„Weltpremiere – Lesbe wird Regierungschefin in Island.“, titelte Welt-Online, als Jóhanna Si-gurðardóttir die erste Regierungschefin Islands wurde. Nach Bildung einer Minderheitsregierung aus Sozialdemokraten und Linksgrünen tritt Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir ihr Amt in äußerst schweren Zeiten an. Island und seine ca. 320.000 EinwohnerInnen sind schwer von der Finanzkrise betrof-fen.
McDonald’s Europe will die Mobilität von Beschäftigten in Europa fördern. Dazu startete die Fast-Food-Kette die „McPassport-Initiative“. In dem McPassport wird den Beschäftigten be-scheinigt, welche Schulungen und Kompetenzen sie bei McDonald’s erworben haben. Mit Noten beurteilt werden soziale Kompetenzen, wie Teamarbeit und Kommunikation, sowie Pünktlich-keit und die äußere Erscheinung. Wie ein Reisepass dient er den Beschäftigten […]
Laut einer Befragung von 3.600 weiblichen und männlichen Führungskräften mittlerer und grö-ßerer Unternehmen in 18 Ländern sind es insbesondere Frauen, die bereit sind, sich für ihre Kar-riere stärker einzusetzen. Die Studie „Untapped Potential: Stretching Toward the Future“ von Accenture geht den Motivationen und Hürden im Arbeitsalltag nach. 80 Prozent der Frauen sind bereit, anspruchsvollere Aufgaben […]
BT has announced its new, four-year title sponsorship of the BT Paralympic World Cup. The BT Paralympic World Cup is the largest annual international multi-sport competition in elite disability sport, and takes place from 20-25 May 2009 in Manchester. BT Group Marketing and Brand Director Suzi Williams said,
Although women may have difficulties breaking through the glass ceilings of big business, they are beginning to take charge in the Public Sector. Within the recent months alone, the first female Minister of Saudi Arabia and the first female and openly lesbian Prime Minister of Iceland were appointed. In the case of Saudi Arabia, appointing […]
Pepsi Bottling has created one of the most diverse boards, in terms of gender and ethnicity, of any company in the Fortune 500 with four women, one of them Hispanic; one African-American man; and one Mexican man among its 10 members. Eric J. Foss, chairman and chief executive of the Pepsi Bottling Group, sat down […]
Between autumn 2007 and spring 2008, a series of national training seminars were financed by the European Commission and carried out in all EU Member States, Turkey, Norway and Iceland. 1100 participants from NGOs and nearly 300 participants from trade unions were trained in national non-discrimination seminars, raising awareness and understanding of national legislation and […]
This European Commission released guide explains the current issues of today’s family and working policies and offers best practices and approaches to support work-life balance with European Structural Funds (ESF). These funds have already financed over 2,5 billion Euros for campaigns to reconcile work and family life and for the promotion of female employment.
McDonald’s Europe has launched the most significant private sector initiative to promote European employee mobility with its McPassport. The McPassport, an official certification of the training and skills that employees have acquired while employed by McDonald’s, is designed to support the movement of McDonald’s restaurant employees throughout the European Union.
In lieu of the UN’s Native Language Day, UNESCO has released a new “Atlas of the Languages of the World.” This compilation not only provides information on some 2500 languages, out of the more than 6,000 most linguists say exist, but also classifies those in terms of the risk they face over the next century.
