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Corporate practices: SEUR, the transport company, cares for employee retention from the very start of the employment relationship
In 2005, SEUR, the leading company for urgent transport and integral logistics in Spain, conceived a "Welcome and Integration Plan" targeted at their new staff, as part of its talent...
20 March 2013
Ireland: parental leave goes from 14 up to 18 weeks
The Irish government has transposed the European directive on parental leave of 2010, thus adding one month to parental leave for all children under 8 years of age. The new regulations, signed on...
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20 March 2013
Italy: results of the first HRD survey on the impact of the labor market reform (Gi Group)
On March 18, the permanent observatory on the labor market reform, a private initiative by Gi Group, the temporary work and recruitment agency, released the results of its first survey on the...
20 March 2013
United States: pay deal for Boeing technical engineers
After professional engineers and tougher negotiations, Boeing technical engineers ratified a four-year labor deal. New hires will not be entitled to the company's existing pension scheme. (Ref...
20 March 2013
EU: European electricity social partners set training as their priority
Eurelectric for employers and the EPSU and IndustriALL unions met, on March 15 for a social dialogue committee during which they adopted a series of actions on training and competencies. The...
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19 March 2013
Slovenia: commentary of the new labour law reform
On 5 March 2013, the Slovene parliament permanently adopted the Employment Relationships Act ("Zakon o delovnih razmerjih" - ZDR-1) after long and rather demanding negotiations with the social...
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19 March 2013
Belgium: Ford Genk’s social plan gives subcontracting staff the same working conditions as direct employees
The management of the Genk plant was satisfied after 71.7% of the workers approved, on Friday night, the social plans signed by the trade unions last week. In the carmaker's subcontracting firms...
18 March 2013
Italy: Electrolux and unions sign agreement on strategy out of the crisis
On March 9, the social partners at Electrolux signed a unitary agreement suspending the staff cutting program the group had announced for 2013-2015 via solidarity contracts (working time cuts) and...
18 March 2013
Germany: businesses reduce apprenticeship places in spite of the growing shortage in skilled workers
According to the first draft of the "2013 Apprenticeship Report," in 2012, German businesses cut the number of apprenticeship places they offered. Indeed, last year, only 21.7% of companies...
18 March 2013
EU: austerity course maintained
Staying on track. In the debate opposing southern and northern Europe, the German view of austerity as the way to economic recovery is still a must. And this is confirmed in the conclusions of...
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18 March 2013
EU: new measures to stop the “unacceptable” levels of youth unemployment
Booming unemployment rate among young Europeans. “High youth unemployment has dramatic consequences for our economies, our societies and above all for young people. This is why we have to invest...
5 December 2012
Great Britain: activists urge government to activate “caste protection” in Equality Act as soon as possible
A group of activists, infuriated with the government’s action in terms of the fight against caste discrimination is urging it to activate article 9 (5)a of the Equality Act, improving protection...
5 December 2012
Mattel: China Labor Watch claims employees’ working conditions are getting worse at the toy manufacturer
“Investigators, who entered the factories as production workers or carried out interviews, revealed a long list of illegal and unfair labor treatment at (…)one directly-owned Mattel factory and...
5 December 2012
Indesit: EWC becomes global works council
Composition. This new international social dialogue structure will be made up of 21 employee representatives – 8 from Italy, 4 from the UK, 4 from Poland, 3 from
Russia, 1 from Turkey and 1 from...
4 December 2012
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Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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EU: right and far right join forces in parliament to dismantle sustainability due diligence
On 13 November, the European Parliament approved the report by EPP MEP Jörgen Warborn on the proposed omnibus directive, clearing the way for trilogue negotiations. Backed by the far right, the...
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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
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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Germany: EU pay transparency directive to force companies to ‘get tough’
Germany introduced a pay transparency law in 2017, meaning companies are already somewhat familiar with the issue. However, the broader scope and stricter requirements of the EU directive, the...
24 October 2025
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EU: omnibus bill stalls in parliament
On 22 October, members of the European Parliament narrowly voted against a negotiating mandate that would have opened trilogue talks on the omnibus directive, which seeks to dilute the corporate...
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23 October 2025
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France: cabinet adopts suspension of pension reform
On 23 October, the French Council of Ministers approved an amendment to the social security financing bill (PLFSS), confirming the suspension of the 2023 pension reform until 2028. This measure...
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24 October 2025