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The tangle of Ábalos’s plugs unsettles the court: “But where do you work?” | Spain

An Excel table was the problem. Ignacio Zaldívar, an Adif worker, made it for his own consumption. He never thought he would go beyond the walls of his office to reach the Supreme Court. In it he wrote “presidency” next to the name of Jésica Rodríguez as a red flag to remind him that this girl was a “special” case. The work footprint of the young woman, the ex-partner of José Luis Ábalos whom the former Minister of Transportation placed – thanks to the efforts of his faithful collaborator, Koldo García – in up to two public companies, has been…

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Foreign posting: Does the new military service law affect this?

An approval requirement in the new military service law has caused confusion in recent days. According to the law, which came into force on January 1, 2026, men between the ages of 17 and 45 must obtain permission from the Bundeswehr if they want to leave Germany for longer than three months. The Frankfurter Rundschau first reported on it. The regulation is particularly interesting for employers with regard to foreign assignments. These should not actually take place if they are scheduled for a period of more than three months and the employee has not received appropriate approval from the Bundeswehr.…

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Trial against Ábalos, Koldo and Aldama, live | A former senior Adif official assures that Ábalos called Pardo de Vera because at Ineco they were bothering Jéssica Rodríguez | Spain

A Transportation technician offloads the purchase of masks to the undersecretary: “The orders were given to me” By Rocío Martínez Posada. Angélica Martínez Ortega, Technical General Secretary of the Ministry of Transport during the coronavirus pandemic who was in charge of drafting the two ministerial orders that authorized the purchase of medical supplies from Puertos del Estado and Adif for a total of 13 million units, has stated that she limited herself to guaranteeing regulatory compliance, ensuring that the decisions about who should contract, with whom and in what quantity corresponded to Undersecretary Jesús Manuel Gómez García. “The orders were…

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“A trap” – Why expert Rusinek warns against replacing junior jobs with AI

Human resources management: Dr. Rusinek, you warn companies against pushing automation at the expense of entry-level jobs. Why? Dr. Hans Rusinek: In the short term, automation seems to have high savings potential, but in the long term it is a danger. If I save on entry-level positions and don’t hire anyone or only a few young people, I’ll fall into a trap: This will break the bottom rung of the career ladder. In this way, companies destroy their own talent pipeline. Employers lose significantly more than they gain, for example the necessary breath of fresh air that young professionals bring…

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The ‘Spiderman’ of Princesa Street: a man forgets his keys and enters his apartment in Madrid by climbing the facade | Madrid News

He left the keys at home, but had left the balcony door open. A resident of Calle Princesa in Madrid had an idea, the possible consequences of which seemed less serious to him than paying the locksmith’s bill: to climb the façade of the building until he reached his apartment on the second floor. And so he did. The neighbors and passers-by who saw him clinging to the wall several meters high could not believe that the Madrid ‘Spiderman’ was in jeans, with a dark blue t-shirt and without shoes.The real luck was that his neighbor was home and let…

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This is how companies will sharpen their total rewards strategies in 2026

Comp & Ben management is currently confronted with high demands: transformation, restructuring and staff reductions are on the agenda in many companies. The measures should be designed to be as socially acceptable as possible, but economically sensible and future-oriented. At the same time, this year’s salary increases will be lower in many areas than in 2025, and employers will have to redistribute existing budgets and use them more specifically. The compensation experts described these developments at the human resources round table. Another trend is also emerging: remuneration should once again be based more on individual performance – be it in…

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Video: Unraveling the Mystery Behind Bitcoin’s Creator

new video loaded: Unraveling the Mystery Behind Bitcoin’s CreatorOur investigative reporter John Carreyrou spent 18 months digging through the archives of online cryptography communities in search of the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous inventor of bitcoin.By John Carreyrou, Sutton Raphael, James Surdam, Coleman Lowndes and Joey SendaydiegoApril 8, 2026

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Doctor, I have broken up with my partner | News from Catalonia

I have lived for years with someone who was deeply depressed. That dark privilege that forces you to see up close how an illness devours the one you love, forever inoculates you against the trivialization of mental suffering. For that reason alone I dare to write what follows.We need more psychology professionals, more research, more resources. Mental health is the great silent crisis of our time. And, precisely because it is, we must have the courage, threading as finely as necessary, to confront the excessive medicalization that leads to the pathologization of life itself.The psychiatrist Guillermo Lahera, head of psychiatry…

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