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Inditex global agreement extended to due diligence and digitalisation
On 10 October, Inditex renewed its global agreement with UNI Global Union, covering 165,000 employees in 215 countries, and extended it to cover the digitalisation of retail and vigilance over...
24 October 2024
Bulgaria: minimum wage to rise by more than 15% from January 2025
On 20 October, acting labour and social policy minister Ivaylo Ivanov announced on the national television channel bTV that the minimum wage would be increased by 15.4% from next year. It will...
23 October 2024
Longer careers: a new state of affairs for companies
At a time when many countries are raising their retirement age, with reforms set to accelerate in 2025, the issue of employing older workers is becoming all the more pressing. How can it be...
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23 October 2024
Finland: bill seeks to withdraw work permits from foreigners after three months’ unemployment
On 17 September, the new right-wing coalition government submitted draft amendments to the Aliens Act to Parliament. It proposes withdrawing work permits from foreigners after three months of...
22 October 2024
Germany: bill presented to protect employees against AI and surveillance
On 16 October, Germany's labour and interior ministries set out the broad outline of a bill to protect employees' personal data in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) use in the workplace...
22 October 2024
Germany: four-day week experiment yields mixed results
On 18 October, the results of the study on the four-day week in Germany were presented by a team from the University of Münster. According to the data collected from the 41 companies involved...
21 October 2024
Netherlands: employees in arduous jobs will still be able to take early retirement
After weeks of strikes, the Dutch government and social partners reached an agreement on early retirement (RVU) on 18 November. This transitional scheme, which was due to end in...
21 October 2024
Romania: minimum wage to rise by 9.5% from January 2025
At a meeting of the National Tripartite Council on 16 October, the Romanian government and social partners agreed to increase the gross monthly minimum wage by 9.5% from 1 January 2025. The...
18 October 2024
Italy: bill to make labour market ‘more flexible’ passes first reading in parliament
After a lengthy parliamentary process, Giorgia Meloni government's labour bill – originally conceived as an appendix to the 2023 budget – was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies on 9 October...
18 October 2024
France: occupational sectors forced to adapt to transitions
The latest statistics available on all France's occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), which mind RH has analysed for the third time, show persistent disparities in terms of pay, gender...
17 October 2024
Spain: new collective agreement for chemical industry strengthens protection for LGBTI employees
After 10 months of negotiations, the Spanish chemical industry employers’ federation (Feique) and the CCOO trade union signed a preliminary deal for the 21st general agreement for the...
17 October 2024
Lidl and Kaufland unions unite in push for global agreement
The trade unions of the Lidl and Kaufland retail chains based in Europe and the United States are joining forces to push for a global agreement between the parent company, the German multinational...
16 October 2024
France: Cegid offers a four-day week to employees aged 61 and over
From 11 October, employees of the software company aged 61 and over can request that their 35-hour working week be spread over four days – eight hours and 45 minutes a day. To this is added...
16 October 2024
EU: platform work directive definitively adopted
On 14 October, the Council of the EU approved the platform work directive presented by the European Commission at the end of 2021. After several blocks on the directive, notably by France and...
15 October 2024
Romania: days off work to be granted for medical screening
On 14 October, the Romanian senate adopted a bill aimed at promoting the early detection of illnesses such as diabetes, certain cancers and cardiovascular disease. The bill proposes the...
15 October 2024
United Kingdom: employers now required to prevent sexual harassment
The Worker Protection Act, passed by the UK parliament last year, comes into force on 26 October. To this end, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has updated its recommendations to...
14 October 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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United Kingdom: government “names and shames” companies that fail to pay the minimum wage
The news. On September 3, the UK government published a list of employers penalised for failing to comply with the National Minimum Wage. Nearly 660 companies were named, including fast-food chain...
4 September 2026