Labour relations
Trending topics
- hybrid work
- CSRD
- Global Framework Agreements
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Gender equality
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Collective agreement
- Older workers
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Remote work regulations
- Artificial intelligence
- European Framework Agreement
- mind Exclusive
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Skills
Spain: details of the framework agreement on collective bargaining 2010-12
Here are the guidelines of the agreement the union and employers’ organizations signed on February 9 (see our dispatch No. 100120).
10 February 2010
Spain: employers and union organizations reach an agreement unfreezing collective bargaining for 2010-2012
1% increase in 2010. The agreement signed on February 8 by Gerardo Diaz Ferran for the CEOE employers’ organization, Ignacio Fernandez Toxo for Workers’ Commissions and Candido Mendez for UGT was...
9 February 2010
France: summary of the social partners’ work at cross-industry level
ations are still working on the social projects started in 2009. The key fieldworks of these negotiations, which are going to last until next spring, include employment, the modernization of...
8 February 2010
Germany: IG-Metall wants to bargain for collective agreements two months early
“The current state of talks (editor’s note: with employers) is advanced enough so we can quickly start early collective bargaining with employers” said Jorg Hoffmann, leader of the IG-Metall in...
8 February 2010
Spain: government presents draft labor market reform
After the controversy sparked off by the reform of the pension scheme and the government’s comings and goings around the issue of the possible extension of the duration of contributions (see our...
8 February 2010
Sweden: Sandvik’s new company agreement provides for 500 leaves, including about 100 for demotivated or low-skilled workers
egotiated in June 2009 is nearing its end, Sandvik, world equipment leader, negotiated with unions indirect means to have 500 collaborators leave. One of the planned measures is to encourage...
5 February 2010
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo signs group agreement on employment with exceptions to the CCN’s minimum rules
lo signed an agreement with banking unions on an employment program for the group. The Fisac-CGIL refused to sign the text which provides that, for four years, new employees’ wages will be...
4 February 2010
Germany: Verdi union demands better working conditions for banking employees during next round of collective bargaining
Tremendous mental pressure, Ver.di says. Convinced that the financial crisis was partly caused by worsening working conditions in banks (high pressure, race for marketing goals, stress, leaves...
3 February 2010
Slovenia: bill on minimum wage to take better account of increasing cost of living
The few weeks that preceded the adoption of the bill on January 21 and its transmission to the MPs on January 28 were characterized by a lot of controversy between the social partners and the...
3 February 2010
Luxembourg: social partners renew transport collective agreement
The agreement applies to all professional firms of merchandise transport by road, moving, courier, express mail and logistics. Thus, it covers around 10,000 employees. Open one year ago, the...
3 February 2010
International Paper: agreement establishing the EWC
This agreement, subject to British law, established a European Works Council where “central management will provide transnational information relating to its operations in the European Union (EU)...
3 February 2010
Belgium: agreement on working and wage conditions for workers that aren’t covered by a joint committee
Residual committee. In Belgium, employers and union organizations negotiate working and pay conditions within the framework of sectoral joint committees. Yet, CP 100, created in 1074, is a...
2 February 2010
Netherlands: new collective agreement in metalworking and electrotechnical engineering
n the heavy industry in the Netherlands will keep enjoying early retirement at 62 thanks to the new collective agreement signed on January 25 by the FME employers’ organization and the FNV...
1 February 2010
Belgium: workers march and question businesses’ notional interests
Tense social context. These past few weeks, announcements of mass layoffs poured in Belgium. Opel Antwerp is going to close, putting 2,600 jobs at risk. In Jupille, next to Liege, AB InBev unions...
1 February 2010
Germany: Federal Labor Court condemns booming low wages and thinks about removing “tariff unity” in businesses
The annual press conference of the Federal Labor Court was tainted with the economic crisis. Statistics and data Mrs. Schmidt presented on January 27 confirmed that.
1 February 2010
Italy: CGIL declares general strike for March 12
“The need to face the economic crisis and its impact on employment, the urgency to act at once to bring balance to the tax burden in favor of salaried workers and pensioners and amend the...
29 January 2010
- mind Exclusive
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Pay transparency
- Global Framework Agreements
- Covid-19 Vaccination
- European company
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Gender equality
- hybrid work
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Foreign workers
- Older workers
- European Framework Agreement
Our mind news
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
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: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
2
Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
3
Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
4
United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
5
Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025
6
Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025