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More than eight weeks have passed after the start of the extraordinary regularization of immigrants and the calendar progresses towards June 30, when the deadline for submitting applications ends. The procedure continues normally, they say in the Government, and positive resolutions are already being granted throughout Spain, but there is something that worries foreigners who already have their work and residence permit: the difficulties in getting an appointment at police stations to obtain the Foreigner Identity Card (TIE), the last step in the process. Immigrants from some communities are encountering this obstacle and it is reflected in their desire to…
Workforce management, AI competence, pay transparency and regulation – the HR Forum Banking 2026 showed which questions concern the industry. And what answers there are. AI transformation, growing regulatory pressure, demographic change and geopolitical uncertainty: the questions that HR managers in banks have to deal with today are not small. At the HR Forum Banking 2026, around 100 HR professionals came together to find answers. For the second time, the human resources industry invited HR professionals from banks and financial services to the FAZ Tower in Frankfurt am Main to discuss the latest developments and challenges. What became clear: The…
A 50-year-old man killed his daughter, about 20, and then took his own life in the Sevillian town of Gerena. It was the wife and mother, respectively, of both, who found the lifeless bodies, around 2:30 p.m. this Friday, and notified the Emergency services. The Civil Guard has ruled out that it is a case of sexist violence or vicarious violence after taking the woman’s statement, official sources report. None of the three family members were in the VioGen system nor were there any complaints between the couple. Continue reading
For many, Midsummer is simply a celebration, but for right-wing extremists it is core ideological business. Extremism researcher Andreas Speit explains how ethnic groups use such celebrations to recruit – and how you can recognize them.
A minor has drowned and two others have been critically injured this Friday afternoon when they were unable to get out of the water in a rocky area on the Arrabassada beach in Tarragona, according to sources from the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) informing Europa Press. Continue reading
The golden wedding anniversary of King Carl XVI could be more Swedish. Gustaf and Queen Silvia barely lie down. Just in time for Midsummer, the couple will have been married for 50 years. Despite some low points in her marriage, Silvia finds loving words.
Anyone who has become a father or mother often takes parental leave. So that employees can look after their offspring without worrying about their professional future, they are entitled to special protection against dismissal after submitting an application in accordance with Section 18 Paragraph 1 of the Federal Parental Allowance and Parental Leave Act (BEEG). The Federal Labor Court (BAG) decided on Thursday that this protection does not only apply once, but “before every period” when parental leave is divided. Info BAG, judgment of June 18, 2026, Ref. 2 AZR 213/25 LAG Hamm, judgment of November 5, 2025, Ref. 11…
The PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, has insisted that the party maintains “trust” in the former president of the Government José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and asks that the presumption of innocence be respected while the investigation into the case progresses. Plus Ultra case. “There are politicians who are turning this into a lynching in which President Zapatero has already been condemned even before he was going to make his first statement before the judge,” he denounced in an interview on TVE. For his part, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun (Comuns Sumar), assured this Thursday that the former president should have…
Human resources: Mr. Wippermann, in your opinion, what is the most important point for companies to successfully implement the requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive and the resulting law in Germany?Frank Wippermann: The implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive will probably result in an amended Pay Transparency Act in Germany. Many companies are confronted with the question of how they define work of equal value. The most important point is: Companies must develop a comprehensible methodology to evaluate jobs. A transparent remuneration system is based on this. Many people then say: “Our legal department does that.” This sentence…
The operator, wearing a mask and gloves, tears the bundle with a knife to extract the 20 brick-shaped packages of cocaine weighing one kilo that are inside. With a mechanical gesture, he immediately throws them onto a conveyor belt at his feet and where those thrown by a colleague who is busy, like him, emptying one after another the burlap sacks that are piled up on a pallet also fall. They do all this surrounded by four agents from the Reserve and Security Groups (GRS) of the Civil Guard who, armed with assault rifles, do not take their eyes off…