Office: “Dress codes should be relaxed in hot weather”
30 degrees in the office, street work in the midday heat: What rights do employees have in the heat? The occupational physician Anette Wahl-Wachendorf clarifies. How do employees get through the summer in high temperatures? Anette Wahl-Wachendorf is a doctor specializing in occupational medicine in Berlin and Frankfurt. It gives tips on what employees should […]
What impact are we facing now?
Stopping the grain deal That means Putin’s decision for the world Updated on 07/18/2023 – 10:51 amReading time: 7 min. Russian President Vladimir Putin (archive photo): The agreement secured millions of people access to grain products. (Source: dpa) Vladimir Putin is not giving up: even before the grain agreement came to an end, he announced […]
The more you watch, the more you pay?Copyrighted authors sue OpenAI VentureBeat The Machine
ChatGPT’s data collection is facing increased scrutiny from social media giants and artists alike. (Bloomberg) [Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report]Recently, OpenAI has been caught in a copyright war due to ChatGPT. At the end of June, two award-winning authors, Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay, sued OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence of violating copyright law by using their […]
Pension reform – with shares?
Good morning, dear reader, how would you like to celebrate your 80th birthday? Ideally, I imagine it like this: I sit comfortably with loved ones, toast to good years with a Crémant – or whatever you drink in 2066 – and gratefully look back on one or the other life’s work. Ob Walter Riester does […]
A dangerous mix for us
Prices continue to rise rapidly. That is why the unions are now demanding significant wage increases. But that creates new problems. The railway workers’ union (EVG) is demanding 12 percent more wages. That’s why the railway employees will paralyze all S-Bahn and long-distance traffic tomorrow, Monday. But is this the right way out of the […]
Labor Day | Faeser appeals to demonstrators
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser calls on demonstrators to protest peacefully on May 1st. Social justice should be the priority. With a view to May 1st, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has called for peaceful forms of protest. “May 1st stands for social justice and social cohesion,” said the SPD politician on Sunday […]
Hubertus Heil speaks of a “slap in the face”
The CDU proposes raising the retirement age. Criticism of this hails from the SPD: Minister Heil says the plan means a pension cut. The SPD and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) have sharply criticized a pension concept from the CDU. The plan was “a slap in the face of many hard-working people in Germany,” […]
The situation in Germany is getting darker
Good morning, dear reader, we experience a typical German phenomenon: In times of crisis, many fellow citizens do not first think about what they can do to solve the problem themselves, but call for help from the state. Lord, let it rain manna! Whether green, red, black or colorless, everyone keeps their hands open. Minister […]
Germany lacks hundreds of thousands of workers – news
Share Tweet Share Share E-mail More than 630,000 vacancies for skilled workers could not be filled last year because there were no suitably qualified unemployed people nationwide, according to the Competence Center for Skilled Workers Insurance (Kofa) of the German Economic Institute (IW). This is the largest gap in the supply of qualified labor since […]
Immigration: Germany opens the gates
Good morning, dear reader, Hospitals and kindergartens, engineering offices and factories, rail transport and schools: there is a shortage of skilled workers everywhere in Germany – and the problem is getting bigger and bigger. In just 15 years there will be more pensioners than employees. Then who runs the country? Under Chancellor Merkel, the problem […]
