National industrial relations
Trending topics
- Skills
- Wages
- Collective agreement
- CSRD
- Global Framework Agreements
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Older workers
- Artificial intelligence
- Remote work regulations
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- hybrid work
- European Framework Agreement
- Gender equality
Poland: the social partners are working on a model of policies against moral harassment at work for businesses
The existing law (article 94.1 of the Labor Code) imposes that employers prevent moral harassment at work. However, legislation on the matter, quite recent, doesn’t give businesses the references...
6 June 2011
Germany: court cancels all agreements negotiated by the Union of Christian Unions in the temporary industry (CGZP)
A union definitely out of the game. The ruling issued last Monday by the Employment Tribunal of Berlin includes the arguments of the ruling issued last December by the BAG (see our dispatch No. ...
1 June 2011
Italy: 19th annual Istat report reveals Italy’s “weaknesses”
The “Italian system” seems “more vulnerable” than in the past because, to face the biggest crisis in 60 years, the Italian economy and society” have greatly eaten into their reserves.” However...
1 June 2011
Great Britain: Unite union launches survey on stress and mental troubles at work
70 million days lost. Workers' mental health is coming under increasing pressure as fears over jobs and cuts take their toll in the workplace, says Unite, the country's biggest union. Thus...
31 May 2011
Spain: U-turn in CEOE employers’ organization jeopardizes agreement on collective bargaining reform
The general secretaries of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) and UGT, respectively Ignacio Fernandez Toxo and Candido Mendez, formally received, on May 30th, the text brought to the table by the CEOE’s...
31 May 2011
Alstom: management and unions disagree on the assessment of the company’s economic situation
Management troubles. Since the announcement, on March 22nd, of another restructuring program in the transport unit (see our dispatch No. 110196), debates have resumed within Alstom’s EWC about...
31 May 2011
Italy: Eni signs two key agreements for its restructuring in Italy
The decline in global demand for oil products and competition from Asian countries have driven Eni Group to take action in order to “ensure the competitiveness of the system” and increase...
30 May 2011
Germany: not all employees are on the same boat as regards holiday bonuses
Extremely different holiday bonuses. As an introduction, the WSI indicates that a great majority of German employees receive a holiday bonus, but that they are only entitled to it if it was...
30 May 2011
South Africa: Walmart needs to give pledges of good practices to South African competition tribunal before taking over Massmart
Unions’ motivations. In November 2010, Walmart made a takeover bid on the Massmart African retailer. The latter runs 308 stores in 14 African countries such as Namibia, Tanzania, Ghana, Botswana...
26 May 2011
Great Britain: Royal Mail employees vote for strike in London
79% of the members of the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) voted in favor of the strike, the union announced on May 23rd. The reason is that three sorting centers and a delivery service are...
26 May 2011
Spain: Telefónica reveals plan to cut staffing by 25% in five years
When an Employee Reduction Program (ERE) is applied, the employees affected receive unemployment benefits, for the first two years, and then their social contributions are funded by the public...
26 May 2011
Germany: Verdi union torpedoes the social partners’ initiative to restore union unity in businesses with a law
Members’ rejection. The unexpected decision made by Verdi’s Federal Committee (Gewerkschaftsrat) puts a sharp end to the initiative carried out since last summer by the central employers and...
26 May 2011
International: unions accuse DHL of violating fundamental social rights
About 80 union representatives from the DHL, UPS, TNT, FedEx, DPD and Geopost companies from all over the world discussed, on Monday and Tuesday, the difficulties faced by the sector’s employees...
26 May 2011
Spain: unions announce that they got 750,000 signatures to request a popular legislative initiative against the labor market reform
Five months later, they announced that they got 750,000 signatures (500,000 gathered by CCOO and 250,000 by UGT), i.e. 250,000 more than the 500,000 required to carry their bill through and have...
26 May 2011
Denmark: industry is the first sector to get arbitration committee for equal pay disputes
For the 2010 collective agreements, the industry’ social partners agreed to make the LO and DA Confederations responsible for creating the Equal Pay Committee (ligelønsnævn, see our dispatch No. ...
26 May 2011
Allianz SE: the management and the EWC sign a European agreement against stress
First major European project. The agreement presented on May 5th has a double meaning for Allianz SE. On the one hand, it is the official recognition of growing problems caused by the...
25 May 2011
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