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The Central Association of German Seaport Operators (ZDS) has presented an offer in the wage dispute over the pay of port workers. It includes two options with different terms, each with a significant real wage increase, the association announced on Saturday. The trade union verdi announced that it would now present the offer to its members for a vote. The ZDS and verdi spent two days in the northern port city of Bremen negotiating pay for around 11,000 employees from Hamburg, Bremen and the state of Lower Saxony. It was already the fourth round of negotiations in the wage dispute. The wage di...
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The Central Association of German Seaport Operators (ZDS) has presented an offer in the wage dispute over the pay of port workers. It includes two options with different terms, each with a significant real wage increase, the association announced on Saturday. The trade union verdi announced that it would now present the offer to its members for a vote. The ZDS and verdi spent two days in the northern port city of Bremen negotiating pay for around 11,000 employees from Hamburg, Bremen and the state of Lower Saxony. It was already the fourth round of negotiations in the wage dispute. The wage di...
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Fiction writers who use artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots end up churning out narratives that are more alike than those penned by people, according to a team of UK-based academics. Researchers at the University College London and University of Exeter found that when AI output was added to fiction, the outcome was stories that "decreased in novelty, overall" as these tales ended up "more similar to each other than stories by humans alone." At the same time, using AI somehow "may be able to improve the creativity of individual writers" even if the end product echoes that of fellow would-be a...
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People who are night owls could be sharper than morning people, a new study suggests. Those who are most active and alert in the evenings appear to perform better at cognitive tests. Researchers, led by academics from Imperial College London, said that various studies have examined sleep and cognitive abilities- in particular the length that someone sleeps – but little is known about sleep patterns, or chronotypes, and cognition. So they examined data on thousands of people taking part in the UK Biobank study to examine the “intricate relationships” between sleep duration, quality and chronoty...
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German coalition leaders have agreed to lower bureaucratic hurdles for foreign nationals seeking employment in the country. Under the terms of the preliminary 2025 national budget, which was agreed on Friday by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the powers of German immigration authorities to reject work permits are set to be limited. Habeck said foreign nationals should automatically be allowed to take up employment in Germany, unless immigration authorities object within 14 days. Integrating more refugees and prospective taxpayers in...
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Please disregard the itme 'Ireland's Aer Lingus to cancel 76 additional flights amid pay row' which was filed to this wire in error. A copy of the text can be found on the 3p wire.
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AI innovators have already been told of the risks their chatbots bring, from potentially costing millions of people their jobs to "hallucinating" false information when fielding user queries. But a more immediate risk could be the prejudices that such software reinforces: According to University of Washington (UW) researchers, the best-known model, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, appears to be biased against people with disabilities, going by how it ranks resumes. The Seattle-based team found ChatGPT to have "consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honours and credentials" as "lower than the sam...
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There are so many reasons why we keep delaying that workout - everyday life, the unexpected, stress. For all those lacking time or motivation to build a regular fitness routine, workout stacking is a great way to fit some exercise into a busy day. Also known as fitness stacking, the method is aimed at making it easier to introduce exercise into your daily routine. And the best part is: You don't need a gym membership. Ten-minute exercise units Fitness stacking means "stacking" up a workout out of different building blocks by exercising in shorter intervals throughout the day, according to Sven...
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German companies could generate an additional €49 billion ($52 billion) worth of goods and services in 2024 if they could meet their demands for skilled labour, according to a new study. The addition of some 573,000 qualified workers would raise production potential by about 1.1 percentage points in the current year, said the paper released by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW). By 2027, the added value could total as much as €74 billion, its two authors calculated, using extrapolations to determine the skilled labour gap. Unlike the actual production result, the production poten...
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Argentinian trade union federation CGT brought public transport and air traffic to a standstill on Thursday in a nationwide general strike protesting against the austerity policies of libertarian President Javier Milei. With employees unable to reach their workplaces, many shops remained closed. The strike affected banks, supermarkets, schools, universities, transport, waste collection and the postal services. The government criticized the second general strike in five months. "They should stop being annoying and start working," said Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, calling the industrial ...
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