The National Court has established that holidays falling on the weekly rest day on Saturday must be compensated and entitle the enjoyment of an additional day of rest. This is set forth in a ruling that responds to the collective dispute raised against the agreement of the customer service center sector (“contact center”).
Every poem is an act of hope on the part of the poet, and so proclaimed Margaret Atwood, much more than the author of The Handmaid’s Tale. The 86-year-old Canadian writer received this Wednesday, from the hands of the King, the Joan Margarit poetry prize, in an event held at Victoria College of the University of Toronto, through whose campus a king and a poet were seen walking.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have opened an investigation to clarify the facts of a new shooting without injuries in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. This time, the firearm incident occurred this Wednesday at around 9:30 p.m. on Siglo XXI Avenue in Viladecans. According to sources from the Generalitat of Catalonia Police, there are no reported injuries. Other sources aware of the events claim that everything happened after an argument on the terrace of a bar.
The Community of Madrid denounces that the City Council of Rivas (IU-PSOE) keeps publicly displaying a model of its project to cover the metro tracks, despite the fact that the action “currently does not have” the favorable report from the technical services of the regional Directorate General of Infrastructures.
A middle-aged man died after being trapped between his vehicle and a column in a garage located on Alcántara Street in Madrid, the capital’s Emergency service reported early this morning.
The Minister of Education, Science and Universities of the Community of Madrid, Mercedes Zarzalejo, and the Labor Platform of Nursery Schools will meet this Thursday at 4:30 p.m., after more than a month of indefinite strike in the region.
The delay in obtaining major construction permits in Alicante has been a constant in recent times, which developers and professionals in the construction sector denounce wherever they find interlocutors. This happened at a recent technical conference organized by the Colleges of Architects and Technical Architects together with representatives from the Urban Planning Department. The aim was to bring together those who draft the technical documents with those who supervise and approve them, in order to streamline procedures and administrative processes.
Neither the words of businessman Juan Roig asking to monetize the arrival of tourists nor the possibility of opening the debate on the tourist tax hinted at by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, after the Fallas, have affected the positioning of PP and Vox in the Valencian Courts. Both parties will reject this Thursday the proposals from PSPV and Compromís to recover this tax on tourist overnight stays that was approved by the Botànic but never implemented. A moratorium was established and, after the regional elections, the new parliamentary majority repealed it.
The non-appointment of Mónica Oltra as Compromís’s candidate for the Mayor of València is generating tension within the coalition. The fact that a first major pre-campaign event has been organized without her further fuels doubts. Compromís will hold events on May 22 and 23 in 19 towns of the Valencian Community to kick off the 2027 municipal campaign. In the València event, which will be held on Saturday at the Malva-Rosa promenade, the presence of the virtual candidate for Mayor is not planned, as this newspaper reported yesterday.
La diputada Glòria Freixa, secretaria primera de la Mesa del Parlament, is considering joining the Junts primaries to lead the Barcelona list for next year’s municipal elections. In the coming days, she will make a decision and could be the fourth contender if the other three who have publicly expressed their willingness to participate in the process at some point are confirmed.