All articles

Today, December 13, the European Commission released a communication on a quality framework for anticipation of Change and Restructuring (QFR). This is the long-awaited answer to the Parliament’s...

13 December 2013

Great Britain: key labor law changes in 2014

For flexibility for employers when a company is sold or the possibility for employees to request flexible working… Planet Labor is presenting labor law measures that will come to force in the UK...

13 December 2013

EU: refusal to award employees who contract a civil union with a same-sex person a conventional advantage awarded to those who get married can be discriminatory

In a decree rendered on December 12, the European Court of Justice declared that the provision of a collective agreement excluding same-sex partners who have entered into a civil union from the...

13 December 2013

Italy: Alenia Aermacchi strikes deal with unions on new hours system in aviation industry

On November 14, Alenia Aermacchi signed, with the Fim, Fiom and Uilm unions and the employee representatives of its Grottaglie undertaking (Taranto), an agreement on the organization of labor that...

13 December 2013

Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway and social partners sign agreement preventing social dumping

On December 10, Metroselskabet signed a partnership agreement with union and employers’ organizations to improve joint actions against social dumping, to that the sites comply with the country’s...

12 December 2013

Germany: the number of apprenticeship contracts reaches another record level in the chemical industry

On December 11, the IG BCE union and the sector’s employers’ organization, BAVC, gave a unanimously positive report of their collective agreement on apprenticeship, signed in 2003 and renewed...

12 December 2013

Great Britain: businesses fined €6.5 million for failing to comply with safety rules

Since last year, businesses that fail to comply with safety rules have to pay the Health and Safety Executive’s inspection fees. The first bill is quite long and proves that employees don’t work...

12 December 2013

EU: Parliament and Council reach agreement preserving supplementary pension rights for migrant workers

The European Parliament and Council of Ministers agreed on regulations allowing European workers settling in another EU country to preserve their occupational pension rights. The new law aims to...

11 December 2013

Italy: flexibility is the key theme of the textile industry’s renewed national collective agreement

After “long and difficult negotiations” that lasted more than 8 months, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil for unions and SMI (Sistema Moda Italia) for employers reached, on December 5, an...

11 December 2013

Germany: Federal Labor Court rules agency workers aren’t systematically entitled to a employment contract, even if they perform an assignment that isn’t “temporary”

In a long-awaited decree rendered on December 10, the Federal Labor Court (BAG) gave satisfaction to an employer who refused to recruit a temporary worker assigned to the company for several...

11 December 2013

Brazil: union front validates 7.5 percent wage increase in the chemical industry

On Thursday, the CUT and Força syndical unions both approved the renewal of the 2013/14 collective labor agreement for the chemical sector in São Paulo State, covering nearly 280,000 workers. ...

11 December 2013

Slovakia: new rules extending application of higher-level collective agreements

A controversial amendment to the collective bargaining act overcame the President’s veto and is going into force on January 1, 2014. The law will now provide for the possibility for a...

10 December 2013

EU: interview of Dominique Campogrande, Director of Social Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), on social dumping

Following the agreement reached by the Council of EU Ministers on posted workers, Dominique Campogrande, Director of Social Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), is...

10 December 2013

Great Britain: groundbreaking deal in working conditions and job security at the now privatised postal operator, Royal Mail

The now privatised Royal Mail has agreed in principle a ground-breaking new agreement on terms and conditions of employment with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) for the company’s 139,000...

10 December 2013

Belgium: draft social agreement on the restructuring of ArcelorMittal’s Liege sites

After one week of bitter debates, the management of ArcelorMittal and workers’ representatives, assisted by the Region of Wallonia, reached a “draft social agreement in principle” that maintains...

10 December 2013

EU: snatched compromise on the charged issue of “posted workers”

After a last battle on the proposal concerning the implementation of the posted workers directive (96/71/EC), the 28 Ministers of Labor managed to break the deadlock, during their meeting on...

10 December 2013

1…415 416417418 419…885

Our mind news

See all

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

France: Crédit Agricole to tighten remote work rules

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

France: Orange submits gender equality agreement – including AI provisions – for union approval

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

mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators

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.

In the category

What readers clicked on the most last month.

France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill

After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...

10 September 2026

Germany: IG Metall demands 5% pay rise amid severe pressure

Despite the crisis hitting the automotive industry, the leadership of the German trade union IG Metall announced on Wednesday 23 September that it would be asking for a 5% pay increase as well as...

23 September 2026

Italy: Crédit Agricole introduces a handbook on managerial behaviour

The document adopted in mid-July by Crédit Agricole Italia and the main banking trade unions goes beyond the proper use of meetings and emails. This six-point handbook aims to foster constructive...

3 September 2026

Slovakia: 6% increase in the minimum wage from 1 January 2027

The news. As Slovakia’s social partners failed to reach an agreement during tripartite negotiations, Labour Minister Erik Tomas has decided to increase the minimum wage by 6% from 1 January...

1 September 2026

Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency

The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...

8 September 2026

EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement

The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...

17 September 2026