All articles
Trending topics
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Skills
- Artificial intelligence
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Collective agreement
- European Framework Agreement
- hybrid work
- Global Framework Agreements
- Wages
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Older workers
- Remote work regulations
- Gender equality
- CSRD
United States: UAW started gathering signatures to organize the Volkswagen plant
On Friday, March 23, Reuters announced that the United Auto Workers union (UAW) started, earlier this month, to ask employees from Volkswagen’s American plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) to sign a...
27 March 2012
Opel: the carmaker’s European employee representatives united against possible future site closures
Standing united. Wolfgang Nettelstroth, spokesman for the IG-Metall metalworkers’ union in North Rhine-Westphalia, told Planet Labor that all of Opel’s European employee representatives agreed on...
26 March 2012
Great Britain: age discrimination can be justified on cost grounds
Discrimination on the grounds of age can be justified on economic considerations. Nigel Woodcock, formerly chief executive at Cumbria Primary Care Trust, was made redundant in 2007 following an...
26 March 2012
Italy: details of the draft labor market reform adopted by the Council of Ministers
Types of contracts. While aiming to promote stable employment, the government maintains the flexible contracts it deems “necessary to effectively face economic change and restructurings.” ...
26 March 2012
France/Switzerland: method agreement to save jobs at the Basel-Mulhouse airport businesses threatened to leave after a court ruling imposing French mandatory provisions for contracts under the Swiss labor law
The stakes were high as the Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport is considered as the second largest employer in the region after Peugeot. Although they are located in France, businesses operating in the...
26 March 2012
Germany: Finance Ministry, employers and unions sign a pact against hidden labor in the textile industry
Fighting illegal labor together. In the pact’s foreword, Wolfgang Schäuble, German Minister of Finance, said that fighting against hidden and illegal labor was a “priority” for the federal...
26 March 2012
Great Britain: mobilization against the public sector pension reforms continues but cannot seem to find its gravity center
It was from amongst these unions that the 28 March date was identified as the next date for coordinated strike action. In the run up to the intended national strike, these unions carried out...
26 March 2012
Belgium: parental leave goes from 3 up to 4 months
Ministers adopted a draft royal decree planning to add one month to parental leave, in keeping with Directive 2010/18 which provides for four months’ parental leave. The draft also...
26 March 2012
Italy: mobilization against the reform of Article 18 is starting
Today, March 23, the 10th anniversary of the large demonstration the CGIL organized against the reform of Article 18, forcing the then Berlusconi administration to withdraw the bill, the Council...
23 March 2012
Sweden: negotiations in steel and metal are over
“Red” agreement. Agreements are given a defined color depending on the businesses they affect. The “red” agreement (röda avtal) is for private undertakings affiliated with the Stål och Metall...
23 March 2012
EU: Advocate General Mengozzi invites the ECJ to maintain jurisprudence on the time at which the obligation to consult arises in case of collective redundancies
Unclear jurisprudence. In this case, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales asked the ECJ clarify its jurisprudence on the time at which the obligation to consult workers’ representatives...
22 March 2012
Italy: Giorgio Squinzi, new President of the Confindustria employers’ organization
“My goal is to be everyone’s President” Giorgio Squinzi said at a press conference yesterday morning, March 22, after he was elected as the new President of the Confindustria employers’...
22 March 2012
Austria: spring collective bargaining schedule in the industry
The PRO-GE and GPA-djp unions released their schedule for the spring collective negotiations in manufacturing. They affect about 120,000 employees. As negotiations in the electrical and...
22 March 2012
EU: interviewe of Romuald Jagodzinski, ETUI researcher and coordinator of the 2012 Benchmarking Working Europe edition, the report of the European Trade Union Institute on the Europe 2020 strategy
Romuald Jagodzinski. First, the study shows that inequality is not only a matter of income inequality. Inequality is multidimensional. There are inequalities between generations, between specific...
- HR
- News
22 March 2012
Germany: Employment Minister wants to make it easier to combine work and retirement more flexible for people on early retirement
Additional income allowed. According to the German press, Ursula von der Leyen’s bill provides for more flexible conditions to combine work and retirement for people on early retirement...
22 March 2012
Austria: temporary work agencies angry at temporary work bill
Measures which could cost businesses a lot. The temporary work bill, currently at the center of heated debates in Austria, should serve to transpose the directive on equal treatment between...
21 March 2012
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
United Kingdom: government launches consultation on AI and data protection rules
L’info. Le gouvernement britannique a lancé, du 15 juillet au 9 septembre 2026, une consultation afin d’identifier les dispositifs juridiques, techniques et de gouvernance...
- HR
- CSR
- News brief
28 August 2026
2
EU: social partners set out position on guidelines for the sustainability due diligence directive
The news. Following the final adoption of the omnibus directive in February, the European Commission launched a consultation in June aimed at guiding it in drafting guidelines on the application...
- HR
- CSR
- News brief
28 August 2026
3
Import bans on forced labor products are multiplying
Under pressure from new US tariffs, many countries have presented texts in recent weeks to ban the import of products made with forced labor. A real breakthrough for workers' rights or a mere...
4
Germany: a “simplification” proposal for the Corporate Governance Code
In early August, the Government Commission presented proposals to reform the Deutscher Corporate Governance Kodex (DCGK), Germany’s Corporate Governance Code. The proposals are primarily aimed at...
5
France: EDF served formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations
The news. On 23 September, Greenpeace France announced that it had served EDF with a formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations due to the risks of harm...
- HR
- CSR
- News brief
24 September 2026
6
Slovakia: a bill to “clarify” personal data protection measures
The news. The Slovak government approved a bill on personal data protection on August 26, 2026. This text aims to clarify existing regulations regarding employees’ rights and...
- HR
- CSR
- News brief
7 September 2026