How Europe marked International Workers’ Day; Wikileaks’ Assange sentenced to jail, and more top news
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Some violence marred International Workers’ Day marches across Europe yesterday. While the majority of demonstrations were peaceful, in Paris more than 220 people were detained after attacks on police, with further arrests in Gothenburg, Berlin, Copenhagen and St Petersburg. In Spain, workers marched to have their voices heard after Sunday’s elections, while trade unions in Greece called a 24-hour strike on rail and ferry services. Workers in Bulgaria — which has the lowest minimum wage in the EU — played music as they called for higher pay rates. ? Here’s what people are saying.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced by a British judge to 50 weeks in jail for breaching bail in 2012, when he was waiting for extradition to Sweden on sexual-assault accusations. The move comes just one day ahead of a hearing on whether he should be sent to the US for a trial over the leak of classified documents in 2010. Last month, Ecuador ended Assange’s asylum and allowed British police to arrest him at its embassy after seven years. ? Here’s what people are saying.
Striking airline SAS has started negotiations with pilot unions. The Scandinavian carrier says it is hoping to resume flights as early as this afternoon after talks began yesterday. SAS pilots in Sweden, Denmark and Norway walked off the job on Friday demanding better pay and working conditions — leading to the cancellation of over 3,000 flights and affecting around 35,000 passengers. Chairman Carsten Dilling says investors should now prepare for the possibility that the company will not generate a profit this year, per Bloomberg. ? Here’s what people are saying.
British PM Theresa May is encouraging women to apply to become the next Bank of England governor. May, who began her career at the bank, made the comments ahead of Mark Carney’s departure from the role in nine months’ time. Speaking separately, the bank's top oversight official, Bradley Fried, said the next governor should be the best person for the job regardless of gender, but acknowledged it would be a historically significant event, given the role has been held only by men for more than three centuries. ? Here’s what people are saying.
Swiss employees can now get their medical certificates over WhatsApp, thanks to German startup AU-shein. Forgoing the need to visit a doctor’s surgery, sick workers can obtain a certificate through the app for just €9 after answering a series of questions from a virtual doctor. The service is limited to patients with common colds. The Swiss medical establishment has criticised the model, claiming it fails to meet quality standards and threatens to violate the trust between employers and workers. ? Here’s what people are saying.
Idea of the day: Employees are not the only ones who need mentoring, says Advisor Marla Gottschalk.
"When management skills are neglected, leaders often walk a fine line between expressing power and remaining relatable, which is difficult to master."
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5 年Interesting. I would actually write this in the opposite way. I would say " When 'Leadership' skills are neglected, 'Managers' often walk a fine line between expressing power and remaining relatable, which is difficult to master." Just my take on it.?
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5 年When management skills are neglected, leaders often walk a fine line between expressing power and remaining relatable, which is difficult to master." YESYESYES!
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5 年Employees are not the only ones who need mentoring. When management skills are neglected, leaders often walk a fine line between expressing power and remaining relatable.
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5 年In Lithuania worker's day became work's day ??
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5 年Assange only did what every journalist should be doing.? Exposed the corruption of the elites.? He spoke truth to power.? He is being persecuted for that.? He is the victim of the modern day inquisition.? Anyone who claims otherwise is anti-democratic, anti-free-press, and anti-free-speech.? And this is why things are going down in the West.? People who call themselves "journalists" at the NYT, WaPo, Guardian, or FoxNews, DailyMail do not do any of what Assange was doing.? Our elites have no feedback on how terrible they are.