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In September 2022, the person appointed this Friday as deputy operational director (DAO) of the National Police, Commissioner José Luis Santafé Arnero (Madrid, 60 years old), assumed the position he has held until now, that of senior chief in the Balearic Islands. And he did so with a speech in which, before the general director Francisco Pardo, the then Government delegate in this community and today Secretary of State for Security, Aina Calvo, and the DAO at that time, also commissioner José Ángel González, remembered his humble origins: “Thank you for trusting once again in that boy from the (Madrid)…
Update from March 6, 2026: Two years after the introduction of gender-neutral parental leave at Henkel, the company is drawing a positive conclusion. Worldwide, 15 percent more employees took parental leave in 2025 than in 2024, writes HR Director Sylvie Nicol on Linkedin. The increase in employees is particularly pleasing. Last year, 35 percent more men took parental leave than in the previous year. In order to display external content, your revocable consent is required. Personal data from third-party platforms (possibly USA) may be processed. More information. Update from August 12, 2025: There was great enthusiasm in the HR scene…
What applicants have been demanding for a long time will soon become a legal requirement: more salary transparency in the application process. With the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which must be implemented into German law by June 2026, companies with 100 or more employees will in future be obliged to tell applicants the starting salary or a salary range – at the latest before the contract is signed. According to the EU, the information should be provided in such a way that “well-founded and transparent negotiations on remuneration are ensured.” However, according to the North Westphalia Chamber of Industry and…
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has reappeared this Friday in a PSOE campaign acting as a prophet in his land with a new mission that seems more impossible than that of the 2023 general elections: trying to put an end to the hegemony of the PP in Castilla y León, where it has governed uninterruptedly since 1987. “I come with my eyebrows, the firmness and the conviction to always support the PSOE. To the best party in the political history of Spain. I am proud of the party that most has done for democracy and that has modernized Spain the most…
Two peacekeepers were apparently seriously injured in a rocket attack in southern Lebanon. Trump calls for more weapons production. And: Putin expresses solidarity with Iran’s President Pezeshkian. All news and analyzes about the Iran war.
More and more young women are studying MINT subjects. At the same time, the proportion of female employees in tech roles is falling, current studies show. Why is this and how can HR counteract it? Although women have increasingly acquired academic STEM qualifications in recent years, female employees in many places in Europe appear to be losing ground when it comes to tech careers. At least that’s what a new report from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company suggests. According to this, the proportion of women in IT professions has fallen from 22 to 19 percent in the past three…
The Generalitat Firefighters are searching for the driver of a vehicle that they found flooded in the Giola stream in Llinars del Vallès (Barcelona) during the rain storm that affects Catalonia this Friday. They received the notice at 2:32 p.m. and activated 16 crew members, including members of the underwater unit of the Special Actions Group (GRAE) and a helicopter. After accessing the interior of the vehicle, flooded in the middle of the river, they have not located anyone inside and have begun the search for the possible driver.Storm Regina has dumped rain in various parts of Catalonia, in some…
The mother has to want motherhood: When investigating a gynecologist who performs abortions, the inspector thinks of the unloved Nazi son. A “police call” beyond the comfort zone of public law.
The Generalitat has bought half of the headquarters of the Bank of Spain in Barcelona, located in the central Plaza Catalunya in the Catalan capital, for 58.4 million euros. The purchase was signed this Friday in an event in which the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the governor of the Bank of Spain, José Luis Escrivá, participated. The Generalitat will keep the upper part and the BdE will rehabilitate the “lower part”, which will make possible “an in-depth reform” of the property.The Bank of Spain also wants this central property to be “more open and closer to citizens”…
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