El Defensor del Pueblo, Ángel Gabilondo, ha asistido este viernes al acto conmemorativo del 199 Aniversario de la Policia Nacional, que ha sido presidido por el ministro del Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, en el complejo policial de Canillas.

A lo largo de la ceremonia, en la que también ha participado el director general de la Policía Nacional, Francisco Pardo Piqueras, se han entregado condecoraciones al mérito policial y se ha rendido homenaje a los agentes fallecidos en acto de servicio.

Asimismo, se ha presentado el logotipo del bicentenario de la Policía Nacional, que se cumple el año que viene, cuya celebración ha sido declarada como `acontecimiento de excepcional interés público´.

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Sexual orientation cannot be a reason to refuse to conclude a contract with a self-employed worker

The Directive on equal treatment in employment and occupation, which covers a wide range of occupational activities, establishes a general framework for combatting discrimination based, inter alia, on sexual orientation Between 2010 and 2017, a self-employed worker prepared audiovisual material, trailers and features for the promotional programmes of TP, a company that operates a nationwide public television channel in Poland. That collaboration was based on a series of contracts for specific work which that worker concluded with TP in the context of his independent economic activity.

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A term in a contract for the provision of legal services concluded between a lawyer and a consumer which sets the price on the basis of an hourly rate, without including any further details, does not satisfy the requirement of being drafted in plain intelligible language

The national court may restore the situation in which the consumer would have been in the absence of an unfair term, leaving the seller or supplier without any remuneration for the services provided

M.A., as a consumer, concluded five contracts for the provision of legal services for consideration with D.V., in her capacity as a lawyer. Each of those contracts provided that the fees were calculated on the basis of an hourly rate, fixed at €100 for each hour of consultation or of provision of legal services to M.A. D.V. provided legal services in 2018 and 2019 and issued bills for all the services provided in March 2019. When she did not receive all the fees claimed, D.V. brought an action before the Lithuanian court of first instance seeking an order that M.A. pay the sum of € 9 900 in respect of the legal services performed and € 194.30 in respect of the expenses incurred in the performance of the contracts. That court upheld D.V.’s application in part. The appeal brought by D.V. was dismissed by the appeal court. In 2020, D.V. brought an appeal on a point of law before the Supreme Court of Lithuania. (...)

Zum Jahresbeginn stehen in vielen Haushalten wieder die jährlichen Heizkostenabrechnungen an. Aufgrund der gestiegenen Heizpreise ist zu erwarten, dass die Nachzahlungen in diesem Jahr deutlich höher ausfallen als bisher. „Hier müssen Haushalte mit einem geringen Einkommen besonders aufpassen“, warnt die Bürgerbeauftragte des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, Samiah El Samadoni.

Nach den bisherigen Regelungen für Grundsicherungsleistungen (SGB II, SGB XII) wirkt eine Antragstellung nur auf den Monatsersten des Antragsmonats zurück. „Problematisch wird dies dann, wenn ein Haushalt allein aufgrund einer Heizkostenabrechnung nur für einen Monat hilfebedürftig wird, weil in diesem Monat das Einkommen für die Nachzahlung nicht ausreicht“, so die Bürgerbeauftragte.

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