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Telefónica sought to dismiss 4,525 employees with its ERE. Now you have a problem called 5,124 volunteers

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Telefónica has closed the first phase of your ERE in Spain with more employees wanting to leave the company than places available in the ERE. 5,124 workers from the different subsidiaries of the operator presented themselves as candidates to benefit from the ERE. Of these volunteers to leave the company, 352 candidates have been left out because the maximum number of dismissals agreed with the unions has been exceeded. This excess of volunteers worries union representatives. Volunteers to be fired. At the end of December, the company and unions signed the conditions for the Employment Regulation File that will affect seven subsidiaries of the Telefónica group: Telefónica de España, Telefónica Móviles, Telefónica Soluciones, Telefónica Global Solutions, Telefónica Innovación Digital, Telefónica SA and Movistar+. There A minimum of 4,525 departures was set for the entire group, reducing the number of layoffs by 25.6% from the 6,088 that the company planned at the beginning. This implies a reduction of 26.2% of the 17,248 employees of those seven companies. The bulk of the layoffs he was going to concentrate on the matrix and its two main subsidiaries. That is, Telefónica España, Telefónica Móviles and Telefónica Soluciones for which a minimum of 3,765 departures and a maximum of 5,040 were marked. According to pointed Digital EconomyIn these three subsidiaries, 3,995 volunteers have been registered in Telefónica de España, 990 in Móviles and 179 in Solutions, adding up to a total of 5,124 requests to join the ERE. 84 more than the maximum limit provided for them. How many applications are accepted. Of the requests presented for these three subsidiaries, Telefónica has accepted a total of 4,772 exits, which are distributed as follows: 3,649 exits in Telefónica de España, 960 in Mobile and 163 in Solutions, reaching 100% of the objective. That leaves 352 rejected, distributed as follows: 306 in Telefónica de España, 30 in Mobile and 16 in Solutions. It is not the first time that there are more applications for membership than departure places. A similar phenomenon also occurred in the company’s previous ERE. In fact, the unions are asking that priority be given to those employees who were rejected in the previous ERE of 2024reinforcing the voluntary nature of the measure and avoiding forced dismissals. Unions are concerned about the excess. In a statementCCOO insists that the ERE is voluntary and agreed upon, but the excess of applications submitted to the company’s headquarters has them worried. The union insists on analyzing the background that has led so many employees to express their desire to leave the company. “The large number of requests also shows discontent and the need to leave Telefónica, a worrying issue because it indicates a clear dissatisfaction of the staff in the exercise of their professional development,” the union interpreted. What remains to be decided. With the three majority subsidiaries of the Related Companies Agreement already almost closed, it is time to analyze the applications from Telefónica Global Solutions, Telefónica SA, Telefónica Innovación Digital and Movistar+. For these three subsidiaries Global Solutions, Telefónica SA and Telefónica Innovación Digital, 416 volunteers have presented themselves for the 585 planned departures (109 in Global Solutions, 182 in Innovación Digital and 294 in Telefónica SA). This accession leaves these subsidiaries with coverage of 71.11% of the total, forcing the company to look for new candidates and opt for forced dismissals. Something that unions want to avoid at all costs. In other words, while in the group’s headquarters some employees want to leave and cannot, in the smaller subsidiaries they will have to fire employees who want to stay. No news from Movistar+. The Movistar+ TV platform It is the big unknown at the moment, since the numbers of applications to benefit from the ERE, which will affect 175 employees of this division, which represents 20% of its workforce, have not yet been made public. In Xataka | Severance compensation: when there is the right to collect it according to the type of dismissal and how it is calculated Image | Telephone

The only way to confirm the signs of life on Mars is to bring the rock to the earth: there are three great volunteers

