Until today, the influence of the human resources (HR) department rises and falls depending on how professionals respond to the constant challenge of keeping a workplace functional, profitable, and valuable enough for its core elements. However, the speed of current technological breakthroughs has no historical precedent.
With 505 votes in favor, 92 against, and 44 abstentions, European Parliament adopted new legislation on adequate minimum wages in the European Union (EU) on September 14, 2022. The minimum wage should ensure a decent standard of living, while EU rules must respect national wage-setting practices.
During the process of searching for a new job it is possible to end up with multiple options. This means that you can be both exciting and stressful, concerning your needs, the environmental factors, and the actual plan that you want to develop for your career.
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), which has as its mission the supervision of the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), fined Clearview AI 20 million euros for unlawful processing of biometric data and ordered it to stop the collection of such data, as well as to delete all existing data.
Greece claims that as a nation it has been making Feta since ancient times, while in 2002 was awarded protected status. This type of cheese is part of Greek origin protection mechanisms, so only cheese made in Greece can be sold as such. According to Homer’s epic poems Cyclops Polyphemus, son of the god of sea Poseidon, was the first cheese, and in particular feta, maker in the world 3,000 years ago.
A new report from Yell titled “How Artificial Is Our Intelligence?” that focuses on the potential and the impact of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business has revealed some very interesting facts. Through AI it is possible to save time, money, and human working hours.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other disruptive technologies have the potential to increase human well-being substantially. We need to build on this new reality by focusing on options for regulating the use of AI and algorithmic management systems across the world. Workers and employers will increasingly be confronted with AI applications and AI-induced software. This means that labor relations will be affected on a great level.
The World Bank recently (18/5) announced planned actions for global food crisis response to the ongoing food security turbulence. More than 30-billion-dollar funds will be used by The World Bank in existing and new projects in areas such as agriculture, nutrition, social protection, water, and irrigation.
A nuclear holocaust, or in other words a nuclear apocalypse, is -still- a theoretical scenario where the mass detonation of nuclear weapons causes an unprecedented global destruction and radioactive fallout.
A sanction is actually a penalty imposed by one country (or a group) on another, and it is used as a tool to stop the country acting aggressively or breaking international law. Sanctions are designed to hurt the economy in general and the finances of individual citizens of a given country. So, is Russia still in the global economic game?
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin (born 1952), launched an invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. As the aftermath of the dramatic escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014, this new war is the largest conventional military attack on European lands since World War II.
Employee monitoring in United States is a completely legal action. The state of New York will apply the new digital monitoring law very soon. Actually, it goes into effect on May 7, 2022. So, what a digital monitoring law is? How will employees benefit from this law change?
The pandemic event of Covid-19 is still here. This is not, however, the reason to stop every economic activity around the world. Thus, we must ensure that workers have great working conditions, they feel safe, and everyone together can make added value to achieve corporate and personal goals.
