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Candice Guillot (Talan): “Our recruiters save just over 80 hours per year on administrative tasks thanks to AI”
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
France: employers face stricter requirements on preventing risks from high temperatures
On 1 June, the decree on the protection of workers against risks associated with high temperatures was published in France’s official journal. This text requires employers to implement...
2 June 2025
France: sustainable transport packages agreed at Allianz and SNCF
Insurance giant Allianz and railway operator SNCF have recently struck company agreements to provide sustainable transport packages for their employees in France. The scheme, approved in 2019...
Fabienne Arata (LinkedIn): ‘Three-quarters of recruiters are experiencing qualified skills shortages’
A few weeks after the AI summit in Paris, LinkedIn France Country Manager, Fabienne Arata, shared her analysis of labour market trends with mind RH . AI is emerging as both a real engine in...
EU: Commission presents its skills agenda
*As part of the presentation of the Clean Industrial Deal on 26 February, a legislative pact to fund green industry with €100 billion of investment, the European Commission announced a series...
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3 March 2025
How EDF plans to implement global CSR agreement
French energy company EDF reached a new global agreement on corporate social responsibility at the end of January, covering the period 2025-2030. Signed unanimously by the trade unions, it covers...
EU: MEPs call for just transition directive and stronger collective bargaining
On 28 January, MEPs in the European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee adopted a report on the protection of jobs and social rights during corporate restructuring. They...
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17 February 2025
mind RH news – Draft global CSR agreement submitted for signature at EDF
French energy company EDF and two global trade union federations have struck a draft agreement on social and environmental responsibility, which has been submitted to 16 trade union organisations...
16 January 2025
Italy: public fund worth €731 million to train employees for ecological and digital transitions
The decree issued by the Ministry of Labour on 5 December launched the third edition of the ‘new skills’ fund, which has been allocated over €730 million to fund in-company...
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13 December 2024
Hélène Valade (LVMH): “Training is essential to driving the environmental transition”
On 2 October, French luxury goods giant LVMH, which has 214,000 employees, announced its goal of training 100% of its workforce on environmental issues until 2026. The group has developed both...
7 November 2024
Lego links employee bonuses to carbon emission reductions
In a bid to reduce the environmental impact of its factories, offices, shops and supply chain, Danish toy giant Lego has decided to link part of its employees’ 2024 bonuses to the...
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17 September 2024
France: Schmidt’s HR department at heart of group’s green “strategic shift”
Schmidt Groupe, which specialises in the design of living spaces and was awarded the 'B Corp' label at the end of 2023, put sustainability at the heart of its strategy at the start of the year...
29 August 2024
Geopost commits to regulate subcontracting in a global agreement
On July 22, the La Poste group subsidiary signed an amendment to the social agreement that has bound it since 2017 with the global services union federation UNI Global Union. It brings a strong...
27 August 2024
France: Engie hands staff a €500 sustainable mobility package
Under an agreement signed on 29 March 2024, Engie SA is granting €500 a year to its employees so they can make regular use of bicycles (including electric and self-service) or carpooling...
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10 April 2024
EU: Commission to postpone the deadline for introducing directive on workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields
Following scientific analysis highlighting the negative effects that could have some prescriptions, too strict, of Directive 2004/40/EC regarding the protection against electromagnetic fields and...
30 October 2007
Italy: CGIL started talks on internal divisions after the referendum on the social protocol
The union's management accepted, on October 23, to launch a reflection on the results of the referendum on the social protocol which split the Cgil (see our article No. 070747). Some people...
26 October 2007
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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
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
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.
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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025