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There is no truce, for the moment, in the fire that has affected the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara since Thursday. Of the 9,000 hectares devastated, according to the latest official count, a good part is located in this natural park. The fire, fueled by the dryness of the terrain and by wind gusts of up to 40 kilometers per hour, “is far from being controlled,” explained Mercedes Gómez, Minister of Sustainable Development, after the CECOPI meeting this Saturday morning. Around 300 troops are working simultaneously to contain it. Continue reading

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Honorary judge at the labor court: “It’s important to find a way out of the conflict”

Human Resources Management: Mr. Desch, you were recently promoted to Human Resources Manager, congratulations!Mario Desch: Thank you.Do you still have time to be a volunteer judge?Yes. For me, volunteering has always been much more than just an additional task. I see it as social commitment and at the same time as personal and professional training. That’s why I’ve always consciously taken the time to do this and fortunately I’ve been approved by my employer so far.

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Fans in the air, lots of water and a colorful ‘Pride’ Barcelona 2026 parade

Not even the intense heat has prevented thousands of people from taking to the streets of Barcelona this Saturday to celebrate Pride Day. Under a sweltering sun, although fortunate enough to have shade for practically the entire route, the city experienced the main day of Pride Barcelona 2026, which culminates almost a month of demands for the rights of the LGTBI+ collective. Jordi Gandia, a Valencian and worker at a large supermarket chain, attended the march accompanied by his cousin. Like thousands of attendees, they gathered at Plaza Universitat, the starting point of the demonstration, with parades of dozens of…

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Latest news on the forest fires, live | The fire in the northern mountains of Guadalajara burns 5,400 hectares and is “far from being controlled”

The Minister of Sustainable Development of Castilla-La Mancha, Mercedes Gómez, reported this Saturday that the fire that is affecting the northern mountains of Guadalajara is “far from being controlled” and that the burned area amounts to 5,400 hectares. In addition, the evolution of the flames has forced the evacuation of another town, so there are now 12 municipalities evacuated with around 600 displaced people. The other fire of concern is that of Orés (Zaragoza), which continues to advance and has burned 15,400 hectares, according to what the Government of Aragon has reported. The flames have reached a perimeter of 60…

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The Madrid City Council acknowledges that it shot 1,191 parrots to death and captured 17,143, but environmentalists do not believe their data

In March 2024, the Madrid City Council presented the results of its campaign to reduce the population of Argentine and Kramer’s parrots in the capital. The data announced then by the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, estimated the reduction of these invasive species from 13,000 to 10,000 specimens between May 2021 and April 2023. Two years later, and after a request for access to public information made by this means, the City Council has raised the figures to 17,143 captures, although without specifying how many specimens there were at the beginning of the campaign and how…

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Can the employer automatically link salary adjustments to inflation?

In July 2021, the employer made a general promise to the workforce of a company not bound by collective agreements that their salaries would be adjusted annually to the increase in the consumer price index (CPI) and thus inflation. When the company wanted to revoke the commitment in October 2023, an employee sued because this led to a significant reduction in wages for him. During the trial, the man argued, among other things, that the revocation of the promise was ineffective. However, he was not heard by the labor court. He was also unsuccessful in the second instance. Coupling can…

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“There have been people who have slept, but very little, because we are very nervous.” The night has been hard, inside and outside the pavilion and casino of Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza), where at this time more than a thousand residents remain evicted from five towns in the Cinco Villas region, in the same province, and one from Navarra (Petilla), due to the fire that broke out in Orés last Wednesday. The flames have already devastated 14,000 hectares and the fight to contain them has caused very difficult moments in recent hours to save the municipality of Uncastillo, surrounded…

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Sick leave: Warken wants to abolish online AU without contact with a doctor

The federal government wants to change certain requirements for issuing certificates of incapacity for work (AU). The Union and the SPD recently announced the introduction of a requirement for employees to have a certificate from the first day of illness. Federal Health Minister Nina Warken has now also announced plans for new requirements for online sick leave. What are the plans for certificates from the Internet? In an interview with the Editorial Network Germany (RND), the CDU politician said that “the possibility of a certificate via video” should in principle be retained. Nobody has to “go to the doctor’s office”…

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