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Family Minister Karin Prien (CDU) is apparently planning a far-reaching reform of parental allowance. According to a media report by the magazine “Politico”, a bill from your ministry proposes to reduce the maximum benefit period from 14 to twelve months. The Federal Ministry for Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) confirmed to our editorial team that the magazine’s information was based on the draft bill, but that the draft is currently still being coordinated by departments. The aim is to create more incentives for “partnership sharing of parental leave”. A reform of parental allowance would also directly affect…
Even if the main operation of a company is abroad, a German location can be eligible for a works council. With its decision of May 13, 2026, the Federal Labor Court (BAG) specified the requirements for this and strengthened the co-determination rights of employees in internationally active companies. Lena Grebe, lawyer in the labor law department, and Benedict Hinz, research assistant in the labor law department, analyze the decision and its consequences for company practice. Executive Summary Works council at a foreign main company: BAG strengthens co-determination at German locations The challenge: Many internationally active companies control personnel decisions centrally…
Huge mountains of debt are burdening Germany’s municipalities. Do local politicians now have to tackle taxes and parking fees? Here, the treasurer from Recklinghausen says where she sees leverage – and why the federal government’s special funds are of little use.
The City Council of Carboneras (Almería) has approved in an extraordinary plenary session the cancellation of the building license that it granted in 2003 for the construction of the Algarrobico hotel, in the heart of the Cabo de Gata Natural Park. The council thus complies with the resolution issued a week ago by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) in which it gave the corporation 20 days to rescind that authorization, after on June 17 it decided to postpone the plenary session in which it had to adopt this decision thanks to the votes of the PSOE councilors.…
“We want to show that company pension schemes are a strategic building block for loyalty and employer attractiveness, especially in personnel-intensive industries,” says Dominik Roth, Group Human Resources Manager at AWO Lower Franconia. The company pension scheme model was developed together with the service union ver.di. It is integrated into Metzler Pension Management as part of a social partner model (SPM). SIGNAL IDUNA is responsible for inventory management. Everything on topic COMP&BEN This article first appeared in the compensation magazine Comp & Ben – in the special edition for the German bAV Prize. The online magazine reports on current topics…
The management of citizen data has ceased to be a matter of simple administrative organization and has become a security problem. As computing has advanced, the infrastructure that supports all of an Administration’s information has remained in the hands of private companies, the vast majority of which are of American origin. Seeking to regain control and autonomy over this strategic information, the Generalitat took the first step this Tuesday to provide itself with what will be the first cloud independent public of Spain. It is a digital infrastructure designed to store and process data from Catalonia under exclusively European jurisdiction…
The US President’s long arm apparently reaches all the way to the meat counter in the supermarket. At his request, Walmart lowered prices, Donald Trump announced. Minced meat costs almost 15 percent less. Walmart gives a different number.
Start of a highly complex week in Catalonia with a heat wave that shoots up temperatures and turns the dense and dry forest mass into a tinderbox. The result: a succession of forest fires that have put in check the response capacity of the Generalitat Firefighters. The Generalitat has asked to confine seven urbanizations and scattered nuclei due to the evolution of the Sentmenat forest fire (Barcelona), which is advancing uncontrollably, launching secondary outbreaks and which has already affected some sixty hectares and has forced the confinement of 7,000 people. Firefighters of the Generalitat have activated a unified command center…
In the future, fixed-term employment contracts will no longer have to be printed out and signed by hand. Instead, the text form instead of the written form should also apply to them from January 1, 2027. The federal government would like to introduce this regulation as part of its latest labor market reform plans. For employers, this means: From 2027, fixed-term employment contracts can also be processed completely digitally. It is currently unclear whether this actually applies to all areas. Until now, the written form – i.e. the necessary printing out and hand-signing of employment contracts – was mandatory, in…
PwC Germany: Petra Raspels becomes the new Chief People Officer Petra Raspels has been Chief People Officer (CPO) and member of the management team at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) Germany since July. She shared this on Linkedin. She succeeds Daniela Geretshuber, who has held this position since 2022. Raspels has worked at PwC since 1997. From 2008 to 2023, she was responsible for human resources as Head of People & Organization and was also active in various management positions, including in the areas of tax and legal, workforce at Germany and EMEA level, as well as consulting enablement and transformation. In…