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In the future, sick employees should be able to work part-time if they are unable to work for at least four weeks. The federal government recently passed this regulation in a draft law as part of the health care reform. The possibility of part-time sick leave has been on the table for a long time. At the beginning of 2025, the Federal Government’s “Expert Council on Health and Resilience” formulated a much-discussed proposal on this matter. Sharp criticism of the regulation was voiced again and again. Most recently, this also came from Andreas Gassen, head of the National Association of…

Almost 800 Catalan educational centers are mobilizing to suspend outings and camps next year as a measure of “pressure given the situation of the public system.” In total, 783 primary and secondary schools and institutes have joined a campaign that has been disseminated among families through a communication letter and a page web in which they demand a “dignified and quality public education.” The initiative began at the end of February, with an initial implementation limited to a few dozen schools and institutes, and has spread rapidly throughout the territory. The mobilization coincides with a climate of growing unrest in…

The trial for the mask plot resumed this Thursday in the Supreme Court with the statement of Koldo García. The prosecutor has asked José Luis Ábalos’ former advisor about the payments of 10,000 euros per month in cash that he and Ábalos would have received from Aldama at least between November 2019 and September 2022, according to Anticorruption. García has denied having received these payments of 10,000 euros per month. In addition, he has also denied the gifts that the businessman mentioned this Wednesday: a car, a motorcycle and fertility treatment. García has admitted having transferred the offer to purchase…

Signature Clinic, a prominent name amongst the UK’s cosmetic surgery providers, has made three significant additions to its senior leadership team as the organisation moves forward with its plans to extend its national reach and deepen the expertise that underpins its clinical, operational and commercial activities. Mr Mabroor Bhatty has been appointed Clinical Director, Tracey McAleney has joined as Chief Operating Officer and Sarah Hill has taken up the role of Head of Sales. The three appointments reflect the seriousness with which Signature Clinic approaches its responsibilities to patients and to the wider goal of building a healthcare organisation…

The SharePoint training that produces lasting results is rooted in practical application and shaped around the roles of the people taking part. Rather than treating the platform as a technical subject to be studied, good training helps users connect SharePoint to the work they do every day, building the kind of confidence that carries through beyond the training session itself. Training that tries to cover every feature the platform offers rarely lands well. What works is a tighter focus on what is genuinely relevant to the people in the room. When users can see clearly how SharePoint applies to…

Human resources management: How did the initial question for this study come about?Prof. Dr. Dirk Sliwka: My co-author Rainer Rilke observed that when ChatGPT is supposed to assess applications, for example, it surprisingly often gives very positive evaluations and little differentiation. Since I myself am researching subjective performance assessments, the idea came up to examine this more deeply together.How exactly did you proceed?For example, we submitted the CEOs of the top 500 publicly traded companies in the US, the S&P 500, to the Large Language Model to rate their performance on a standardized scale of one to five. Companies often…

The landing of Mónica Oltra in the Compromís candidacy for the mayor of Valencia has been met with the first internal disagreements. The former vice president of the Generalitat had been invited this Wednesday afternoon to the coalition executive in the city to address her appointment, but in the end she did not attend because the municipal spokesperson, Papi Robles, informed her in the morning that issues of internal procedures were going to be discussed. Oltra, who does not hold any position, then considered that his presence there made no sense, so he declined the invitation. Continue reading

new video loaded: Why the U.A.E. is Quitting OPECThe United Arab Emirates is walking away from OPEC this May. The New York Times’ energy reporter, Rebecca Elliott, breaks down how the war with Iran provided the perfect opening for the U.A.E. to go solo.By Rebecca F. Elliott, Nour Idriss, Jon Miller, Stephanie Swart and Paul AbowdApril 29, 2026

A total of 2.45 million descendants of Spaniards have requested nationality under the Democratic Memory Law. As of March 31 of this year, more than 1.2 million files had been initiated, of which 545,000 have been approved and 306,500 registrations have been made in the Consular Civil Registry, the last process to obtain nationality. These are the data provided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, at the Consulate General of Spain in Mexico, which, with 117,226 applications (more than 45,000 already approved), is the fifth country that has received the most nationality requests, after those of Argentina.Continue…

Part-time sick leave should be possible in Germany in the future. This means that an affected employee can work part of the time during the illness and take sick leave for the rest of the period. However, this only applies to incapacity for work of at least four weeks. The federal government decided this in the draft health care reform bill. In the next step, the Bundestag must vote on the draft. The model for partial incapacity for work – also known as part-time sick leave – is Scandinavia. Based on the models there, the federal government has now developed…