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NASA’s Rover Perseverance has given us one of the most exciting news of recent years. In an old river bed in the Jezero crater, he has found a rock that could contain, In the words of NASA directorone of the “clearest signs of life we ​​have seen on Mars.” Baptized as Cheyava Falls, the rock has dark deposits whose chemical, mineral and textural characteristics, on earth, are associated with microbial life. But scientists cannot be safe from here. Unless… Mars Sample Return. Perseverance did his job: in July of last year he identified a place of very high scientific interest, analyzed the rock with its instruments and, most importantly, pierced a core of the rock and kept it in a sealed sampling tube. This little treasure, along with 29 other sampling tubes, waits patiently on the Martian surface. The problem is that, however advanced the instruments of the rover are, they have their limits. To confirm if those possible “biofirmas” are the product of old microorganisms or geochemical processes without biological intervention, there is only one solution: bringing samples to the earth to analyze them in our laboratories. And this is where The plans collide with a hard reality. The plan to collect these samples, the ambitious Mars Sample Return mission, has been de facto canceled waiting for a cheaper and faster solution. Truncated due to lack of budget. NASA’s original plan to collect the 30 samples of the Perseverance Rover was to send a ship to the surface of Mars, that a small rocket would take off with the samples (delivered by Rover itself or by a drone) and that an orbiter (in this case, contributed by the European Space Agency) to bring them back home. The project ended up becoming a bottomless well. According to an external audit, the budget shot up to 11,000 million dollars with an estimated date for 2040. The situation reached such an extent that the US administration He proposed to cancel Mars Sample Return for his excessive budgetprioritizing other programs such as Artemis to return to the moon. NASA was forced to put the project in pause and look for faster and more cheap alternatives. A career to counterreloj. Time runs against NASA. Not only for the potential historical value of these samples, but because China plans to launch its own sampling mission in 2028. Tianwen-3 is a simpler mission, which would not bring selected rocks but from the ground where the probe landed, but that would return to Earth in 2031. It would be a Sorpasso symbolic in full rule, advancing the United States in a milestone that had at hand. Before the collapse of its official plan and the probable symbolic defeat, NASA did what has been best given in recent years: to look at the private sector. The agency Explore two paths simultaneously: one based on public technology already tested, such as the “Sky Crane” landing system of Curiosity and Perseverance, and another open to “new commercial capabilities.” Voluntary companies. They haven’t taken to appear. Lockheed Martin has put on the table a groundbreaking proposal: executing the mission For less than 3,000 million dollars and under a fixed price contract, which means that it would assume any extra cost. Your plan is based on reusing and adapting technology already tested in missions such as Insight and Osiris-Rexwith a simpler and more light architecture than the original Mars Sample Return. Another of the great candidates is Rocket Lab, a company that, despite its youth, also has experience on the red planet: its components travel aboard Perseverance and other missions. Your proposal is to send a probe to collect the samples and send them to the Martian orbit and a second probe to bring them to the earth, with a third probe called Telecommunications Orbiter for Mars (MTO) that not only would support the mission, but would serve as a basis for future manned missions, establishing a robust communications network between Mars and the land that Rocket Lab could exploit commercially for decades. And Spacex? NASA It does not rule out using starship as a vehicle to bring to the Martian surface all the necessary equipment. If Elon Musk fulfills its ambitious deadlines, Starship could offer an unprecedented load capacity to an unbeatable cost. The final decision on which path is expected for the second half of 2026. What is clear is that NASA is at a crossroads. The samples collected by Perseverance have the potential to confirm that on Mars there was extraterrestrial life. But to find the answer, you must first bring them home. And the solution may not be in a public program, but in companies that have offered to do the job for less than half. Image | Rocket Lab In Xataka | Perseverance has found what, according to NASA’s director, is “the clearest indication of life we ​​have seen on Mars”

