Labour relations
Trending topics
- Artificial intelligence
- Remote work regulations
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Older workers
- European Framework Agreement
- Skills
- Gender equality
- CSRD
- mind Exclusive
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Global Framework Agreements
- Collective agreement
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- hybrid work
Germany: upcoming union scandal in the postal sector
The Der Spiegel Magazine proves that the GNBZ - the trade union for the new companies of the postal sector - was paid for by private competitors of the Deutsche Post. While the Ver.di union lodged...
20 March 2008
Alitalia: Italian unions judge Air France-KLM’s conditions to buy the Italian airline “intolerable”
On Tuesday, March 18, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, CEO of Air France-KLM, met with the nine unions of the sector (Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl, Sdl, Anpac, Up, Anpav and Avia) to get their...
19 March 2008
Gaz de France: management commitments on social guaranties after merger with Suez
During the meeting of Gaz de France's EWC on March 11 (see our articles No. 080204 and 080214), the management presented staff representatives its commitments in terms of social guaranties after...
18 March 2008
Panasonic: EWC agreement renewed
Staff representatives and representatives from Panasonic management signed, on February 8, 2008, an agreement to renew Panasonic European Congress – PEC – a European body of information and...
18 March 2008
Germany: government to develop employees’ participation in companies’ profits and capital in the context of record bonuses
In 2008, most German large businesses will pay their employees record bonuses. Faced with these examples and the slow increase in German people's purchasing power, the Grand Coalition announced...
18 March 2008
Italy: labour enters the electoral campaign
From Confindustria propositions on the program of the Arcobaleno left-wing party to the Democratic Party (PD), work is massively present in the election campaign for the parliamentary elections of...
17 March 2008
Italy: Cgil presents strategy to improve continuous training access
Characterized by a low schooling level, early departures from school, a low rate of adults' continuous training, Italy is very late concerning Lisbon's objectives in lifelong training. For that...
17 March 2008
Gaz de France: the fate of GDF and Suez’s EWCs after the merger
During the meeting of Gaz de France's EWC on March 11, 2008 (see our dispatch No. 080204), the management presented an outline of the future of the European staff representation bodies of the two...
17 March 2008
Sweden: LO prepares congress and wants more investment into training
The executive committee of the Swedish confederation of blue-collar workers, LO, prepared the course of the congress which is going to take place from May 31 to June 4, 2008. The starting point of...
17 March 2008
Germany: dispute on seniors’ part-time in the metal sector
The metalworkers' union IG Metall, which is fighting to keep the law on seniors' part time (Altersteilzeit), which is supposed to expire at the end of 2009, chose the tough way. Between March 10...
13 March 2008
Gaz de France: EWC says no to merger with Suez and takes cognizance of the social guaranties presented by the management
After the EWC meeting on March 11, 2008, the members adopted a negative opinion on the merger between GDF and Suez. The document, rounded up on March 12, presents economic arguments against this...
13 March 2008
Germany: a ruling which revives controversy on industry-wide minimum wage
Since Berlin's Administrative Court declared, on March 7, that the new minimum wage which came into effect on January 1, 2008 in postal services was "illegal", the controversy on this topic...
12 March 2008
Germany: wage agreement in the textile and clothing industry
After sixteen hours of negotiation, the metalworkers union IG Metall and the employers' organization of western Germany's textile and clothing industry signed, on March 11, 2008, a wage agreement...
12 March 2008
Germany: Deutsche Bahn and train drivers’ union GDL put a final stop to their conflict
We thought it would never happen. After eleven months of tough negotiations, punctuated with a series of strikes, the Deutsche Bahn and the train drivers' union GDL announced, on March 9, 2008...
10 March 2008
Italy: a study on Italian metalworkers’ working conditions
Almost 100.000 workers and employees from the metallurgy sector took part in the national study ordered by the Fiom. The results, recently published, show a "deep malaise" among Italian...
6 March 2008
Netherlands: study on minimum wage and the liberalization of the postal market
The Dutch government set a new date for the liberalization of the postal market : July 1, 2008, that is a seven-month postponement compared to the original date. It should receive, in March, a...
6 March 2008
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
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
4
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
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
France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
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