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The Donald Trump Administration proposed this Thursday to block the accounts of the Swiss bank MBaer in the United States for its alleged involvement in money laundering operations linked to the regimes of Venezuela, Russia and Iran. Among the operations that the Financial Crimes Control Agency of the United States Government accuses of MBaer bank, a small financial institution created in 2018 and based in Zürich, two accounts are cited in the name of the Swiss investor at the origin of the investigation for the rescue of Plus Ultra, the Venezuelan capital airline that in 2021 received loans worth 53…
Waveing through a far-reaching decision without consulting employee representatives – this solo effort apparently proved to be the undoing of Deutsche Bahn’s CFO, Karin Dohm. As the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported on Thursday evening, citing supervisory board circles, the supervisory board should decide to dismiss the finance director in three weeks. The case shows that the role of the works council should not be underestimated by the C-level of a company. CFO should KBR have booted out What had happened? In December, shortly after her appointment to the board, Dohm signed a shareholder directive to split up the railway subsidiary DB…
The technicians investigating the railway accident on January 18 in Adamuz (Córdoba) have in their custody, in coordination with the Civil Guard, all the material that they consider probative and that was removed from the ground zero of the accident until January 22, when the infrastructure manager Adif entered the area of the accident in the middle of the night of the 23rd and collected segments of rails without express authorization from the court. The Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) has rail segments and welds extracted from the surroundings of kilometer point 318,681 of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line, where it…
Around ten years after protests against an oil pipeline in the USA, the environmental organization Greenpeace is to pay the operator compensation of 345 billion dollars. Greenpeace immediately announced an appeal against the court ruling.
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Pay transparency means that companies have to disclose their salaries according to certain requirements. This also means that salaries, which were previously often negotiated individually, must now be based on objective criteria. If there are salary differences, companies must explain them.
The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has been convinced this Friday that the Catalan Budgets are going to move forward after not having been able to approve those for 2024 or 2025. “I do not contemplate another scenario in which the budgets are approved because it is what Catalonia needs,” the leader of the Catalan Government stated without hesitation when interviewed by Aimar Bretos on ‘Hora 25’. Although he still does not have the support of ERC, Illa has considered that they will be able to move forward with the accounts with his investiture partners. More informationThe public accounts…
The “invisible” February 29th only occurs in leap years. It was therefore chosen as a day of action for the “Equal Care Day” initiative by the federal association of the same name, which advocates for the appreciation of invisible care work. Since there is no February 29th this year, the day of action will take place on March 1st. Care work includes everything that has to do with looking after the household, children or relatives who need to be cared for, for example. This particularly affects women: according to figures from the Federal Statistical Office, they do an average of…
The CDU is losing a comfortable lead. Economics Minister Reiche is sabotaging the construction of small solar systems. And behind the bidding war for Warner Bros. there is a Trump victory. This is the situation on Friday evening.
The Budget of the Department of Education once again breaks a new upward record and reaches 7,954 million for this year, according to the project published this Friday, which is 14% more than the last approved accounts, in 2023, when it amounted to 6,960 million. However, the Department raises the figure to 8,356 million, and explains that the difference is due to “additional funds from other administrations that are not contemplated.”In Education, a large part of the pie goes to the so-called chapter 1, that is, the teachers’ salaries. Spending on official and labor teaching personnel amounts to 4.7 billion,…