Look for 4,000 volunteers with these requirements

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There was a time when payment cards occupied space in the wallet and could be forgotten at home. Today, most already lives on our mobile. In public transport, that transition is still slower. But if you use the transport fertilizer of the Community of Madrid, there is an important novelty: very soon you can take it on the mobile. No physical cards. At least, in theory. Because it will not be for everyone, or in any way. A pilot test for 4,000 users. The implementation of the digital transport fertilizer starts with a controlled test. The Community of Madrid has invited 4,000 people to participate in the first official pilota phase designed to validate the operation of the app, analyze the behavior of readers on the network and collect data on the real use of the system. Not everyone can access this option immediately. Participation requires prior registration, and those selected will receive custom instructions to download the app, digitize their physical card and start traveling with the mobile. This first phase will have an estimated duration of 12 weeks. How the app works and what do you need to use it. The operation is simple: you digitize your physical card through the new mitarjetatransporte app, and from there you can bring your mobile device to the access or validator lathe where you start your trip, as if it were a physical card. But not any mobile is worth. To join this test you need a device with Android 9.0 or superior, technology NFC and the application Google Wallet installed. The virtual card is not managed from the original app, but is saved directly in Wallet. And if you have an iPhone, for now, you will stay out: this first version is only compatible with Android. The cards that can be digitized. The MY transport card is only compatible with the Personal Public Transport Card (Personal TTP) and, more specifically, with monthly type fertilizers. They are out of this test: The children’s card The blue card Annual fertilizers Non -personal or other users Digitization is designed for individual and exclusive use. Register is not automatic: thus you can participate in the test. Sinning to this pilot test requires a previous step. It is not enough to have the app or compatible mobile: you have to fill out a Official form available on this link and wait confirmation. In that form some key data are requested, such as the model of your mobile, the Android version and the email you use on Google Wallet. Once the application is sent, you will receive a proof. If everything goes well and you are selected, you will get an email from testappcrtm@madrid.org With the download link and the steps to start. You have a two -week margin to complete the process. You digitize your card, but physics stop working. When you activate the virtual card, physics is deactivated. It is not a copy or a duplicate version: the system transfers your payment to the mobile and leaves the original card useless. It is a complete change, although reversible if later you decide to return to the physical format. This measure seeks to avoid fraud and ensure that each payment can only be used from a single support. Therefore, if you are thinking of trying the app, it is convenient to be clear that there is no immediate back: you have to request it if you want to return to the physical card. What tickets and fertilizers can you use from the mobile. During the test, the virtual card allows you to keep the titles already loaded in the physical TTP and acquire new ones from the mobile. The following are available: Personal titles: monthly transport fertilizer Non -personal titles: 10 trips, airport supplement, tourist ticket Annual titles and those associated with non -compatible cards, such as children or blue are out of this version. The system also does not allow the use of simple tickets from the app. What if something fails? Thus the problems are reported. It can happen: this is a test and the consortium needs to know what fails. For that they have enabled a form within the app itself, where you can report errors in the discharge, validation, recharge or general operation. You can also write directly to testappcrtm@madrid.org. It is not necessary for the failure to be serious: even a small detail helps improve the system. If everything goes well, you can also leave comments or suggestions. And if any validator does not work, remember: you can consult and show the balance of your card from the app. That serves as proof in case they ask you to justify that you carry the active fertilizer. Other important limitations that you must take into account. Before throwing you, some limitations should be clear. The virtual card does not replace everything. For example, you will not be able to use it to access free parkings linked to public transport, since the system is not yet enabled at those points. In addition, participation demands commitment: if you do not make real use during the pilot’s weeks, they could cancel you. It is not enough to download the app and leave it there. And an important detail: the link to download the app will only be active for two weeks. If not complete the process within that period, you will have to start over (if you allow it). After the pilot, the digital card will remain active. The use of the digital card does not end with the test. Once the pilot ends – previso with a duration of about 12 weeks – users can continue to use their digitized TTP without returning to the physical card. The objective of the consortium is to progressively extend this option to the set of users. But, for now, there is no confirmed date for its general implementation. This phase will be used to evaluate the system and prepare the ground for its complete deployment. … Read more

In Denmark more and more people are getting ready as volunteers for civil defense. Just in case

