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Finland brief update: Google is funding a cooperative set up by the journalists union to give journalists freelance status
Mediakunta cooperative, which according to the latest count employs more than 160 freelance journalists, has just received €50,000 from the Google Digital News Initiative, as funding support to...
25 January 2018
Poland: important labor law reforms expected for 2018
Despite the Labor Minister, Elzbieta Rafalska’s autumn 2017 declarations that “there will not be a revolution within the Labor Code’, the 2018 reforms will overhaul several important legal...
24 January 2018
Briefly: The European Commission has uploaded a guide and information on the new on personal data protection regulation
The European Commission had intended to provide the national governments and relevant authorities with a guide to ensure the homogeneous application of the regulation. The guide has just been...
24 January 2018
France and Germany seek to encourage apprenticeship mobility between both countries and intra-Europe
On 22 January 2018, Franco-German Day, at the French embassy in Berlin, the topic of apprenticeship mobility took center-stage with high-level ranking figures from both countries attending and...
24 January 2018
News update as of January 23, 2018
On the menu : an ILO Convention against violence at work in 2019, an agreement resolving a dispute between the international trade unions and a leading clothing brand has amounted to $2.3...
23 January 2018
Canada: with the 2017 labor law reform, Ontario has taken its first step on the road towards fairer workplaces
In May 2017, following two years of detailed examination of Ontario’s changing workplaces, both special advisers C. Michael Mitchell and John C. Murray that Labor Minister Kevin Flynn tasked with...
22 January 2018
Stora Enso: global framework agreement signed
On Friday 19 January, Stora Enso, the Finnish-Swedish company that specialises in renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wood and paper, signed a global framework agreement with three...
22 January 2018
France: government looks to foster mobility of apprentices in Europe
Reforming France’s apprenticeships framework is currently under discussion among social partners, but the government believes the issue needs to be tackled not only on a national level but at the...
19 January 2018
Japan: older workers allowed to accumulate jobs
Job combining or accumulation has been prohibited for a longtime at Japan’s companies and their internal regulations have stated as much. However the Minister for Health Employment and Social...
19 January 2018
France: the automaker PSA becomes the first company to harness new permission to mutually terminate contracts through collective agreement
A majority of unions ( five out of six) at the French car manufacturer signed today (January 19) the agreements to make use of two new measures introduced as part of France’s new labour reform –...
18 January 2018
Spain: social partners prepare to renew the salary framework agreement
Employers and unions are getting set for the upcoming salary framework agreement negotiations due to start on 25 January that will serve as a guide for collective negotiations overall. This...
18 January 2018
India: how are the labor law reforms progressing?
Labor law reforms initiated by India’s government in 2014 are set to continue during 2018. The ultimate goal is to regroup 44 laws into four major codes namely, salaries, industrial relations...
18 January 2018
News update as of January 17, 2018
On the menu : paternity leave rises to 4 days in Italy, a new collective agreement at Swisscom focusing on employability and conciliation, A High Council for social dialogue is put in place in...
17 January 2018
Germany: towards a new law on economic immigration
On 12 January 2018, in the preliminary agreement presented by the future government coalition both conservative (CDU/CSU) and social-democrat (SPD) members (c.f. article No. 10520) announced their...
16 January 2018
Sweden: a new action plan for gender pay equality
‘Halva Makten, hela lönen’, (half the power all the pay). This is the message, power and influence maybe being shared but salaries should also be equal.. Thus the crux of the message declared on...
16 January 2018
Turkey: some of the legal changes from 2017
In this article we compile a number of articles on labour law changes which have been reproduced here, with kind permission from the law firm Gün +Partners website. The changes relate to the...
16 January 2018
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.
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United Kingdom: government urged to legislate against forced labour
After consulting victims, businesses and NGOs, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) has published a report showing that the UK is lagging behind in the fight against forced labour. The...
13 January 2026
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EU: European Parliament calls for a directive on just transition
On 20 January, MEPs approved, with 420 votes in favour, an own-initiative report calling for a just transition directive. The text calls for the protection of workers to be guaranteed in the...
20 January 2026