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Human resources management: What about pay equity at Vodafone?Sebastian Harrer: Pay equity is not a one-off project at Vodafone, but rather an integral part of our strategic HR orientation. For many years, we have pursued the goal of ensuring fair and transparent remuneration – regardless of gender, origin or other personal characteristics. We do not view equal pay in isolation, but rather as part of a holistic HR strategy that relies on trust, fact-based decisions and responsibility.When and how did Vodafone start looking into equal pay?Anja Knauff: Vodafone has been systematically addressing the issue of fair pay since 2017. The…
– Advertisement -Today, the culture we live in everyday work is no longer just shaped by mission statements, but increasingly on the monitor. Since employees interact with software more often in their everyday digital lives than with their managers, the direct influence of HR systems on corporate culture is growing. Mark Grignon, CEO at Kognitiv, explains why intuitive processes significantly determine the perception of fairness – and how modern HR platforms become a central part of the employee experience through the targeted use of AI. Executive Summary The influence of HR systems on corporate culture in everyday working life The…
Tears, cries and boxes of clinex. The awarding of medals on the occasion of February 28, Andalusia Day, a television gala where there is more singing than talking, was marked by two strong impacts that occurred in Andalusia in just one month: the Adamuz railway accident (46 deaths, 126 people treated, of which seven are still hospitalized) and the succession of storms that have caused numerous damages and forced the town of Grazalema to be evacuated.One of the winners cried as always, the model Eva González, who led the ceremonies in previous years and got emotional every now and then;…
The Donald Trump Administration proposed this Thursday to block the accounts of the Swiss bank MBaer in the United States for its alleged involvement in money laundering operations linked to the regimes of Venezuela, Russia and Iran. Among the operations that the Financial Crimes Control Agency of the United States Government accuses of MBaer bank, a small financial institution created in 2018 and based in Zürich, two accounts are cited in the name of the Swiss investor at the origin of the investigation for the rescue of Plus Ultra, the Venezuelan capital airline that in 2021 received loans worth 53…
Waveing through a far-reaching decision without consulting employee representatives – this solo effort apparently proved to be the undoing of Deutsche Bahn’s CFO, Karin Dohm. As the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported on Thursday evening, citing supervisory board circles, the supervisory board should decide to dismiss the finance director in three weeks. The case shows that the role of the works council should not be underestimated by the C-level of a company. CFO should KBR have booted out What had happened? In December, shortly after her appointment to the board, Dohm signed a shareholder directive to split up the railway subsidiary DB…
The technicians investigating the railway accident on January 18 in Adamuz (Córdoba) have in their custody, in coordination with the Civil Guard, all the material that they consider probative and that was removed from the ground zero of the accident until January 22, when the infrastructure manager Adif entered the area of the accident in the middle of the night of the 23rd and collected segments of rails without express authorization from the court. The Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) has rail segments and welds extracted from the surroundings of kilometer point 318,681 of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line, where it…
Around ten years after protests against an oil pipeline in the USA, the environmental organization Greenpeace is to pay the operator compensation of 345 billion dollars. Greenpeace immediately announced an appeal against the court ruling.
– Advertisement -AI takes over classic entry-level tasks and creates a dangerous gap in the talent pipeline. When junior roles disappear, the most important learning phase is lost for the next generation – with consequences for companies. Johann Wachs, Managing Director at eightplaces, analyzes why starting a career in the age of AI requires a new learning and career architecture – and how HR can build the bridge between algorithms and expertise. Executive Summary Starting a career in the AI age: New tasks for HR The challenge: Artificial intelligence takes over classic entry-level tasks, while junior roles are eliminated. This…
Pay transparency means that companies have to disclose their salaries according to certain requirements. This also means that salaries, which were previously often negotiated individually, must now be based on objective criteria. If there are salary differences, companies must explain them.
The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has been convinced this Friday that the Catalan Budgets are going to move forward after not having been able to approve those for 2024 or 2025. “I do not contemplate another scenario in which the budgets are approved because it is what Catalonia needs,” the leader of the Catalan Government stated without hesitation when interviewed by Aimar Bretos on ‘Hora 25’. Although he still does not have the support of ERC, Illa has considered that they will be able to move forward with the accounts with his investiture partners. More informationThe public accounts…