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In a matter of a couple of hours, the Government of Spain has picked up the gauntlet thrown by Madrid. At around ten o’clock at night and in a decision with only one precedent, the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has requested via tweet the declaration of the operational situation three of the Civil Protection Plan against forest fires in Madrid (Infoma), that is, that La Moncloa take control of the situation and assume command of the emergency given the impossibility of the region to deal with the extinction of the three fires that devastate the territory at the same…
The current debate – for example at Siemens – about the dismantling of hierarchies and titles shows that the real change is taking place in the corporate culture. Harald Smolak, Head of People Management at Atreus, explains why leadership, HR and change management are crucial – and what eight measures companies should take to successfully reduce hierarchies. Executive Summary Dismantling hierarchies: Why corporate culture determines success The challenge: The dismantling of hierarchies and titles not only changes organizational structures, but also has a deep impact on corporate culture. Without clear orientation, transparent decision-making processes and a new understanding of leadership,…
Summertime is vacation time. Some employees receive a bonus from their employer in addition to their actual salary for their time off. It is not uncommon for job advertisements to offer holiday or Christmas bonuses. If this bonus has been paid for years and the employer suddenly wants to suspend payment, disputes often arise. Employers can keep the door to special payments open through voluntary and revocable retention. A new ruling by the Federal Labor Court (BAG, ruling of February 21, 2024, file number 10 AZR 345/22) shows that these are not always watertight clauses. “The fact that an employer…
The fire declared this Thursday in Ávila is advancing uncontrollably and has forced the municipalities of Burgohondo, El Tiemblo and Navaluenga to be confined. The rest of the fires in Castilla y León are evolving favorably. The work of the extinction operation has allowed the severity of the Rábano de Aliste (Zamora) and Retortillo (Soria) fires to be reduced, now without confinements or evacuations. The one in Castropodame (León) is evolving positively, but the towns of Turienzo Castañero and San Pedro Castañero continue to be evacuated. In Madrid, the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has warned that the…
The Government and the leadership of the PSOE reiterate their support for José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero after the explanations that the former president has given on RTVE, where he has defended his innocence without providing any new information to what he had already declared in mid-June before Judge José Luis Calama of the National Court. Moncloa does not change the position it has maintained since the beginning of the case and asks for “respect” for Zapatero’s presumption of innocence and “his right to defend himself in the open procedure.”Continue reading
Health insurance companies, chambers of crafts and guilds, BGM service providers and universities – they are all looking for cooperation with companies in order to further develop their company health management (BGM). If it is important to you as an organization that the WHM course you are taking is also scientifically based, you will enter into cooperation with researchers. But when does that really make sense?Heike Kraußlach is the contact person for the “Healthy Work in Thuringia” network at the Ernst Abbe University (EAH) Jena. She is of the opinion: In many companies, WHM currently consists of individual measures and…
In teams, three channels are still unread, after the lunch break a missed call is waiting on the work cell phone and after work a colleague calls via WhatsApp: Constant digital stress at work is a real phenomenon. This is shown by the representative IU study “Always-on: Digital Stress in Germany”, for which around 2,000 people aged 16 to 65 were surveyed in January 2026. Digital stress is perceived by those surveyed as a constant state: four out of ten say they have the feeling that they are constantly “on reception” mentally. More than half of IU respondents experience pressure…
The head of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), Yasmin Fahimi, is calling for heat loss benefits in Germany. “In extreme cases, there will be a loss of work due to weather in the future,” Fahimi told the German Press Agency. “Therefore, the legislature is called upon to find regulations that ensure solidarity for future loss benefits for employees and employers.” Fahimi’s demand is not without reason: a hot day costs the German economy 431 million euros. This emerges from an analysis by the research and consulting company Prognos on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social…
Gaza, Ukraine, Trump: Andy Burnham has not yet attracted attention with his foreign policy expertise. Now the new British Prime Minister apparently wants to leave a lot of things to an experienced minister – Ed Miliband. But that is unlikely to work.
The moment that the PSOE has been waiting for for more than two months has arrived. Tomorrow José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero breaks the silence he has maintained since he was charged on May 19 with leading “an organized and stable structure aimed at the illicit exercise of influence” whose greatest success would have been the 53 million euro rescue of the Plus Ultra airline in the pandemic. Sixty-five days later, the former president will be interviewed on RTVE for the first time since the opening of the investigation, for which he did appear before the judge on June 17. Different…