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A nine-year-old boy died this Saturday afternoon in Valladolid after drowning in the Pisuerga River as it passed through the city. The minor disappeared in the waters of the river in an area with remains of some water mills and near the urban river beach of Las Moreras, located in a large park that is very popular, especially in these hot weeks.Continue reading
What does the title “Special Media of the Year” mean to you personally – and what does human resources management stand for in your eyes? For me, the award means recognition of the transformation we have undergone as an editorial team. Media usage has changed dramatically, and so have we! In a world that is becoming ever faster, we want to report well-founded and cool-headed for the HR world. As head of the online service, Gesine Wagner oversees the digital channels of human resources management and, as an editor, is primarily responsible for the topics of labor law, politics and…
Andrea has a phoenix tattooed on her arm and the date she escaped from her captors. She spent five years on the streets of the Marconi industrial estate, one of the epicenters of sexual slavery in Madrid. She arrived in Spain from Romania at the age of 19, deceived by who she believed was her boyfriend and he put her to work on the street, serving the whoremongers, from the first day. During those years, he survived on energy drinks and tobacco. I had to hear every day that I wasn’t even good enough to “be a whore.” Chains were…
Update from June 26, 2026: Volkswagen boss Oliver Blume is massively tightening austerity measures. According to Manager Magazin, up to 100,000 of the current 657,000 jobs will be eliminated worldwide in the next few years. This corresponds to twice the level of the previous reduction program. In the medium term, four German plants are also to be closed: the VW locations in Hanover, Zwickau and Emden as well as the Audi plant in Neckarsulm. In total, around 40,000 people are employed there. Those familiar with the paper also speak of a far-reaching reorganization of the core brand: As a result,…
Two men have been injured, one of them seriously, in a shooting that occurred this Saturday in Barcelona during an argument on a public street, an event for which a search is underway for the perpetrator of the shooting, who has fled the scene, the Mossos d’Esquadra have reported. The event took place around three-thirty in the afternoon for reasons that are now being investigated on Sant Adrià street, in the Sant Andreu district of the Catalan capital, the Catalan police have explained.Continue reading
Wehrmacht stickers in vocational schools, racist slogans in construction: the “Trainees Against the Right” want to defend themselves against such incidents. They are often alone in their companies. What good is engagement under these conditions?
Volker Steuer, Global Head of Human Resources at Deutsche Bank, presented his vision for HR work of the future at the HR Forum Banking. He explained why it is in the hands of HR professionals whether they are perceived as strategic partners within the company. “The key success factor for the banks of the future will be to combine people, leadership, learning, culture and artificial intelligence in such a way that sustainable performance emerges.” With this core thesis, Volker Steuer made it clear in his keynote speech at the HR Forum Banking: HR not only has a supporting function in…
Nobody wanted to point themselves out, beyond those who are already pointed out. At a very delicate moment for Pedro Sánchez, any false step can be interpreted by the PSOE bases as a betrayal of the socialist leader, who is trying to redirect the agenda and prepare the ground for the electoral cycle. Nobody in the federal committee of the PSOE, except Emiliano García-Page and the mayor of Palencia, has wanted to risk being portrayed on the side of the right that calls for elections, a question of confidence or the resignation of the President of the Government. The spectacular…
The president of the Generalitat of Catalonia and secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, has firmly closed ranks with Pedro Sánchez in the federal committee of the PSOE that is being held in Madrid. “We socialists are neither bent nor silenced. And we still have a lot to do,” he stated. “I am in favor of moving forward, I have hope in the future and we have acted forcefully,” he stressed. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has spoken out about the corruption that affects the party in his speech. “We ask justice to be fair,” he stated about…
To make the rescue work more efficient, Venezuela’s government has placed the state of La Guaira under military control and closed access roads. The interim president was booed in an earthquake zone.