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The trial for the alleged irregularities in the hiring of David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, in the Badajoz Provincial Council reaches one of the climaxes with the statement of Sánchez and Miguel Ángel Gallardo, president of the Provincial Council at that time. Gallardo has denied that Pedro Sánchez ever contacted him about the position that was finally awarded to his brother. At that time “I wasn’t even aware that I had siblings,” Gallardo said. Previously, in a short interrogation, David Sánchez denied that he had the capacity to hire his friend Luis Carrero when a position…
Free snacks, canteen subsidies, company parties – all of this has tax pitfalls. Which rules apply, where the exemption limits are and how HR and Payroll avoid typical mistakes. Butter pretzels for a meeting or mozzarella sticks for a meeting: If an employer gives snacks to teams or the entire workforce, the employees usually like it. At the same time, a sense of proportion is required here: When providing meals to employees free of charge or at a reduced price, all sorts of tax and social security regulations must be taken into account in Germany. This is because the legislature…
In a flash, the striking teachers camped in the Plaza de la Virgen de Valenca to demand that the Consell negotiate their demands have raised their more than 70 tents in the center of the agora and have placed them on the sides of the public space, without losing sight of the Palau de la Generalitat. The teachers’ assembly decided this Wednesday around 9:30 p.m. to clear the center of the square so as not to interfere with the celebrations of the city’s popular Corpus Christi festival, which is 700 years old. Continue reading
The USA wants to cooperate again with the global vaccination alliance Gavi. The WHO is pleased with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decision. In doing so, he is opposing a cabinet colleague who is very skeptical about vaccinations.
Tonight Jaume Subirós received the National Award for Traditional Gastronomy for his work at the helm of the Motel de Figueres, a reference restaurant for Catalan cuisine that has remained faithful to its origins with excellence since 1961. At the same annual gala of the Catalan Academy of Gastronomy and Nutrition (ACGN), Raül Balam Ruscalleda, who currently heads the kitchen at the Moments restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, won the National Gastronomy Award of Author. At a gala at the Pedralbes Palace, there have been more recognitions for Patricia Sierra, from Granja Elena, with the Head of Room Award;…
Through various forms of employee listening, HR can now learn a lot about the mood and needs of employees. But there is often a gap between knowledge and concrete further work with the information. This is the result of the study “State of HR in Germany 2026” by the German Society for Personnel Management (DGFP) and the analysis and consulting company Gallup. The study authors describe this problem as a so-called “action gap”. HR departments identify problems, seek feedback, and collect more and more data, but often fail to translate it into actual decisions or actions. How can this be…
Nastassja Kinski had asked Wim Wenders to remove her from “False Movement” as a half-naked 13-year-old. The director answered evasively – he has now instructed streaming services, TV and cinemas not to show the film anymore.
One more step. Following Vox’s participation in a European extreme-right summit in Portugal last Saturday, where deputy Rocío de Meer advocated generating an “exit effect” of even second-generation immigrants who do not conform to certain cultural guidelines, the president of the party, Santiago Abascal, supported this Monday the initiative of one of the main white supremacist activists, the Dutch Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who advocates for mass deportations of “non-European” citizens, legal or illegal, because they endanger “the native peoples of Europe” and their “ethnic continuity.” Abascal’s support for the initiative comes a day after former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán publicly…
There will be fewer chief titles at Siemens in the future. Insiders from corporate circles reported this to the Handelsblatt and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The change is to be made as part of the streamlining of the company structure, the “One Tech Company program”. In total, hundreds of positions are set to lose their chief designation. Siemens itself did not want to comment on this when we asked, so it is unclear why the company is planning this step. Axa Switzerland and DWS: Different experiences with title abolition In the past, there have been other companies that have tried to…
With Directive (EU) 2023/970, the European legislator has transferred the principle of “equal pay for equal work or work of equal value” from a textbook sentence into an operational compliance framework. For professionals who have been working with compensation and grading systems for years, this is significant news in two ways: What many experts have long considered methodologically correct is now an obligation across the Union. Many existing assessment systems will not meet the new requirements in this form: the toolbox published in March by the European Institute for Gender Equality further solidifies this view. This results in two central…