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France: transfer of skills at the center of the ‘generation contract’ agreements negotiated at company levels
A campaign promise of candidate Hollande, the “generation contract” enforced by the national cross-industry agreement of October 19, 2012, has 3 objectives: permanent recruitment for young people;...
18 December 2013
BASF inaugurates the largest work-life balance center in Germany, a sign that German firms are taking to this theme
In early November, BASF, a pioneer company in the field of work-life balance, inaugurated “LuMit,” which is the biggest work-life balance management center in the country. This achievement, which...
5 December 2013
Interview of Denis Pennel, the author of, “Working for yourself: what future for labor at the time of the individualist revolution?”
Individuals’ yearning for fulfilling work matching their life choices implies that the social partners and politicians rethink the social contract, explains Denis Pennel, who wrote a book called...
24 October 2013
A quarter of the global workforce would welcome an expatriate assignment
“Mobilising Talent: The Global Mobility Challenge” is the first survey conducted by Ipsos and sponsored by BDO on the international mobile employees’ profile and views. Generous compensation does...
24 September 2013
Spain: recent trends in corporate volunteering
Corporate volunteering is not new. Traditionally, it has been conceived as a Corporate Social Responsibility practice. However, businesses are progressively integrating employee community...
22 July 2013
Renault: HR agencies for employee-customers
Renault made a small revolution at the end of 2011 in the HR organization of its engineering and service undertakings in the Paris area (16,900 employees). Employees and managers used to complain...
11 July 2013
Corporate practices: Mapfre’s talent management program uses international benchmarking to develop innovation
Since 1984, MAPFRE, the leading insurance company in Spain, has been steadily expanding its business at the worldwide scale. In response to this internationalization process, the company agreed to...
16 May 2013
Great Britain: more and more businesses provide their employees with vocational qualifications
The major high street retailer, the John Lewis Partnership, has announced plans to establish a ‘University of John Lewis’ as part of its expanding range of internal vocational qualifications for...
14 May 2013
Faurecia banks on career development for employees with key positions to ensure business success
The French automotive group Faurecia decided to implement the “supervisors and UAP managers program” in 2010, as part of its Excellence System. Unlike a program aimed at “high potentials”, the...
23 April 2013
Europe: serious games and mobile learning on the rise in vocational training
The latest survey of the Cegos Observatory on widespread vocational training practices in France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy, published on March 27, shows that e-learning is on increasing...
27 March 2013
Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena
The Spanish subsidiary of the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) is determined to identify promising recent graduates at the local level and to expand their skills and competencies for...
27 March 2013
Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices
Demographic ageing, production changes - harder to plan than they used to be - and quick technological change are forcing businesses to come up with new HR management and training policies. In...
19 November 2012
Great Britain: Morrisons launches university training for managers
While logistics are becoming increasingly complicated in retail trade, the Morrisons supermarket chain is offering its sales supervisors a degree in management and logistics. (Ref. 120636)
25 October 2012
Corporate practices: new agreement on “demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures” for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Project mostly initiated by the central WC. It took the social partners at Unilever Deutschland four years to reach an agreement on “Demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable...
13 September 2012
Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices
Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...
23 August 2012
Germany: German-style apprenticeship set out to conquer the world
The ‘dual system’ on the fringe of the Atlantic Ocean. In a workshop located one floor above the assembly hall of the American headquarters of the German chainsaw maker, Stihl, in Virginia Beach...
23 August 2012
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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
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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France: insurance sector becomes first to sign agreement on employment of older workers
On 25 June 2025, France Assureurs – the employers’ association for the insurance industry – and five representative trade unions signed the sector’s first three-year agreement aimed at promoting...
6 October 2025
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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