“We are already recording a daily reduction of 5% in our electricity consumption,” said Olivier Véran on leaving the Council of Ministers. “The French are therefore sensitive to the sobriety plan, as are companies and obviously the State”, he then welcomed.Limit the temperature of its indoor heating, promote carpooling… The State has proposed various measures to encourage individuals to save energy. Rules are also in force for communities, businesses, etc. In particular, not to heat buildings above 19 degrees. Or...
Status: 10/18/2022 2:55 p.m Quick agreement between the union and the employers: More than half a million employees in the German chemical and pharmaceutical industry will receive substantial wage increases and one-off payments. The trade union IG BCE and the employers' association BAVC have agreed on a new collective bargaining package for employees in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The approximately 580,000 employees are to receive special payments totaling 3,000 euros per head. The one-off payments are then tax and...
Will consumers soon be affected by new price increases? The Regional Association of Food Industries (Aria) of Alsace called for it on Tuesday. She wants a "collective awareness" of the difficulties of companies in the sector in the face of soaring energy prices, expressing the need to "increase the prices" of products to restore margins.“We have inflation in France at 8.4% on food products, it is far below Germany, at 15.8%, or Spain, at 13.8%. This means that the (French)...
Status: 04/28/2022 08:14 a.m The number of newly founded startups in Germany has increased. Founders are focusing on new sectors - and one region in the south in particular is competing with the start-up capital of Berlin. By Lilli-Marie Hiltscher, tagesschau.de The number of new startups rose again in 2021. A total of 3348 new startups were founded in Germany last year. The number of start-ups rose by eleven percent compared to 2020. This is the result of an evaluation...
agreement "Bridge collective agreement" for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries For around 580,000 employees in the German chemical and pharmaceutical industry, there is initially only a partial qualification. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa © dpa-infocom GmbH The union had demanded wage increases above inflation, but then came the war in Ukraine. He turned collective bargaining for the chemical industry upside down. The war in Ukraine also overshadowed collective bargaining for around 580,000 employees in the German chemical and pharmaceutical industry. In view...
The war in Ukraine and the associated shortage of oil continue to cause prices at the gas pumps in the district to rise rapidly. A liter of petrol cost 2.28 euros on Tuesday afternoon in downtown Wolfratshausen, while a liter of diesel cost 2.33 euros, and elsewhere in the district even more than 2.40 euros. According to ADAC, since the outbreak of war on February 24 alone, the prices for Super and Diesel have risen by 25 and 38 percent...
In the first year of the pandemic, actors, artistic directors and museum directors had to make it clear to politicians: They do something different than operators of casinos or brothels, because culture has a special social significance. At some point it was said, it's actually true, that Covid measures shouldn't be any stricter in museums than in department stores, and no stricter in theaters than in restaurants. There was a pragmatic logic to this - even if that didn't take...
In the first year of the pandemic, actors, artistic directors and museum directors had to make it clear to politicians: They do something different than operators of casinos or brothels, because culture has a special social significance. At some point it was said, it's actually true, that Covid measures shouldn't be any stricter in museums than in department stores, and no stricter in theaters than in restaurants. There was a pragmatic logic to this - even if that didn't take...
When a western industrial group announced that it would invest billions in a new plant in the past few decades, the bells rang regularly at the company's headquarters - but the alarm bells. As a rule, the new factories were not built in Duisburg, Dijon or Detroit, but in low-wage paradises such as China, Vietnam, Malaysia or Taiwan. The governments concerned watched the race for ever lower production costs for a long time without doing anything: either because, like the...
Status: 11/19/2021 12:07 p.m. Representatives of the construction industry, several skilled trades and service providers consider a 3G rule in the workplace to be impractical. Instead, you advocate the introduction of 2G. In the opinion of industry associations, the 3G rule at the workplace decided by the federal government cannot be monitored and documented as prescribed in many professions. In the construction industry, the implementation of a 3G regulation is only possible to a limited extent due to the local...
