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White smoke, finally. After 16 days and eight meetings, unions and the Department of Education have reached a preliminary agreement on salaries and global improvements in classroom conditions, which will allow teachers to earn 400 euros more per month within four years and more than 6,000 new staff of teachers and educational staff in this period. This puts an end to one of the conflicts that the Government of Salvador Illa has been facing for three months and puts an end to strikes that have filled the streets and emptied the classrooms, but which have also worn down the Government…
Israel and the US secret services are said to have helped: The Emiratis attacked Iran in the spring much harder than previously known. And the current negotiations? The Ayatollahs are now accusing Donald Trump of fake news.
In the past few weeks there have been interesting chair changes in the world of HR consultants and service providers. Here we present the most important ones. Sebastian Dettmers (Foto: Stepstone) The Stepstone Group has appointed Christian Schmalzl as its new Chief Executive Officer. Schmalzl will take up his position on September 1, 2026 and succeeds Sebastian Dettmers, who is leaving the company after 15 years. Dettmers has been CEO since January 2020 and previously served as Managing Director for Germany from 2011; Under his leadership, Stepstone developed from a European job exchange into an HR technology group with activities…
The Generalitat Budgets for 2026 amount to 33,305 million euros, which represents a growth of 3.1% and 1,014 million euros more than the current regional accounts. It is “the largest and most important in the history” of the Valencian Community with 80% destined to reinforce public services and the commitment to public education, as highlighted this Friday by the president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca. Previously, the full Council had approved the bill, which has already been delivered to Les Corts Valencianes for the start of its parliamentary processing.Continue reading
Black and red got stuck in the dispute over the eight-hour day, now economists are making a proposal: the maximum working hours could initially only be extended for certain professions. However, there is a warning from the unions.
A good three and a half years after the launch of ChatGPT and the associated broad breakthrough of generative AI, there is a new, measurable usage gap between the sexes, the gender AI gap. This is the result of a study by the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research (IAB) and the D21 initiative. It also shows where the adjustment screws for HR lie in order to close the gap. Gender AI Gap: What the IAB study shows about AI use in the workplace
Junts spokesperson in Congress, Mírian Nogueras, has assured that her party is not there to “put in and take out” Spanish governments and has insisted that Sánchez must bring forward the elections. “We do not have the election button nor do we have the motion button, because with seven deputies we cannot make a motion,” he added. The accumulation of corruption scandals that surround the PSOE and the Government maintains political tension this Friday. After the indictment of the manager of the Socialists and former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and after the UCO spent 12 hours on Wednesday searching…
The new Workation Atlas shows: Nowhere is the keyword googled as frequently as in Germany. For HR, there are a number of things to consider when dealing with workation requests from employees relating to taxes, law, data protection and social security. More than half – 52 percent – of all global Google searches for the term “workation” come from Germany – that’s nine times as many as from second-place Poland. This is perhaps the most surprising result of the Workation Atlas 2026, which the Berlin data studio DataPulse Research recently published. In 2025, an average of 15,076 Google searches for…
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, asked this Thursday to appear in Congress to talk about the PSOE scandals. The president wants to take advantage of the appearance he has to make after the next European Council that will be held on June 18 and 19 to also talk about the judicial scandals that affect his party. It will be Congress who decides the final date. ERC, Podemos, BNG and Compromís have also requested the appearance of the president to give “explanations on the new information regarding judicial investigations that affect the majority party in the Government.” In the…
US Ebola patients are to be treated in a specially built quarantine center in Kenya. A local human rights organization sees “serious constitutional concerns” and is taking legal action against it.