National industrial relations
Trending topics
- Global Framework Agreements
- hybrid work
- Artificial intelligence
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Older workers
- Skills
- CSRD
- Wages
- Collective agreement
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Gender equality
- European Framework Agreement
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Remote work regulations
Austria: 2.8-3% wage increase for insurance staff
After the banking industry, the insurance sector signed a collective pay deal on April 3. With a slight decrease in contributions in 2012, the sector’s 22,000 employees will get a 3% increase...
5 April 2013
Germany: controversy over the increase in activity rate for workers age 60+
According to the Federal Employment Agency,1.48 million people aged 60+ worked and paid social contributions in September 2012, 12.3% up from 2011. in the metal industry, the Gesamtmetall...
4 April 2013
Italy: SKF Group signs agreement replacing conventional wage increases with two bonuses linked with productivity and profitability
First agreement of this kind in italy, the separate agreement signed between the Swedish multinational and the Fim-Cisl and Fali-Fismic unions (the Fiom-CGIL and Uilm-Uil rejected it) introduces...
4 April 2013
Austria: 2.55% increase in the banking industry
The 80,000 banking employees in Austria got a 2.55% increase on April 1, i.e. barely more than the inflation level in 2012 (2.4%). This rather lean agreement was reached after particularly tense...
2 April 2013
Norway: ongoing mediation for 2013 bargaining stuck over extremely divergent positions
The NHO Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise and the LO union met to talk about pay deals for 2013. While they agree that employees' buying power should be maintained, their notions are slightly...
2 April 2013
Austria: agenda of spring collective negotiations in the industry
Most Austrian sectors traditionally negotiate their collective agreements in the spring, except the metal industry which bargains in the fall. 130,000 employees are concerned. Debates already...
2 April 2013
Safran: interview of Jean-Luc Bérard, Corporate Senior Vice President, HR, on the European agreement for professional integration of young people
On March 28, Safran and IndustriAll Europe signed a European framework agreement for professional integration of young people. Jean-Luc Bérard, Corporate Senior Vice President, HR, is telling...
31 March 2013
Germany: company agreement on demography for 15,000 employees at Continental’s Rubber Group
On March 18, Continental Group and the IG BCE chemistry union signed a company agreement for the 15,000 German employees of its tire division, Rubber Group. This agreement is the first of this...
28 March 2013
Finland: negotiations for a general pay agreement failed
The negotiations, which lasted for about 3 weeks between the representatives of the three major union federations (SAK, STTK and AKAVA) and employers (EK), in view of reaching a general agreement...
28 March 2013
Transnational bargaining: interview of Bart Samyn, deputy general secretary of IndustriAll Europe, on the European agreement for professional integration of young people signed with Safran
On March 28, Safran and IndustriAll Europe signed the first European agreement on the professional integration of young people. Bart Samyn, deputy general secretary of the European trade union...
28 March 2013
Spain: Telefónica guarantees employment for a year in exchange for wage moderation and savings on pensions
The agreement reached by the management and trade unions on March 27 provides for a 1% wage increase in 2014 and maintains jobs throughout the period. Employees are foregoing some of the company's...
28 March 2013
Safran: European framework agreement for professional integration of young people
Today, March 28, 2013, Safran Group and the IndustriAll Europe European trade union signed a European framework agreement on the professional integration of young people. With this agreement...
28 March 2013
Great Britain: government wants to encourage employee ownership in businesses
The British government wants to propose giving fiscal incentives to employers who give their employees a stake in the business in which they work. (Ref. 130207)
28 March 2013
Germany: IG-Metall management accepts ‘rescue’ agreement without Bochum plant
Unanimous agreement from the IG-Metall’s management. In North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bochum is located, the IG-Metall union has hardly ever seemed so deeply divided. Indeed, whereas the 3,300...
28 March 2013
Spain: Caixabank reaches agreement on social plan based on early retirement and voluntary leave
Caixabank unions and management have defined the modalities of the social plans providing for 2,600 leaves - all voluntary. All the representatives unions (CCOO, SECPB, UGT, SIB and CIC-FEC)...
27 March 2013
Germany: 6% increase over 2 years for train drivers
Four meetings and several warning strikes took place before the social partners in the rail industry reached an agreement, on Monday, March 25, for a 6% wage increase over two years. The agreement...
26 March 2013
Our mind news
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
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.
1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
5
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
6
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