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The Iran war, the massive increase in kerosene prices and the current strikes have increased cost pressure on Lufthansa. The group has therefore decided on comprehensive cost-cutting measures. Not only does he want to reduce what he offers to passengers and take some aircraft out of service – especially those that are close to the end of their technical operational capability and have comparatively high operating costs. Furthermore, the operations of the subsidiary Cityline are to be discontinued with immediate effect and the employees are to be laid off, as the Handelsblatt has learned. But that’s not all: the group…
The requirements for further training in companies are increasing rapidly because new technologies – especially artificial intelligence – are changing task profiles faster than many organizations can react to them. At the HR round table “Corporate Learning” there was broad agreement on one point: the gap between technological development and collective learning is widening. Fast and systematic learning in companies is necessary. However, there is rather cautious reluctance in this regard in the DACH region: the further training market is stagnating, while other regions, for example in Great Britain or the USA, are growing significantly more quickly. Info Information about…
The alleged corruption plot of the Koldo case spread its tentacles to the other side of the Atlantic. A report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard incorporated into the summary in which the alleged fraudulent sale of masks to various administration bodies is investigated details that businessman Víctor de Aldama used his “ability to influence” over Koldo García, former advisor to former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, to do business in the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2020, during the worst of the covid-19 pandemic. The police document includes several WhatsApp conversations between Aldama and…
A major general, a physics professor, a NASA engineer: several top researchers have recently disappeared in the USA or died under unclear circumstances. Conspiracy theorists are alarmed. Donald Trump is now promising clarification.
Air traffic sees threats growing on the radar due to the consequences of the war in the Middle East, fundamentally associated with the extra cost of fuel. “It is a situation that, if it continues over time, will be a concern for everyone,” admits Vanessa Requena, chief of staff at the Barcelona-El Prat airport. “The supply is guaranteed for now, but if the time comes when it is not, we will have to think about an adjustment to the programming,” Requena conceded this Friday, on the verge of the start of the summer season at the Barcelona airport, a traditional…
The relief bonus planned by the federal government for 2026 is intended to provide employees with financial support in view of the continued high cost of living and energy. A tax- and social security-free payment of up to 1,000 euros per employee is planned. Unlike classic state benefits, however, the payment is not made directly by the state, but rather via the employer. This construction shifts the practical implementation and thus also the legal issues significantly into the area of labor law. Relief bonus 2026: No entitlement, but bound to legal limits Even if the specific legal design is still…
Among the participants this Friday at the Global Progressive Mobilization summit are former minister Teresa Ribera and former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez ZapateroEnvironment prior to the Global Progressive Mobilization (GPM) summit of progressive leaders in Barcelona, this Friday.Luis PellicerThis Friday, Barcelona hosts the Global Progressive Mobilization summit, which will bring together more than a hundred progressive parties from around the world and more than 3,000 people to defend left-wing alternatives to conservative policies, at a time when the right and far-right dominate a good part of Europe and America. Representatives of political parties, unions, academia and civil…
Breach of official duties? According to SPIEGEL research, politician Samet Yilmaz is said to have arranged for a private contact to be checked in a secret service database. It wouldn’t be the only border crossing.
Continued wage payments for sickness-related absences cost German companies around 82 billion euros in 2024. This represents a doubling within 14 years. Some companies rely on bonus payments to encourage their employees to attend more – so-called attendance bonuses. But a study published in 2024 by scientists Jakob Alfitian, Dirk Sliwka and Timo Vogelsang shows: Such financial incentives do not work – or even worsen the problem by increasing absenteeism. More on the topic
“It’s very nice to have wolves and have others feed them,” complains Fernando Moreno, a 46-year-old rancher, when summarizing the feelings of his colleagues in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, and of himself, every time his cows and sheep suffer an attack from this animal. A problem, he says, that has worsened in the last 15 years. Moreno, like his colleagues, opposes the request that Ecologists in Action and the Fund for the Protection of the Iberian Wolf has sent to the Government of Castilla-La Mancha so that, within a maximum period of three months, it commits to implementing a…