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Sick leave: Warken wants to abolish online AU without contact with a doctor

The federal government wants to change certain requirements for issuing certificates of incapacity for work (AU). The Union and the SPD recently announced the introduction of a requirement for employees to have a certificate from the first day of illness. Federal Health Minister Nina Warken has now also announced plans for new requirements for online sick leave. What are the plans for certificates from the Internet? In an interview with the Editorial Network Germany (RND), the CDU politician said that “the possibility of a certificate via video” should in principle be retained. Nobody has to “go to the doctor’s office”…

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The PSOE asks to charge Cospedal after the judge’s order to look for “indications of criminality” in his conversations with Commissioner Villarejo

The PSOE, represented as a popular accusation in the Villarejo casehas asked the National Court to once again summon María Dolores de Cospedal, former general secretary of the PP, to testify as a defendant. The socialists take this step after investigating judge Antonio Piña last week ordered the Internal Affairs Unit (UAI) of the National Police to search “if, among the material seized” from retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, conversations with the popular leader and her ex-partner, businessman Ignacio López del Hierro, are “identified” as containing “content that may provide evidence of criminality.” Continue reading

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Latest political news, live | The UCO estimates the benefits obtained by Cerdán and his family from the plot at more than 300,000 euros

The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard estimates at more than 300,000 euros the benefits that the former PSOE organizational secretary Santos Cerdán and his family obtained, in payments or assets, from Servinabar and other related companies, one of the key companies in the investigated plot. According to the police report, the calculation includes salaries, rent and furniture for the former socialist leader’s home in Madrid, as well as vehicles. The document also points out that Servinabar, a company in which Cerdán was allegedly a partner, tried to buy an apartment valued at 985,000 euros for him and…

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Can employers automatically link salary adjustments to inflation?

In July 2021, the employer made a general promise to the workforce of a company not bound by collective agreements that their salaries would be adjusted annually to the increase in the consumer price index (CPI) and thus inflation. When the company wanted to revoke the commitment in October 2023, an employee sued because this led to a significant reduction in wages for him. During the trial, the man argued, among other things, that the revocation of the promise was ineffective. However, he was not heard by the labor court. He was also unsuccessful in the second instance. Coupling can…

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BMW: Human Resources Director Ilka Horstmeier is leaving, her successor is ready

As of September 1st, Dorothea Boxberg will head the labor and real estate department on the BMW AG board of directors and act as labor director. The company announced this yesterday. The 52-year-old von Boxberg began her career at the Boston Consulting Group after studying industrial engineering and business administration in Berlin and Paris. In 2005 she switched to the Star Alliance airline group. In 2007 she went to Lufthansa, where she held various management positions until she was promoted to CFO on the board in 2021. In 2023 she took over the management of the Belgian airline Brussels Airline.…

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The Lozoyuela fire now exceeds 700 hectares while the Civil Guard detains the alleged perpetrator

The forest fire declared this Thursday in the Madrid municipality of Lozoyuela has already burned more than 700 hectares and continues “very active”, without being “neither perimeter nor much less stabilized”, as explained this Friday by the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, on Cadena SER. After a night of uninterrupted work, the head of the Executive in the region has indicated that the southern flank continues to be the most compromised and has trusted that the deployment of ground and aerial means will allow the flames to be controlled throughout the morning, before the wind picks up again.Continue reading

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The forest fire declared this Thursday in the Madrid municipality of Lozoyuela is evolving “favorably”, although it is not yet controlled, as sources from 112 Comunidad de Madrid have confirmed to EL PAÍS. The Civil Guard has meanwhile arrested a man as allegedly responsible for the fire, which keeps around 2,000 people confined in Buitrago de Lozoya and the districts of Cinco Villas and Manjirón, in the municipality of Puentes Viejas. As explained by the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, the suspect tried to flee the area, but was able to be intercepted thanks to the warning from several…

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