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German minister rejects minimum wage demands

German Labour Minister Andrea Nahles on Sunday dismissed demands from some of her coalition partners to change her plans for a minimum wage and grant more exceptions to the new rules. ...

German unemployment falls for third month as growth picks up

German unemployment fell for a third month in February, declining more than economists predicted. ...

A new front

Mei Yan brings her formidable journalistic nous to PR firm Brunswick’s China coverage, reports Melanie Holloway. ...

Pioneering the way

Business builder Axel Scholz helps Siemens break into Asia in financial services, writes Nicholas Olczak. ...

Consumers more confident, less worried about jobs

Nielsen survey shows US, Chinese and Japanese consumers more upbeat in Q2, while Indonesia remains the world’s most bullish consumer market and Portuguese is the most pessimistic ...

OECD sees record 12.3pc EU jobless rate in 2014

The eurozone’s record unemployment rate of 12.3pc by end-2014 expected to hit young people the hardest, with huge disparities between Germany and hard-up countries such as Spain and Greece, according to OECD forecast ...

Drive to succeed

Reinhold Carl, Audi’s Hong Kong boss, is a man with a mission, writes Nick Walker. ...

German DIY chain in trouble with 18,000 jobs at risk

Praktiker, the German home improvement store chain, is considering filing for insolvency after failing to find funds to keep its operations, with about 18,000 people in danger of losing jobs ...

EU kicks off jobs summit after budget compromise

EU leaders kicked off a two-day summit on Thursday tackling the jobs crisis hours after compromise between governments on the EU’s trillion-euro budget. ...

Germany backs Euro labour market to spur jobs

German labour minister will push measures to create a Europe-wide labour market that increase job mobility and tackle unemployment. ...