An enterprising unemployed man who was caught dealing in magic mushrooms has been told he does not have to pay the more than âŹ7,000 business start up money the German employment office gave him.
Up to 10,000 long-term unemployed Germans will be trained to care for people suffering from dementia, after a change in the law gave care homes budgets to employ more care workers.
Unemployment in Germany will not break through the five million barrier even during an economic downturn, according to experts quoted in German newspapers on Saturday.
The German governmentâs top economic advisor said on Friday that there was little danger Germany would fall into recession even though the worldâs third-largest economy shrank during the second quarter.
Deutsche Post has announced plans to cooperate with supermarket discounter Aldi to increase the number of its âPackstationâ automated post offices.
Nokia will reimburse the German state of North Rhine-Wesphalia more than âŹ1.3 million ($2 million) to resolve a plant closure dispute that has cost the mobile phone giant tens of millions already, officials said Sunday.
Siemens appears to be backing away from huge job cuts in Germany announced earlier this month, according to a report in the <i>SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung</i>.
Engineering giant Siemens is planning another huge wave of layoffs in Germany with some 6,400 jobs to be cut, according to daily newspaper <i>Bild</i>.
German engineering conglomerate Siemens will try to avoid forced redundancies as it seeks to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs, chief executive Peter Löscher said on Thursday.
Nearly a fifth of new German fathers have applied for parental leave benefits allowing them to stay at home on two-thirds of their pay for a year, the Family Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Car manufacturer Porsche plans to generate 2100 new jobs over the next year at its factories in Germany, with the manufacture of its new Sport-Coupe <i>Panamera</i> model.
The number of unemployed in Germany fell by 110,000 to 3.5 million people in March as Europe's largest economy continued to create jobs, the Federal Labour Agency said on Tuesday.
Despite the strong euro, steady orders are fostering unexpected new growth in the German metal and electronics industries, according to the employerâs association <i>Gesamtmetall</i>.