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The Danish National Guard, better known as Hjemmeværnet or for its HJV initials, it already has Eight decades of history behind him, but he had rarely lived a April more moved than that of 2025. Throughout the last month almost 800 Danish They showed interest in joining the ranks of this body of volunteers created to “Respond to emergencies” and support the country’s defense. You have to go back to the 80sin full cold war and tensions with the USSR, to find a spring start with better recruitment data. The increase in interest in the HJV comes at a very special moment at the geopolitical level: after three years of War in Ukrainea Emboldened Russia and with Trump sowing doubts on the future of the US in NATO and showing their interest in Annex Greenlandnow under Danish sovereignty. A fact: 1,732 inscriptions. In a convulsive geopolitical scenario and with Copenhagen pending what happens in kyiv, Moscow and Washington, more and more Danes They show interest in The HJVa body formed by trained volunteers to act in emergency cases and support the country’s army. The data are revealing. During the first quarter of the year 1,732 Danes They filled and confirmed the form to register in the National Guard. During the same 2024 period they did 1,041 And in 2023 there were 663. In just two years the growth, at least during those months, was 161%. And interest does not seem to be referring, like They recognize From HJV itself: last month 764 people confirmed their desire to enlist. You have to go back to the 80s to find an April in which the Hjemmeværnet aroused so much interest. “Have you valued to join?” With this backdrop data, Voxmeter recently conducted a survey for the Danish news agency Ritzau that throws another striking figure. Its technicians interviewed 1,018 people to those who asked the same question: “Have you considered joining the National Guard?” The majority (85.8%) replied that no, but 9.5% gave an affirmative response and 4.5% acknowledged that “he does not know,” which means that he does not rule it out either. The figure is relevant due to its reach (the tenth values ​​to swell the ranks of the organization), but also for what it tells us about the image of the HJV. Bent Åge Andersen, a National Guard veteran, Recognize to the newspaper BERLINGSKE that the Danes no longer look with the same eyes to the volunteers. “Before it was usual for people to smile when we exercised and we arrived uniformed and with weapons. We called the weekend soldiers. It was a joke for years. But today there is a totally different attitude.” What exactly do they do? In Your official page HJV is presented as “a voluntary emergency response military organization that supports the Danish defense.” With that purpose its members, who include civilians who work in companies that have nothing to do with weapons, carry out military training. eldiario.es I spoke recently With one of the new volunteers, Anne Kaae, a 38 -year -old woman without prior military experience. If you have decided to take the step, he explains, it is for “the concern” that generates “what happens in the world.” “A wide range of tasks”. In an article published this weekend, the newspaper Describe A training on the outskirts of Copenhagen with 40 men and women who when the HJV uniforms are taken are normal civilians. There is some war veteran, but most study or work in trades that have nothing to do with weapons. Thanks to the military training they receive, the National Guard has participated in Surveillance worksearches for missing or preparation against extreme weathering phenomena. Especially on Danish soil. “We solve a wide range of tasks for the armed forces, the global emergency response and civil society,” The HJV emphasizeswhich recalls that, to a lesser extent, its volunteers also offer support in international missions outside Denmark. In March the Ministry of Defense claimed that the number of active volunteers exceeds 14,000. The registration flow has been so high that Recognize that the new ones can find “an extra waiting time.” Matters how much … and does when. The increase in HJV enlistments is important, but so is the geopolitical context in which it comes, mainly marked by three major scenarios: Ukraine, Russia and the US. To the three years of war in Ukraine, from January 20, Trump’s return to the White House, his approach to Moscow, the distancing with the EU and its Declarations about NATOthat have sown doubts about what degree of involvement Washington will have from now on in the Atlantic Alliance. If the scenario were not complex enough in itself, in the case of Denmark another extra factor is added that has further tensioned the relationship with Washington: Greenland. Trump ha OpenamentAnd his desire for the US to control the Arctic Island, now administratively linked to Copenhagen, and has even suggested that it could resort to force to achieve its goal. “I do not say that I will do it, but I do not rule out anything. We need Greenland with urgency. We need it for international security,” argued The American leader a few days ago during an interview at the NBC News. “A dangerous situation”. Beyond the HJV, Denmark has decided to redouble his commitment to the defensal. In February the government headed by Mette Frederiksen announced its plans to mobilize 6,700 million euros in two years for a Urgent reinforcement of his defense. The objective: achieve 3.2% of GDP. “We are in the most dangerous situation in many, many years. Therefore, because of the Russian threat, to defend Denmark and avoid war, we promote a new reinforcement,” summed up the Danish Prime Minister, who made at the beginning of the month A visit to the National Guard. Copenhagen’s redoubled military effort also contemplates dedicating 53.6 million euros to HJV equipment. Denmark is not the only one that is increasing its commitment to military spending. The EU … Read more

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