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Just two days ago, the French video game giant Ubisoft congratulated itself on the successful launch of its video game Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. He remake of the popular 2013 game had managed to sell more than two million copies in just 24 hours. And beyond the market response, users were rewarding it with high scores and good comments, which especially highlighted the underwater levels of the title. These screens, precisely, had been created from the company’s Barcelona office, which networked with colleagues in Singapore and Canada. However, in the Catalan capital there is little to celebrate. After two…
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has been under Russian control since spring 2022. Shelling continues to cause danger in Zaporizhzhia. Now, according to Russian information, there was a drone attack on an official vehicle.
At the company party, Tobias finds out that his colleague earns 17,000 euros more. Claudia does the same work as her male colleagues, but has a different title. Using tricky practical scenarios, we show when employees really have a right to information – and how HR can react in a legally compliant manner. Part 2 of 4. The topic of pay transparency is of concern to HR professionals – even if the federal government has not yet presented a new pay transparency law (EntgTranspG) to implement the EU directive. The existing law already provides for rights to information and the…
The Generalitat Firefighters have managed to stabilize the fire in Sant Quirze Safaja, in Barcelona, which has led to the preventive confinement of several houses and a rural hostel and the evacuation of a campsite and a campsite. The Government of Aragon has ordered the evacuation of the residents of Orés (72 inhabitants), Asín (88 inhabitants) and Luesia (332), in Zaragoza, through an Es-Alert message, due to a forest fire that has already burned at least 140 hectares and that had forced the intervention of the Military Emergency Unit (UME). The forest area burned in Spain now amounts to 62,215…
For years, France debated whether terminally ill people should be allowed to take lethal drugs. The National Assembly in Paris has now passed a corresponding law – but with numerous restrictions.
There is no truce in Aragon this summer. In the last 20 days, seven fires have been declared in the autonomous territory. The last one, on the morning of this Wednesday, in the town of Orés, in the Zaragoza region of Cinco Villas, which at this time is advancing uncontrollably and has already caused the eviction of around 400 people in total from three municipalities in the area (Orés, Asín and Luesia). In addition, two nursing homes have been evacuated, and they have been moved to another center in the Aragonese capital. The Government of Aragon – which met this…
The Munich labor court recently had to decide whether an employee of the local transport company could refuse to use the train because the vehicle carried outdoor advertising for the troops. As a recognized conscientious objector and pacifist, he could not drive the vehicle – and that had to be taken into account in the roster. His employer didn’t find this funny, filed a counterclaim and won. Why did the lawsuit before the Munich Labor Court fail? Since the man had only been assigned to drive the tram in question “in about one and three quarters of a year so…
This is probably the situation every HR manager wants to avoid during a restructuring: being booed at by employees at a works meeting. Lea Corzilius, HR director at the automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen, apparently didn’t succeed. What had happened? The ZF management had terminated the internally so-called “Zeppelin bonus” as an above-tariff bonus at the headquarters in Friedrichshafen in mid-2027. The remuneration component was a fixed performance bonus, which is now not to be completely abolished, but rather converted into a performance bonus. Cozilius wanted to inform employees about details at the works meeting on Tuesday. After she was booed…
On the eve of the closure of tourist flats announced by Mayor Jaume Collboni in Barcelona for 2028, the Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Barcelona (FAVB) has analyzed the data of the 10,730 licenses for legal tourist housing and has drawn two conclusions. The first, the exact map of where they are located, by districts and neighborhoods. The Eixample (with five neighborhoods) has the most homes for tourist use (4,911, 46%), and is also home to the property with the most concentration, with 92 in a single building on Tarragona street. The map also draws attention to the number of…
A planned luxury resort by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner in a nature reserve is driving Albanians onto the streets. The musician Dua Lipa, whose parents come from Kosovo and Albania, has now revealed what she thinks of the project.