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Data scandal at VW: employee absences illegally shared

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…

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April Fair: Morante, god of bullfighting | Culture

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…

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The psychiatrist accused of the death of an acute patient: “I had no suicidal intentions” | Society

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…

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Ulrich Braig becomes the new CHRO at Stihl – Human Resources

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…

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Interior detects 39 pages on the Internet every day with content proselytizing jihadist violence | Spain

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…

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Companies under pressure: How to achieve performance without exhaustion

Layoffs, job cuts, restructuring – these terms have become an integral part of our everyday work in recent years. According to an economic survey by the German Economic Institute, 36 percent of German companies plan to cut jobs in 2026. The associated uncertainties paralyze many employees, while the pressure to succeed continues to increase in times of economic crisis. A lot of pressure, but it doesn’t necessarily have to result in exhaustion. There is often more room for maneuver between the pressure that comes from outside and the pressure that we create ourselves than we initially assume. This article shows…

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The regularization of migrants intensifies the political battle between the Government and the opposition | Spain

The extraordinary regularization of migrants in Spain is revealed to be one of the most comfortable political battles for the PSOE, despite the electoral profitability that anti-immigration measures have reported in numerous countries in recent times. The coalition government is defending this issue as a milestone in the legislature, aware that bringing half a million people out of painful hiding, granting them rights and placing them in decent working and social conditions are elements that left-wing voters value for themselves. In addition, the Executive has shown numbers favorable to the economy, such as the increase in contributions that these people…

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