News

On 08 March the UK Chancellor presented the ‘last ever’ spring budget in which new support of £500 million (€577 million) was earmarked for technical education ahead of what could be expected to...

8 March 2017

PSA Group: renewal of its global CSR agreement

On 07 March the French carmaker together with the union federations IndustriAll Global and industriAll European Trade Union signed a new global CSR agreement and with it the PSA Group has crossed...

6 March 2017

Japan: companies focus on Premium Friday

Encouraging employees to leave work early at around 15.00 hrs on the last Friday of every month, leaving them time to go shopping or travel, is the goal of the Government led ‘Premium Friday’...

6 March 2017

EU: European Parliament Employment Committee considers revising the EU Directive on Posting of Workers

A divisive topic open to every sort of populist message, and yet also a fundamental text for this EU term, which is likely to constitute ‘the foundations for a Social Europe’. Thus is how...

6 March 2017

Prosegur: Uni Global Union turns to investors to draw their attention to what it claims are human rights violations by the Spanish security firm

On Wednesday 01 March the global union federation Uni Global Union organized an investors meeting to draw attention to human rights violations that according to Uni Global that the Spanish...

6 March 2017

Slovakia: automobile unions drive for higher salaries

Unions operating within the sector’s symbolic automakers, Kia Motors Slovakia, Volkswagen Slovakia, and PSA, have started 2017 with strong wage rise demands. This year they are calling for...

6 March 2017

Italy: new norms against call center offshoring

Measures sanctioning call center offshoring as intended by the 2017 Finance Law have just come into force. With strong backing from the trade unions, the new measures both impose constraints on...

6 March 2017

China: FAW-Volkswagen temp workers protest against unequal treatment

According to German correspondents and information from the China Labour Bulletin (CLB), a Hong Kong-based NGO, there has been a rare series of protests at the automobile manufacturer...

3 March 2017

United Kingdom: companies form the key stone of the government’s new digital strategy

More than 4 million UK citizens will receive free digital training over the next few years. This is the promise UK prime minister Theresa May has made, as part of plans to build for the country’s...

3 March 2017

Germany: agreement in textile sector for 4.4% wage raise

On Wednesday 1 March, social partners from the textile sector struck an agreement on a wage raise. The agreement provides for a 4.4% increase in total and it will affect 100,000 employees in the...

3 March 2017

EU: European union federations start setting out the changes they want seen effected in the EU Directive on EWCs

On 31 January the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT), the European Public Services Union...

2 March 2017

How Carrefour implements its diversity policy in Argentina

Within a legal context that strange to the topic of Corporate Social Responsiblity and diversity, the French distributer applies its group-wide defined norms and has established a set of measures...

2 March 2017

EU: five scenarios for a Europe of tomorrow

The European Commission is placing the Member States face to face with their responsibilities. On 01 March the European Commission presented a white paper that lays out five scenarios for the...

2 March 2017

News update as of 1 March 2017

On the menu: Chinese industry salaries are catching up on their Greek and Portuguese counterparts, Finnish trade unions develop initiatives in response to the gig economy, Uber’s sexual harassment...

28 February 2017

Great Britain: companies urged to raise employee ethnic diversity

In a shock report commissioned by the UK government and published on 28 February it was revealed that treating black and minority ethnic (BME) employees in the same way as other employees could...

28 February 2017

Spain: souring relations between employers’ bodies and unions over the national framework agreement negotiations on salaries and collective bargaining

Since the end of 2016, discussions between the social partners on a framework for salary recommendations, which should have come into force on 01 January 2017, and which should allow businesses to...

28 February 2017

1…175 176177178 179…715

Our mind news

See all

France: Crédit Agricole to tighten remote work rules

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

France: Orange submits gender equality agreement – including AI provisions – for union approval

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

mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators

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 (Talan): “Our recruiters save just over 80 hours per year on administrative tasks thanks to AI”

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

Most viewed articles of the month on mind HR

What readers clicked on the most last month.

In the category

What readers clicked on the most last month.

United Kingdom: government urged to legislate against forced labour

After consulting victims, businesses and NGOs, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) has published a report showing that the UK is lagging behind in the fight against forced labour. The...

13 January 2026

EU: European Parliament calls for a directive on just transition

On 20 January, MEPs approved, with 420 votes in favour, an own-initiative report calling for a just transition directive. The text calls for the protection of workers to be guaranteed in the...

20 January 2026