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Zoom in to see prices in each county Note: Data is of 3 a.m. Eastern time and is the average price of regular unleaded gasoline. Source: AAA. The cost of fuel in the United States is on the rise, with the price of gasoline steadily ticking up since the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran began in February. As oil supplies remain disrupted in the Middle East, Americans have seen gas stations across the country change their signs every day for more than a month.But the price increases have not been spread evenly. In California, where drivers typically pay the most for…
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Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has followed his custom and has dedicated another Wednesday of Holy Week to listening to the defenses and accusations of the Begoña Gómez case. The procedure was not new either. A mere formality to inform them that, if it goes to trial, it will be before a popular jury. The parts have not gone off script either. Those investigated – the wife of the President of the Government, his advisor Cristina Álvarez and the businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés – have not attended in person, leaving their defense in the hands of their lawyers, who have demanded…
The US President accuses the NATO states of holding back in the Iran war. Now the tone is getting harsher: Trump is threatening to withdraw the United States from the defense alliance. He referred to these as “paper tigers”.
“The company pension scheme is a mandatory part of an appreciative benefits strategy.” Helge Kniepen, Head of HR Competence & Payroll at Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli and speaker at the Total Rewards practice forum, is convinced of this. A company pension scheme (bAV) should not be missing from a good benefits strategy. This component of the benefit portfolio is also very important to the chocolate factories Lindt & Sprüngli. The company also ensures that young talents also have their retirement planning in mind. Helge Kniepen will reveal how this works at the Total Rewards practice forum on May 5th in…
Shared Service Centers (SSC) have been considered the standard model for increasing efficiency in HR organizations for years. The underlying logic is simple: transactional tasks are bundled, standardized and relocated to lower-cost regions. Typical business cases calculate savings of 20 to 40 percent. In practice, however, a much more differentiated picture emerges – especially when hidden costs and structural effects are taken into account. Cost assumptions often fall short
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, defended this Wednesday the extraordinary regularization of immigrants promoted by the Government. In an interview with RNE, Saiz regretted that the Popular Party now criticizes the measure despite the fact that in the past it supported similar initiatives, even from La Moncloa, and has disfigured the proposal supported by Vox and PP that links immigration with terrorism. According to the Government spokesperson, the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo is “subject” to agreements made by the extreme right.During the defense of the presentation promoted by the PP, debated at noon…
The two underground galleries that linked Morocco and Ceuta to traffic drugs and that have been located by security forces in just over a year were designed by an alleged trafficker whom the Police have nicknamed the “narcoarchitect” or the “patron of the tunnels.” This is Mustafá Chairi B., a Moroccan businessman with a background and resident in the town of Fnideq (formerly Castillejos), neighboring Ceuta. Owner of several businesses, Mustafá Chairi B. was arrested on March 26 in the autonomous city in Operation Ares, which has allowed the dismantling of “the hashish network of networks” that he allegedly controlled,…
Shared Service Centers (SSC) were considered a classic entry point into HR. But our columnist Heike Gorges explains whether this is still worth it in times of automation and AI. For a long time, HR operations – often organized in shared service centers – was considered a classic entry into the HR world. Here you get to know employment contracts, personnel processes, HR systems and the organizational processes of a company. But with increasing automation, self-service portals and AI, this field of work is changing. Many young HR professionals are therefore asking themselves: Is HR Operations still a sensible starting…
The City Council of Lloret de Mar (Girona) has agreed to unblock the coastal path that passes through the estate of former Kazakh president Nursultán Nazarbayev, now pending the approval of the municipal plenary session.According to the council, the agreement, after years of litigation due to the property’s opposition to allowing access to a public route, will redefine the path.The work will be carried out by the property through the company Flinder Data, which will undertake both the drafting of the planning and the execution.The new route, according to the City Council, is designed to recover “the essence of the…