All articles
Trending topics
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Artificial intelligence
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Remote work regulations
- hybrid work
- mind Exclusive
- Skills
- Global Framework Agreements
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Older workers
- Gender equality
- Collective agreement
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- European Framework Agreement
- CSRD
Germany: debate over working time reform gains momentum
The coalition agreement signed by Germany's conservative CDU/CSU and social democratic SPD parties provides for the abolition of the eight-hour working day in favour of a maximum weekly working...
26 May 2025
Argentina: government restricts right to strike
A decree published on 21 May by the Argentine government classifies a range activities as essential. As a result, they will have to provide a 75% minimum service in the event of a strike. The CGT...
- HR
- News
26 May 2025
ArcelorMittal’s European Works Council protests company’s redundancy plan
The elected representatives of the European Works Council (EWC) of steel giant ArcelorMittal, which employs 48,500 people in Europe, gathered on 21 May in front of the company’s headquarters...
23 May 2025
Finland: Wolt platform food delivery couriers recognised as employees (ruling)
In a decision dated 22 May 2025, Finland’s supreme administrative court ruled that the relationship between the meal delivery platform Wolt and the delivery couriers working for it met the...
23 May 2025
Italy: collective agreement for gas and water sector launches new joint initiatives
On 8 May, employer and trade union organisations in Italy's gas and water sector penned a deal to renew the sector's collective agreement, which covers around 50,000 employees in nearly 600...
22 May 2025
mind RH study – Parental leave allowances still not compliant with EU directive in all member states
Six EU member states amended their legislation between July 2024 and March 2025 to encourage more parents, especially fathers, to take parental leave. To this end, Cyprus, Ireland and Italy have...
22 May 2025
EU: trilogue agreement struck on revision of European Works Council Directive
European co-legislators have reached an agreement on the proposal to revise the European Works Council Directive, which aims to strengthen workers' rights to consultation. The compromise text will...
21 May 2025
Italy: law allows workers to participate in company management and capital
The Italian law on worker participation, which was finally approved on 14 May, allows employee representatives to sit on company supervisory boards or boards of directors. It also establishes tax...
21 May 2025
EU: Emmanuel Macron takes aim at due diligence directive
After initially supporting it, the French president is now attacking the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and calling for its abolition, arguing that the proposed...
Dominique Laurent (Schneider Electric France): “The employment of older people is one of the most complex subjects to tackle”
As the French government embarks on a major campaign to promote the employment of older workers, Dominique Laurent, director of human resources for France at energy management equipment specialist...
20 May 2025
France: professional equality index set for complete overhaul
Speaking in France’s National Assembly on 14 May, labour minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet set out plans for how the European directive on pay transparency will be transposed into domestic...
19 May 2025
Italy: energy and oil sector creates new joint structures to manage transformations
On 16 April, the employers' organisation Confindustria Energia and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec trade unions signed an agreement renewing the national collective agreement for the...
19 May 2025
United Kingdom: employers air concerns over labour law reform
As the UK parliament continues to examine the proposed labour law reform, which aims to improve workers' rights, employers are calling on the government to refine certain measures, due to fears...
16 May 2025
EU: Parliament’s Employment Committee votes to make access to public procurement conditional on compliance with collective bargaining
On 13 May, MEPs in the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs overwhelmingly approved an opinion on a draft report on public procurement. Although the report, which...
16 May 2025
France: agreement on professional equality to attract and retain staff signed at electricity network operator RTE
On 2 April 2025, the management of French company RTE, which has 10,000 employees, and the CFDT, CFE-CGC and FO trade unions signed a fourth agreement on professional equality. It sets targets for...
15 May 2025
Germany: labour court hands down ruling on retention of stock option rights after resignation
The German Federal Labour Court (BAG) has decided that employees retain their rights to all options already exercised after resigning, in a ruling handed down on 19 March. Applicable retroactively...
15 May 2025
Our mind news
France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Most viewed articles of the month on mind HR
What readers clicked on the most last month.
What readers clicked on the most last month.
1
France: government submits draft on pay transparency
On 6 March, the French government sent social partners a draft bill to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive. The text provides details on the implementation timetable, corporate...
9 March 2026
2
Spain: report proposes democratising employee participation
On 2 February, Spanish labour minister Yolanda Diaz presented the conclusions of a report on democracy in the workplace. The document, which calls for employees to be given a say in...
25 February 2026
3
Italy: Deliveroo and Glovo targeted by justice over courier working conditions
The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered two of Italy's leading food delivery platforms, Foodinho (Glovo) and Deliveroo, to be placed under judicial administration. According to...
9 March 2026
4
Germany: menopause issues finally gain corporate recognition
With 12 million women over 40 in the labour force, German companies and occupational health professionals are beginning to adopt support policies for those affected by menopause-related issues...
19 March 2026
5
Valérie Decaux (La Poste): “Our older workers policy is based on individualisation to move beyond age-related-stigmatisation”
La Poste Group (nearly 200,000 employees in France) unveiled its first senior employment agreement in late February. The text outlines measures for early retirement assistance, workplace...
10 March 2026
6
Sweden: government delays transposition of Pay Transparency Directive
On 11 March, the Swedish government announced it is postponing the transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive. Having originally targeted an entry into force on 1 July 2026, it has conceded a...
16 March 2026