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Breach of official duties? According to SPIEGEL research, politician Samet Yilmaz is said to have arranged for a private contact to be checked in a secret service database. It wouldn’t be the only border crossing.
Continued wage payments for sickness-related absences cost German companies around 82 billion euros in 2024. This represents a doubling within 14 years. Some companies rely on bonus payments to encourage their employees to attend more – so-called attendance bonuses. But a study published in 2024 by scientists Jakob Alfitian, Dirk Sliwka and Timo Vogelsang shows: Such financial incentives do not work – or even worsen the problem by increasing absenteeism. More on the topic
“It’s very nice to have wolves and have others feed them,” complains Fernando Moreno, a 46-year-old rancher, when summarizing the feelings of his colleagues in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, and of himself, every time his cows and sheep suffer an attack from this animal. A problem, he says, that has worsened in the last 15 years. Moreno, like his colleagues, opposes the request that Ecologists in Action and the Fund for the Protection of the Iberian Wolf has sent to the Government of Castilla-La Mancha so that, within a maximum period of three months, it commits to implementing a…
A sensitive data protection incident occurred at Volkswagen Group Services that affected around 600 employees. As Der Spiegel reports, information about absences of specific employees is said to have been passed on internally. Details of the absences are said to have been discussed in conferences with different managers. Volkswagen Group Services provides services and, within this framework, provides personnel for technical services or logistics for the Volkswagen Group. The company informed employees of the data protection violation in a letter. Volkswagen Group Services confirmed the incident to our editorial team and announced: “The necessary internal processes to clarify the matter…
Three people died in Runkel near Limburg as a result of a “damage event that has not been conclusively clarified”. The incident occurred at a leather factory and fur tannery. According to the authorities, there is no danger to the population.
If you were fortunate enough to see the bullfight, stay with what you experienced, with that mysterious collective commotion that took over La Maestranza at the hands of a genius called Morante de la Puebla.If you haven’t seen it, close your eyes and dream of an unequal, virtuoso, shocking, surprising, baroque work, a display of improvisation by an artist who is not from this world, capable of hypnotizing and with a supernatural capacity unbecoming of current bullfighting.Morante is the god of Sevillian bullfighting, of bullfighting in Spain, in the world, in the entire universe, wherever you want, because he is…
The psychiatrist on trial for the death of an acute patient in Córdoba and facing an eight-year prison sentence, Carmen Prada, argued this Thursday at the oral hearing that the patient did not intend to commit suicide, as the victim’s family has repeatedly maintained. “The patient had a risk of not controlling his behavior, but he did not have suicidal intentions,” alleged the head of mental health at the Reina Sofía Hospital, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office is requesting four years in prison. The private prosecution increases the sentence to eight years for two involuntary homicides, since it considers her…
Stihl gets a new human resources director. The previous CHRO Dr. Michael Prochaska will retire at the end of August. He is followed by Dr. Ulrich Braig. He will begin his work at Stihl on June 1st – so there will be a common transition period – and then from September 1st he will take full responsibility for the board’s legal and human resources departments for the next three years. Dr. Nikolas Stihl, Chairman of the Stihl Advisory Board and Supervisory Board, said in the statement about Braig: “As a doctor of law, he has extensive management experience in human…
A girl is said to have been raped in a Berlin youth club. But the employees and the youth welfare office do not report anything. Because of the alleged perpetrator’s migration background or because everyone just wanted to protect the victim?
The fight against jihadist terrorism is increasingly moving to cyberspace. Last year, Spanish security forces promoted the removal of 14,411 violent content from the Internet, mostly linked to the most radical Islam and, to a lesser extent, far-right extremism and white supremacy. The figure means that each day 39 web pages were located that contained videos, photos, text documents or profiles in which terrorism was proselytized. 75% of this content (more than 2,000 gigabytes) could finally be removed and, in this way, avoid more than 65 million views, as detailed this Thursday by Francisco Coria, head of the Anti-Terrorism Division…