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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…
The US President’s long arm apparently reaches all the way to the meat counter in the supermarket. At his request, Walmart lowered prices, Donald Trump announced. Minced meat costs almost 15 percent less. Walmart gives a different number.
Start of a highly complex week in Catalonia with a heat wave that shoots up temperatures and turns the dense and dry forest mass into a tinderbox. The result: a succession of forest fires that have put in check the response capacity of the Generalitat Firefighters. The Generalitat has asked to confine seven urbanizations and scattered nuclei due to the evolution of the Sentmenat forest fire (Barcelona), which is advancing uncontrollably, launching secondary outbreaks and which has already affected some sixty hectares and has forced the confinement of 7,000 people. Firefighters of the Generalitat have activated a unified command center…
In the future, fixed-term employment contracts will no longer have to be printed out and signed by hand. Instead, the text form instead of the written form should also apply to them from January 1, 2027. The federal government would like to introduce this regulation as part of its latest labor market reform plans. For employers, this means: From 2027, fixed-term employment contracts can also be processed completely digitally. It is currently unclear whether this actually applies to all areas. Until now, the written form – i.e. the necessary printing out and hand-signing of employment contracts – was mandatory, in…
PwC Germany: Petra Raspels becomes the new Chief People Officer Petra Raspels has been Chief People Officer (CPO) and member of the management team at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) Germany since July. She shared this on Linkedin. She succeeds Daniela Geretshuber, who has held this position since 2022. Raspels has worked at PwC since 1997. From 2008 to 2023, she was responsible for human resources as Head of People & Organization and was also active in various management positions, including in the areas of tax and legal, workforce at Germany and EMEA level, as well as consulting enablement and transformation. In…
The move is part of US President Donald Trump’s proposed post-war plan for the Gaza Strip: Hamas announces that it will hand over administration of the territory to a body of Palestinian technocrats. However, it imposes conditions.
The Provincial Court of Malaga has ordered the reopening of the investigation into the death of Moroccan Haitam Mejri, 35, during a police action that occurred last December in Torremolinos (Malaga, 71,329 inhabitants) that included the use of taser guns. The three magistrates of the first section have asked the judge handling the case, who decided to archive it last April, to take it back to carry out further proceedings. They require a “deep and effective” investigation to “clarify the reported facts” regarding what happened during the man’s detention. The images from two cameras from the establishment itself and another…