All articles
Trending topics
- Global Framework Agreements
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Artificial intelligence
- Gender equality
- Skills
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- European Framework Agreement
- CSRD
- Remote work regulations
- hybrid work
- Older workers
- Wages
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Collective agreement
Bonduelle: a new EWC agreement
In a press statement published on 28 March, EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions announced a new EWC agreement for the French vegetable processing producer...
29 March 2017
News update as of 28 March 2017
On the menu: EU negotiator Barnier’s Brexit sets out conditions, Silicon Valley’s engineers tempted by unionization, the impact on the labor market of Greek Government’s discussions with...
- HR
- News
24 March 2017
France: collective agreement reached for umbrella companies
With the creation of a branch for umbrella companies in December, social partners were tasked with building a framework for the development of this form of employment – a halfway house between...
24 March 2017
France: Constitutional Council abandons provisions for the issuing of fines, under law on multinationals’ due diligence
On the evening of 23 March, France’s Constitutional Council ruled that the provisions for issuing fines, under the law on the due diligence of multinationals companies, are not compliant with the...
Argentina: salary agreement in retail sector
The retail sector trade union in Argentina has reached an annual salary agreement with the country’s government and employers’ chambers. By striking the deal, the largest trade union in the...
24 March 2017
Brazil: law adopted liberalizing sub-contracting
On 22 March legislation (Lei da terceirização) was adopted that opens recourse to sub-contracting to all business activities rather than as previously was the case just to activities unrelated to...
- HR
- News
23 March 2017
Finland: the president of the employers association seeks an end to collective agreements and looks to chop 10%-15% off salaries
The employers’ toughening stance is nothing new. At the end of spring 2016 employers (EK) announced that contrary to the general custom in place since the end of WWII they intended to suspend...
23 March 2017
News update as of March 22, 2017
On the menu: almost one million working on 'zero hour' contracts in Great Britain, draft law on disabled worker inclusion soon to be adopted in Chile, ans Japan's government is to collaborate with...
- HR
- News
21 March 2017
France: an EWC member remains a member until the end of the mandate even if s/he switches union affiliation
French EWC representatives are often designated by their national trade union among elected officials in the national bodies. In a first, the courts have recognized a 'European Mandate' when a...
- HR
- News
21 March 2017
Argentina: Mauricio Macri’s government to face its first general strike
Reunited in August 2016, following several years of schism that resulted in three union bodies (c.f. article No. 9796), and against a backdrop of morose economic conditions, the central CGT union...
21 March 2017
The ILO revises its Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises
Although International organizations don’t compete in the human rights arena, the ILO was lagging somewhat behind others, even in terms of its trademark interest of promoting decent work. This...
United Kingdom: 1.3 million workers have one foot in the gig economy, says CIPD study
According to a new study conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), 4% of the British working population work in the gig economy, essentially to top up their...
20 March 2017
Italy: government scraps work ‘vouchers’ to avoid referendum on labour market reforms
On Friday 17 March, Italy’s Council of Ministers approved a law which will scrap so-called ‘vouchers’ for temporary work. These vouchers, issued as payment for ad hoc work, are used widely and...
- HR
- News
20 March 2017
EU: the European Trade Union Confederation confirms its position over the need for an improvement of the EU Directive on European Works Councils
On 16 March, the European Trade Union organisation’s executive committee confirmed its position over the improvement EU Directive 2009/38 on European Works Councils, one which places particular...
17 March 2017
Germany: steel sector set for 4% wage increase
The 72,000 steel sector workers based in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen will soon enjoy a wage increase. In the early hours of the morning on 17 March, at the end of a final...
17 March 2017
Norway: new salary agreement to boost low wages but casts doubt over local negotiations in several sectors
On 14 March, a salary agreement was reached by the two Norwegian confederations – the LO (the Confederation of Trade Unions) and the NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise). The agreement sets...
17 March 2017
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
Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
2
Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
3
France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
4
Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
5
France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
6
Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026