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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
United Kingdom: union fails in bid for recognition at Amazon
The GMB union failed to secure a sufficient number of votes to officially represent staff at Amazon’s Coventry warehouses, which would have forced the American online retail giant to...
19 July 2024
Luxembourg: €500 bonus for banking sector employees in 2025
After six months of difficult negotiations, the Luxembourg Bankers’ Association (ABBL) and the Aleba, LCGB and OGBL trade unions announced on 11 July that they had reached an agreement on...
15 July 2024
France: Engie Energie Services trials four-day week
On 24 June, the management of the French energy group's services subsidiary and the CFE-CGC, CGT and FO trade unions signed an agreement governing a four-day working week trial for operational...
15 July 2024
Italy: new collective agreement for tourism industry includes progress on gender equality and quality of life at work
On 5 July, the social partners in Italy's tourism industry renewed the national collective agreement. The agreement, which covers some 290,000 hotel workers (rising to more than 400,000 during the...
12 July 2024
Spain: stumbling blocks in negotiations over 37.5-hour week
The government is offering greater flexibility in the distribution of working hours in a bid to convince employers to accept the transition to a 37.5-hour week, instead of the current 40 hours...
10 July 2024
France: Monoprix signs an agreement on night work during the Olympic Games
On 17 June 2024, Monoprix along with two trade union bodies, CFDT and CFE-CGC reached an agreement on night work during the Olympic Games (the CGT union did not sign). The agreement will run for 9...
5 July 2024
Germany: ground-breaking collective agreement and 6.85% salary increase for the chemical sector
On 27 June 2024 Germany’s chemical sector social partners: the IG BCE trade union and the BAVC employers’ body, signed a new collective agreement spanning 20 months until February...
4 July 2024
France: Barilla trials support service for employees providing care
On 15 May, the management of Barilla France (1,300 employees) and the trade unions – CFDT, CFE-CGC and CGT – signed a new agreement on the "prevention of the risk of disability, the inclusion...
27 June 2024
France: Randstad group commits to stepping up recruitment of disabled employees
On 14 May, the Randstad France employment and temporary work group (15,000 employees) signed a new three-year agreement with its social partners (CFE-CGC, CFTC and CGT) on the employment of...
24 June 2024
France: Leroy Merlin launches major redundancy plan
Leroy Merlin (€9.93 billion turnover in France in 2023, +1.3% year on year) has announced a reduction of around 500 positions in France, i.e. around 1.8% of the group’s workforce. The...
18 June 2024
Germany: decline of codetermination continues, amid array of methods to circumvent practice (study)
The Institute for Codetermination and Corporate Governance (IMU), part of the Hans Böckler trade union foundation, has just published a study on the erosion of codetermination in Germany. In...
14 June 2024
Spain: social partners discuss raising limit on overtime
Why not put more work in when company circumstances require it? Perhaps, but not at any price. The social partners have opened talks to examine plans to raise the ceiling on authorised overtime in...
13 June 2024
Spain: agreement struck with social partners for equality at work for LGTBI people
Companies in Spain with more than 50 employees will have to draw up plans to support trans people in employment and implement anti-harassment protocols. They are also committed to organising...
7 June 2024
mind RH study – French large groups have not cut back on the frequency of teleworking since 2020
In recent months, the first generation of post-lockdown agreements on telework have come up for renegotiation. More than four years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, are companies...
6 June 2024
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit switch to a 37-hour week
At the end of May, Italy’s two largest banking groups, Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, reached an agreement with the FABI, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions to reduce...
5 June 2024
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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
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
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Oliver Dietrich (IG Metall): “The advent of AI can be a means of deepening social partnership within companies”
In Germany, trade unions want to influence how AI is deployed in companies. Oliver Dietrich is an AI project manager at the regional office of the IG Metall trade union in North Rhine-Westphalia...
21 January 2026
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Germany: collective bargaining negotiations begin in chemical industry
Collective bargaining talks in Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are due to open this week, covering nearly 580,000 employees across around 1,700 companies. With the sector facing...
3 February 2026
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Italy: collective agreement for rubber and plastics sector focuses on new skills
A month ahead of schedule, the Federazione Gomma Plastica employers' organisation and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec trade unions have renewed the collective agreement for the rubber and...
5 January 2026
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Italy: new generational renewal agreement penned at UniCredit
The agreement signed on 30 December by UniCredit, Italy’s second-largest banking group, with the Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions aims to continue generational...
15 January 2026
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France: social partner talks extend far beyond contractual terminations
After a false start on 3 December, French social partners resumed talks on 7 January 2026 on potential changes to the unemployment insurance agreement, including the rules governing compensation...
12 January 2026
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026