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German companies could generate an additional €49 billion ($52 billion) worth of goods and services in 2024 if they could meet their demands for skilled labour, according to a new study. The addition of some 573,000 qualified workers would raise production potential by about 1.1 percentage points in the current year, said the paper released by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW). By 2027, the added value could total as much as €74 billion, its two authors calculated, using extrapolations to determine the skilled labour gap. Unlike the actual production result, the production poten...
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Argentinian trade union federation CGT brought public transport and air traffic to a standstill on Thursday in a nationwide general strike protesting against the austerity policies of libertarian President Javier Milei. With employees unable to reach their workplaces, many shops remained closed. The strike affected banks, supermarkets, schools, universities, transport, waste collection and the postal services. The government criticized the second general strike in five months. "They should stop being annoying and start working," said Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, calling the industrial ...
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Maybe a co-worker has talked you into taking part in the upcoming company run. Or you've resolved to take on more sporting challenges and registered for a 10-kilometre run or half marathon in your city. How best to prepare? If you're an inexperienced runner, you should consider your fitness level and whether you're really up to the undertaking. "It's probably a bad idea to prepare for a marathon if, for example, you're overweight or have a cardiovascular disease," says sports medicine physician Dr Thomas Schneider. He advises novice runners to first consult their GP, who can give them a medica...
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The journalists' union USIGrai has called for a 24-hour strike at Italian public broadcaster Rai on May 6 and 7, mainly to protest against interference by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. They accused Meloni of wanting to turn the broadcaster into a "mouthpiece of the government." The background to this is the last-minute disinvitation of the writer Antonio Scurati, who wanted to read a text on the day of Italy's liberation from German occupation and fascism on April 25. During the performance, he wanted to criticize Meloni's party for its post-fascist origins. The t...
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German materials trading firm thyssenkrupp Schulte has announced plans to restructure its business and cut almost one in five full-time jobs in Germany. Locations are also to be closed and "a total of around 450 jobs are to be eliminated," the company, a subsidiary of industrial giant thyssenkrupp, announced on Wednesday. Thyssenkrupp Schulte currently has around 2,300 full-time jobs at its more than 40 locations in Germany. "In the course of the restructuring, job cuts and the closure of several locations are unavoidable," the company said. A thyssenkrupp Schulte spokesman said the company wo...
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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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