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Italy: fashion collective agreement aims to make the sector more attractive
Advances on work-life balance, enhanced training and industrial relations, a pay rise of €200 over three years: these are the main new features of the agreement to renew the collective agreement...
21 November 2024
France: agreement on ‘arduous’ work at Securitas boosts end-of-career measures
On 14 October, the management of the French subsidiary of Swedish security firm Securitas (16,700 employees) and the CFDT, FO, CGT and CFE-CGC trade unions signed a three-year agreement on arduous...
20 November 2024
France: surprise national cross-industry agreement on social dialogue struck
In addition to the agreement on the employment of older workers, negotiators from employers’ organisations and trade unions reached agreements on unemployment insurance and social dialogue...
18 November 2024
France: social partners reach agreement on the employment of older workers
The social partners have reached a national cross-industry agreement (ANI) to promote the employment of 'experienced' employees. The text, which was endorsed by the employers' negotiators (Medef...
15 November 2024
BNP Paribas strengthens social floor with a new global agreement
On 4 November, BNP Paribas and the global union federation UNI Global Union signed a new agreement that strengthens the social floor common to all the French banking group's 182,656 employees. The...
14 November 2024
Germany: 5.1% pay rise over 25 months in metalworking industry
After two months of negotiations and several hundred walkouts across Germany, the social partners in the metalworking industry in two pilot regions (the coastal regions and Bavaria) have agreed on...
13 November 2024
France: Michelin plans to close two plants
The Michelin Group today announced the closure of its Cholet and Vannes sites (1,254 employees), which have been facing major economic difficulties for several years as a result of the...
5 November 2024
Germany: 2025 to be a quieter year on the collective bargaining front
On 30 October, the Hans Böckler Trade Union Foundation’s Institute for Economic and Social Sciences (WSI) presented its timetable for the collective wage agreements to be negotiated by...
5 November 2024
Italy: UniCredit fosters staff retraining and generational renewal
A new plan to overhaul the Italian bank (32,381 employees), which has been approved by the unions, puts the emphasis on training: 600 employees will follow an innovative requalification programme...
30 October 2024
Germany: crisis at Volkswagen and warning strikes in metalworking industry
Germany's metalworking and automotive sectors are going through a difficult time, with a series of major developments occuring concurrently. We learned on Monday that the management at Volkwagen...
29 October 2024
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
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
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
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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: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026
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UK: duty for employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union postponed to 1 January 2027
The news. On 25 September, the British government published its response to a consultation launched on 23 October on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union. The...
1 October 2026