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Human resources: Mr. Wippermann, in your opinion, what is the most important point for companies to successfully implement the requirements of the EU Pay Transparency Directive and the resulting law in Germany?Frank Wippermann: The implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive will probably result in an amended Pay Transparency Act in Germany. Many companies are confronted with the question of how they define work of equal value. The most important point is: Companies must develop a comprehensible methodology to evaluate jobs. A transparent remuneration system is based on this. Many people then say: “Our legal department does that.” This sentence…

The operator, wearing a mask and gloves, tears the bundle with a knife to extract the 20 brick-shaped packages of cocaine weighing one kilo that are inside. With a mechanical gesture, he immediately throws them onto a conveyor belt at his feet and where those thrown by a colleague who is busy, like him, emptying one after another the burlap sacks that are piled up on a pallet also fall. They do all this surrounded by four agents from the Reserve and Security Groups (GRS) of the Civil Guard who, armed with assault rifles, do not take their eyes off…

An event about anti-Semitism in Bayreuth was canceled due to alleged security concerns. The author Michel Friedman was supposed to speak there – and was outraged. Now festival director Katharina Wagner is rowing back, according to a media report.

Companies are under economic pressure. Restructuring is therefore not a cosmetic measure, but rather a strategic decision for future viability. This is precisely why the actual work begins not after dismantling, but before. First strategy, then savings: the vision of the future as a mandatory foundation Restructuring is not a linear sequence, but rather the conscious interlinking of conversion, dismantling and construction. Structures are being reorganized, capacities are being adjusted, and skills are being developed in a targeted manner. A roadmap for people, culture and organization synchronizes these dimensions with the corporate strategy – not reactively, but proactively. Restructuring without…

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has demanded from the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the same level of demand against cases of corruption that affect Ayuso as for those of the Government or the PSOE. “The level of demand that is applied to everyone, will be practiced internally with the news that we have just learned about Mrs. Ayuso’s partner,” he said, in reference to the news that Alberto González Amador invoiced 4.4 million euros to the company Quironsalud. Sánchez has shown the PSOE’s “backing, empathy and support” for former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero after…

Germany failed miserably in the UN Security Council election. CDU Foreign Minister Wadephul initially ruled out wanting to pay less in the future. Now it sounds different – and thus offends the coalition partner.

This Thursday, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez launched a new hoax in defense of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her partner, Alberto González Amador. The main advisor to the president of Madrid has described as “false” and “insidious” the information published by EL PAÍS that reveals that González Amador invoiced the Quirónsalud group 4.4 million euros in three years, from 2021 to 2023, the first of their courtship. Continue reading

Shortly before today’s general meeting of Volkswagen, former Renk boss Susanne Wiegand announced her resignation from the supervisory board of the Wolfsburg-based automobile group. The 54-year-old manager withdrew her candidacy yesterday evening after a meeting of the control committee, according to those involved. With her departure, Volkswagen AG will lose its only independent representative on the supervisory board to date. Wiegand has been a member of the Volkswagen Supervisory Board since July 2025 and was chairwoman of the Audit Committee. Their mandate was assigned to Porsche SE, which holds 53.3 percent of the common shares. She is also a member…

The economic crisis has not cooled down the debate about the importance of company health management, but has intensified it. In practice, a mixed picture emerges: Some companies are saving on WHM budgets, while at the same time the market for company fitness and company health services is growing significantly because more and more companies are recognizing the need for action, whether due to increasing absenteeism, demographic change or the desire to be seen as an attractive employer. This is what the participants in the BGM Round Table observed. Statutory health insurance companies report that their funding volume for occupational…

The young woman with a 41% disability who accuses rapper David Calvo Villa, The Jinchohaving raped her after a concert in Mislata (Valencia) in 2023, reported this Wednesday that the artist forced her to have sex without her consent. “He forced me to have sex. He grabbed me by the arms. He forced me to masturbate him with my mouth. I told him several times that I didn’t want to. That he should leave me alone,” said the girl, who was 17 years old at the time, before the fourth section of the Provincial Court of Valencia, which is trying…