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In March 2024, the Madrid City Council presented the results of its campaign to reduce the population of Argentine and Kramer’s parrots in the capital. The data announced then by the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, estimated the reduction of these invasive species from 13,000 to 10,000 specimens between May 2021 and April 2023. Two years later, and after a request for access to public information made by this means, the City Council has raised the figures to 17,143 captures, although without specifying how many specimens there were at the beginning of the campaign and how…

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…

Is pregnancy a good topic for a pop album? The New York electronic musician Eartheater finds moments of greatest musical beauty in her strange physical conditions. And: These best new songs of the week.

“There have been people who have slept, but very little, because we are very nervous.” The night has been hard, inside and outside the pavilion and casino of Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza), where at this time more than a thousand residents remain evicted from five towns in the Cinco Villas region, in the same province, and one from Navarra (Petilla), due to the fire that broke out in Orés last Wednesday. The flames have already devastated 14,000 hectares and the fight to contain them has caused very difficult moments in recent hours to save the municipality of Uncastillo, surrounded…

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”…

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

Iran’s leadership escalates personal attacks against Donald Trump. The state news agency Fars has now spread a call to kill on social media, along with a route that supposedly shows which route the US President’s column is taking in Florida.

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…

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…

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.…