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The supermarket chain has ordered its cashiers to use makeup

Spanish supermarket chain, Mercadona, has told its cashiers that they have to apply eye-shadow, colour and glossy lipstick, ‘but not to excess’. Shelf stackers have been told they have to be close shaved and cannot show a beard of one or two days, ‘despite the look being in fashion’. The company says ‘You have to go to work clean shaven or in the case that you have a beard, it has to be well looked after’.

The company considers the makeup and shaving instructions part of the working uniform, and becomes the first in Spain to issue such orders. Piercings and tattoos are banned.

El Mundo reports that one cashier in Alcorcón, Madrid, who has never used makeup was thankful that her supervisor was prepared to give her some tips.

The company, led by Juan Roig, has been making ever greater demands on the workforce, and in 2010 productivity was up 5%, and as a result the staff saw a 3% bonus and 210 million in extra payments for meeting objectives. The company made a profit of 398 million € in 2010, up 47% on the previous year, and created 1,500 new fixed jobs over the year to take the total workforce to 63,500.
 

Source: Typically Spanish

With the strike seemingly going ahead this Thursday is it definite the airports will be affected? 

I think so, who knows for certain? 

 I'll let you know if my flight is cancelled as I'm booked on Easyjet to fly from Spain to the UK that day.

Source: Typically Spanish

 The cabinet has decided not to extend the measure which had cut the speed limit to 110km/h last March

Source: Express

THE DEPARTMENT of Health is proposing that the cost of cigarettes and other tobacco products be doubled to bring the price of tobacco in Spain into line with the UK and France. Presently Spain is one of the cheapest places to buy cigarettes in Europe, at about 4€ per packet. 

The Deputy Director General of Health Promotion and Epidemiology, Rosa Ramirez, made a statement on Tuesday at a conference marking World No Smoking Day emphasising that Spain continues to supply cheap tobacco products and also supplies other European countries.

REVIEW

Ramirez also said that Spain has made a request to other European health ministries to review the regulation of so-called ‘electronic cigarettes’ advertised as being ‘risk free’ with regard to health yet remaining outside any legal framework.

The benefits of the non-smoking laws brought in at the beginning of the year were expounded upon, noting that hospital admissions of children suffering with asthma as a result of passive smoking were already significantly reduced, with figures under preparation to be published “later this year.”

It was acknowledged that the decision to raise the price on tobacco products did not lie with the Ministry for Health alone but with the Ministry of Finance.

PRICE WAR

The President of the Committee on Health, Gaspar Llamazares, noted that tobacco companies are now immersed in a “price war” to overcome the effects of the smoking ban and wanted to put an end to the myth that the state “profits” from the tobacco trade: “The effects of smoking costs Spain around €17,000 million – more than double the amount recovered in taxation of tobacco,” he said.

According to Llamazares, much remains to be done on taxes and treatments to encourage smoking addicts to give up the habit.

The President of the National Committee for Smoking Prevention, Francisco Rodríguez Lozano, pointed out that the low price of tobacco has “great influence” on young people in Spain to start smoking aged as young as 13. For this reason, the Committee supports the price hike.


Source: RTN