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The Firefighters faced this Tuesday for the second consecutive day, in the midst of a heat wave in Catalonia, a day with three new simultaneous fires, which have forced the residents of some towns to be confined and which are added to the one that was declared in Sentmenat (Barcelona). Dozens of crews are also working in Artesa de Segre (Lleida), in new fires such as the one in Torrefeta i Florejacs (Lleida) declared this Tuesday and in the Gavarres area of Girona. The Firefighters of the Generalitat have tonight considered controlled the fire that broke out last Friday in…
At the NATO summit, European governments want to appease Donald Trump. To this end, Germany is sending almost 125 billion euros to the alliance for the current year. However, five other countries achieve the agreed target.
BusRente BW is aimed particularly at commercial employees, including numerous bus drivers. The basis is a collective agreement concluded by the social partners, which provides for a security contribution in addition to contributions. “We were one of the first sectors with small and medium-sized companies in Germany to conclude a collective agreement on pure contribution commitments,” says Silke Geiger, Head of Human Resources and Tariffs at the WBO. The company pension plan model is mandatory for member companies; an opt-out for employees is not possible. The official start of BusRente BW was on January 1, 2026, although there is a…
1:30 p.m. In an unusual way, at least five members of the García Seguridad Integral Clearance company have broken into the space that Estefanía Rodríguez has rented for more than four years in the Castellar corralones, in the heart of Seville. Without giving them time to react, they immobilized the three young people who were making the food at that moment, throwing them to the ground and hitting them violently, according to their complaint. With the only one of them who, in a fit of panic, decided to shout “police”, they have been cruel by putting their foot on his…
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…