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The golden wedding anniversary of King Carl XVI could be more Swedish. Gustaf and Queen Silvia barely lie down. Just in time for Midsummer, the couple will have been married for 50 years. Despite some low points in her marriage, Silvia finds loving words.
Anyone who has become a father or mother often takes parental leave. So that employees can look after their offspring without worrying about their professional future, they are entitled to special protection against dismissal after submitting an application in accordance with Section 18 Paragraph 1 of the Federal Parental Allowance and Parental Leave Act (BEEG). The Federal Labor Court (BAG) decided on Thursday that this protection does not only apply once, but “before every period” when parental leave is divided. Info BAG, judgment of June 18, 2026, Ref. 2 AZR 213/25 LAG Hamm, judgment of November 5, 2025, Ref. 11…
The PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, has insisted that the party maintains “trust” in the former president of the Government José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and asks that the presumption of innocence be respected while the investigation into the case progresses. Plus Ultra case. “There are politicians who are turning this into a lynching in which President Zapatero has already been condemned even before he was going to make his first statement before the judge,” he denounced in an interview on TVE. For his part, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun (Comuns Sumar), assured this Thursday that the former president should have…
Human resources: Mr. Wippermann, in your opinion, what is the most important point for companies to successfully implement the requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive and the resulting law in Germany?Frank Wippermann: The implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive will probably result in an amended Pay Transparency Act in Germany. Many companies are confronted with the question of how they define work of equal value. The most important point is: Companies must develop a comprehensible methodology to evaluate jobs. A transparent remuneration system is based on this. Many people then say: “Our legal department does that.” This sentence…
The operator, wearing a mask and gloves, tears the bundle with a knife to extract the 20 brick-shaped packages of cocaine weighing one kilo that are inside. With a mechanical gesture, he immediately throws them onto a conveyor belt at his feet and where those thrown by a colleague who is busy, like him, emptying one after another the burlap sacks that are piled up on a pallet also fall. They do all this surrounded by four agents from the Reserve and Security Groups (GRS) of the Civil Guard who, armed with assault rifles, do not take their eyes off…
An event about anti-Semitism in Bayreuth was canceled due to alleged security concerns. The author Michel Friedman was supposed to speak there – and was outraged. Now festival director Katharina Wagner is rowing back, according to a media report.
Companies are under economic pressure. Restructuring is therefore not a cosmetic measure, but rather a strategic decision for future viability. This is precisely why the actual work begins not after dismantling, but before. First strategy, then savings: the vision of the future as a mandatory foundation Restructuring is not a linear sequence, but rather the conscious interlinking of conversion, dismantling and construction. Structures are being reorganized, capacities are being adjusted, and skills are being developed in a targeted manner. A roadmap for people, culture and organization synchronizes these dimensions with the corporate strategy – not reactively, but proactively. Restructuring without…
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has demanded from the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the same level of demand against cases of corruption that affect Ayuso as for those of the Government or the PSOE. “The level of demand that is applied to everyone, will be practiced internally with the news that we have just learned about Mrs. Ayuso’s partner,” he said, in reference to the news that Alberto González Amador invoiced 4.4 million euros to the company Quironsalud. Sánchez has shown the PSOE’s “backing, empathy and support” for former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero after…
Germany failed miserably in the UN Security Council election. CDU Foreign Minister Wadephul initially ruled out wanting to pay less in the future. Now it sounds different – and thus offends the coalition partner.
This Thursday, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez launched a new hoax in defense of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her partner, Alberto González Amador. The main advisor to the president of Madrid has described as “false” and “insidious” the information published by EL PAÍS that reveals that González Amador invoiced the Quirónsalud group 4.4 million euros in three years, from 2021 to 2023, the first of their courtship. Continue reading