Tribune de Genève. According to Tribune de Genève 20,000 pensioners were contacted and asked to prove they are still alive. 16,700 in Switzerland and 3,300 abroad. Some of those who received the letters are furious. One recipient said that many of her retired friends found the letters humiliating. The requests were sent to former employees […]
Archives for 2015
THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS IN COACHING (4): Dealing with a poor individual performer
Sponsored by Centre for Coaching (Switzerland) Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this fourth interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “Dealing with a poor individual performer”. In this example of exceptionally powerful coaching, Janine explores the case of dealing with poor individual performance and where it stems from. […]
Strict Swiss drink drive laws to be loosened
20 Minutes. Since 1 January 2014, driving a heavy vehicle after drinking any amount of alcohol is prohibited. Heavy vehicles include fire engines and many farm vehicles. In particular this strict rule has made life difficult for farmers and volunteer fire brigades, which form a large part of Swiss fire services. Sometimes these people need […]
CERN experiment proves 1960s particle theory
Geneva. On 14 July 2015 CERN’s Large Hadron Collider discovered a class of particles known as pentaquarks. “The pentaquark is not just any new particle,” said LHCb spokesperson Guy Wilkinson. “It represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons, in a pattern that has never been observed before […]
Man arrested for charging phone on train
According to wired.co.uk a 45-year old man was recently arrested for charging his phone on a London train. The offence described as “abstracting electricity” in section 13 of the 1968 Theft Act1 carries a maximum sentence of 5 years. Furthermore, text next to the train plug states that it is to be used only by […]
Geneva’s new currency sparks hot debate
Tribune de Genève. An article in Tribune de Genève describes the high emotion surrounding the coming September launch of Geneva’s new currency called the “Léman”. More than 100 comments were submitted on tdg.ch and as many on the newspaper’s Facebook page. Comments such as “why not the drachma, it’s very trendy at the moment” were […]
Athens proposes tax amnesty on Swiss assets
24 Heures. According to Panagiotis Nikoloudis, the Greek minister in charge of fighting corruption, Greece is proposing a tax amnesty on assets in Switzerland and other countries outside Greece. Mr Panagiotis Nikoloudis was interviewed by the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. The move is designed to encourage the repatriation of money to Greece and will tax […]
Healthcare – Switzerland the most expensive after the USA
Tribune de Genève. This week the newspaper Tribune de Genève reported that according to an OECD report Switzerland’s healthcare costs have gone up faster than most industrialised countries. Health spending per capita is second only to the USA. In 2013 Switzerland’s health costs increased at twice the pace of the OECD average of 1%. In […]
New Swiss heat records
24 Heures. The heatwave (or canicule as it is known in French) that has hit much of Europe has shattered a number of heat records in Switzerland. No records show higher temperatures in Geneva, Nyon or Neuchatel than those measured on 7 July 2015. The previous record highs recorded in 1921 for these cities have […]
Secrets of Success in Coaching (3): How to develop leaders in the most effective way?
Sponsored by Centre for Coaching (Switzerland) Janine Everson, Director of the Centre for Coaching, explores in this third interview of a seven part series on The Secrets of Success in Coaching: “How to develop leaders in the most effective way?”. One of the biggest challenges facing leaders today is not what you learn, but how you bring […]
