the state and administration, affecting all departments. This also included an immediate program to reduce bureaucracy in occupational safety, which will eliminate around 123,000 safety officers in small and medium-sized companies. According to the information, the second cabinet will now add ten more reliefs. The aim of the measures is to reduce bureaucratic costs by 25 percent annually and to streamline administration. According to…
Just two days ago, the French video game giant Ubisoft congratulated itself on the successful launch of its video game Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. He remake of the popular 2013 game had managed to sell more than two million copies in just 24 hours. And beyond the market response, users were rewarding it with high scores and good comments, which especially highlighted the underwater levels of the title. These screens, precisely, had been created from the company’s Barcelona office, which networked with colleagues in Singapore and Canada. However, in the Catalan capital there is little to celebrate. After two…
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has been under Russian control since spring 2022. Shelling continues to cause danger in Zaporizhzhia. Now, according to Russian information, there was a drone attack on an official vehicle.
At the company party, Tobias finds out that his colleague earns 17,000 euros more. Claudia does the same work as her male colleagues, but has a different title. Using tricky practical scenarios, we show when employees really have a right to information – and how HR can react in a legally compliant manner. Part 2 of 4. The topic of pay transparency is of concern to HR professionals – even if the federal government has not yet presented a new pay transparency law (EntgTranspG) to implement the EU directive. The existing law already provides for rights to information and the…
The Generalitat Firefighters have managed to stabilize the fire in Sant Quirze Safaja, in Barcelona, which has led to the preventive confinement of several houses and a rural hostel and the evacuation of a campsite and a campsite. The Government of Aragon has ordered the evacuation of the residents of Orés (72 inhabitants), Asín (88 inhabitants) and Luesia (332), in Zaragoza, through an Es-Alert message, due to a forest fire that has already burned at least 140 hectares and that had forced the intervention of the Military Emergency Unit (UME). The forest area burned in Spain now amounts to 62,215…
For years, France debated whether terminally ill people should be allowed to take lethal drugs. The National Assembly in Paris has now passed a corresponding law – but with numerous restrictions.
There is no truce in Aragon this summer. In the last 20 days, seven fires have been declared in the autonomous territory. The last one, on the morning of this Wednesday, in the town of Orés, in the Zaragoza region of Cinco Villas, which at this time is advancing uncontrollably and has already caused the eviction of around 400 people in total from three municipalities in the area (Orés, Asín and Luesia). In addition, two nursing homes have been evacuated, and they have been moved to another center in the Aragonese capital. The Government of Aragon – which met this…
The Munich labor court recently had to decide whether an employee of the local transport company could refuse to use the train because the vehicle carried outdoor advertising for the troops. As a recognized conscientious objector and pacifist, he could not drive the vehicle – and that had to be taken into account in the roster. His employer didn’t find this funny, filed a counterclaim and won. Why did the lawsuit before the Munich Labor Court fail? Since the man had only been assigned to drive the tram in question “in about one and three quarters of a year so…