Reforms lower entry requirements for work visas according to professional qualifications, age and language skills.The German parliament has approved immigration reforms designed to attract skilled workers to the country, which is suffering from an unprecedented labor shortage. The legislation – initiated by the governing centre-left coalition of the Social Democrats, the liberal Free Democrats and the Greens – on Friday garnered 388 votes while 234 lawmakers voted against it and 31 abstained. A conservative parliamentary bloc made up of the Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, voted against the legislation, arguing that it would ease entry for unskilled labourers.…
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Workplace Bullying vs Reasonable Management Action: Firmness does not mean Harshness
[An] instruction is not the same thing as a disciplinary measure, and firmness does not equate to harshness.Deputy President Alan Colman Trainor v Council for Christian Education in Schools and others [2023] FWC 1272 (30 May 2023) People managers are constantly dealing with ever evolving deadlines, targets and expectations. An area of constant concern is people and especially when it comes to courageous or difficult conversations. If an employee is performing poorly, engaging with misconduct or just doing inappropriate behavior, the line between what is reasonable management action versus workplace bullying can seem to be blurred. A recent case of Trainor v Council for Christian Education in Schools and others [2023] FWC 1272 (30 May 2023) seems to demystify this further for those in human resources, people and culture and people management positions.…
‘No one is above the law’: Reactions to Trump’s indictment | Donald TrumpNews
Prosecutors in the United States have unsealed an indictment against Donald Trump, accusing the former president of putting the country’s national security at risk by mishandling classified documents after he left the White House in 2021. The Republican leader faces 37 criminal charges, including counts of retaining classified information, obstructing justice and making false statements, among other allegations. The federal indictment released on Friday accused Trump of mishandling classified documents that included information about the secretive US nuclear program and potential domestic vulnerabilities in the event of an attack. The former president, who is expected to appear at a federal court in Florida on Tuesday, had said a day earlier that the indictment was forthcoming.…
ChatGPT: Lawyers say AI tricked them into citing bogus case law
NEW YORK – Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references to past court cases that Schwartz thought were real, but were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. Schwartz explained that he used the groundbreaking program as he hunted for legal precedents supporting a client’s case against the Colombian airline Avianca for an injury incurred on a 2019 flight.…