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Tesla says it is reducing the number of temporary workers at its only European plant near Berlin, after announcing plans to cut 10% of its global workforce. A spokeswoman for the company said 300 temporary workers had been given notice. "This is not a termination of Tesla employees," she said. The portal Business Insider had earlier reported that the contracts of temporary workers would not be extended. The spokeswoman told dpa: "As far as we know, our contractual partner has already been able to transfer the majority of these temporary workers to new employment with other customers." In March...
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Despite the increasingly difficult labour market, the employment of refugees from Ukraine and other key countries of origin for asylum seekers in Germany is on the rise. Daniel Terzenbach, the German government's special representative for the labour market integration of refugees, said in an interview with dpa that the so-called "job turbo," launched at the end of last year, is beginning to take effect. The job turbo is intended to help fill vacancies with refugees and speed up their integration into the labour market. "We can see that the job turbo is going in the right direction, the more i...
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Berlin (dpa) — Too loud, too clunky, too heavy, and not exactly cheap: There are many reservations about classic mechanical keyboards. Flat, light, and inexpensive models, typically what's known as "membrane keyboards" have become commonplace. However, there’s also a market for modern mechanical keyboards. It's not just PC gamers who swear by them — other user groups such as frequent writers often favour the clear pressure point or characteristic click sound they provide. There are basically two different technologies used for keyboards today: membrane keyboards made of materials such as rubbe...
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We all experience "microstresses," some of us more than others: bumps in the road of our lives so small and brief that we barely register them. Not like macrostresses, such as racing your birthing wife to hospital and having your car break down or seeing the bridge ahead has washed out. But while microstresses may seem harmless individually, cumulatively they can sap our energy and damage our physical and emotional health, warn three US researchers. In an article in the Harvard Business Review, based on research on 300 "high performers" in multinational organizations and a global sample of mor...
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Aargh!! Anger isn't a pleasant feeling. But it can help push you to overcome obstacles and achieve challenging goals, so don't try to avoid, suppress or ignore it, but harness its power for your purposes, says Heather Lench, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Texas A&M University. Writing in the popular-science magazine Scientific American, Lench says anger is a signal that you've encountered a challenge to a goal you care about. When it hits you, she says, you should "stop, orient to what’s happening and consider the best way to respond" to achieve your goal. Then act accordin...
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After days of negotiations, the German industrial union IG Metall and five companies in the supplier park at Ford in the western town of Saarlouis have reached a negotiation outcome. "We have concluded agreements with the five plants," Ralf Cavelius, lead negotiator for the local branch of union, told dpa on Sunday evening. "And for all of them, we have achieved a result that is commendable and significantly stands out from normal social plan issues," he said. On Monday, there will be employee meetings in the individual companies where votes will be cast on accepting the collective bargaining ...
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Production at the US car manufacturer Ford's plant in western Germany resumed on Thursday following the temporary return to work of employees from several suppliers in the city of Saarlouis on the French border. "I can confirm that production was at a standstill until yesterday and that Ford Focuses have been rolling off the production line again since this morning," a Ford spokeswoman said in Cologne. After four days of strike action, the local branch of the IG Metall union called on around 500 employees from five supplier companies in the industrial park in Saarlouis to temporarily resume wo...
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The German trade union verdi is keeping up the pressure with further strikes ahead of the third round of collective bargaining for the postal bank, Postbank, verdi announced on Thursday. Employees in branches and call centres across Germany are once again being called out on strike for Friday and Saturday, verdi said. "We expect a significantly improved offer from the employers in the next round of negotiations," verdi negotiator Jan Duscheck said. The negotiations are to continue on Monday in the city of Frankfurt. Verdi is demanding 15.5% more money for around 12,000 employees in the Deutsch...
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Wide-ranging strikes hitting Germany's state-owned rail network and flag carrier Lufthansa are having a significant impact on the country's ailing economy, the head of the highly regarded ifo economic institute said on Thursday. Speaking on national public television broadcaster ZDF, ifo President Clemens Fuest described the strikes as "an additional burden that [Germany] could well do without." German train drivers launched a 35-hour pay strike on Thursday, and Lufthansa ground staff began a two-day strike at the same time. "The economy is shrinking, and when something like this comes along i...
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The proportion of women in management positions in German federal government authorities is rising but not fast enough, Family Minister Lisa Paus said in Berlin ahead of International Women's Day on Friday. She noted that 19 of the main federal authorities still had fewer women than men in management positions. Paus put the proportion of female managers in these bodies at 43% in mid-2023, up two percentage points on the year. "Promoting equality must have the highest priority for the entire federal administration, so that we achieve the legal target of equal participation by women in managemen...
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