News
Trending topics
- Remote work regulations
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Global Framework Agreements
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Wages
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Skills
- Older workers
- hybrid work
- Collective agreement
- Gender equality
- European Framework Agreement
- Artificial intelligence
- CSRD
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
Portugal: interview of Manuel Bravo, secretary for collective bargaining at the CGTP’s metalworkers’ federation, Fiequimetal
Manuel Bravo. Indeed, the government recently resigned because of the austerity measures presented to the Portuguese population. This austerity program was first discussed with Angela Merkel and...
12 April 2011
Austria: Telekom Austria takes up internal and external interim
Last week, the President of Telekom Austria AG (TA AG), Walter Holtz, presented the new initiative of the former public monopoly, privatized in 1996 and listed on the stock market since 2000. ...
12 April 2011
EU: temporary social partners adopt work program 2011-2012
Competences. Regarding European labor market policies, the social partners want to work on a joint contribution to the Europe 2020 Strategy – the new European strategy for growth and employment. ...
12 April 2011
Spain: interview of Felipe Lopez, general secretary of the CCOO’s manufacturing federation
Felipe Lopez. The manufacturing union federation of the CCOO is the key manufacturing federation in Spain. It covers the iron and steel industrial, shipbuilding, defense, aerospace, information...
11 April 2011
Italy: banking unions present unitary platform for the renewal of the sector’s collective agreement
On April 7th, banking unions (Dircredito, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub, Ugl and Uilca) launched the unitary platform for the renewal of the sector’s CCN. They say they want to continue...
11 April 2011
Germany: Federal Labor Court makes appeal to fixed-term contracts more flexible
Three-year waiting period. In their coalition contract of October 2009, the conservatives and liberals announced their will to make fixed-term contract regulations more flexible (see our dispatch...
11 April 2011
Romania: government ready to engage liability on the reform of collective labor relations
Liability. The Boc administration has chosen the same scenario: as it did for the Labor Code, it intends to engage its responsibility for the draft Social Code supposed to regulate the...
11 April 2011
Spain: Correos signs collective agreement
On April 5th, unions and management signed the new agreement regulating, until 2013, the working conditions of over 60,000 employees in the postal company. The agreement includes the 3rd...
11 April 2011
Germany: Bundestag adopts bill transposing new EWC Directive
Criticism from the Confederation of German Trade Unions, independent experts and opposition parties at the lasts meeting of the Parliament Committee on Social Affairs last Wednesday were not...
8 April 2011
Areva: interview of Philippe Vivien, Group HR manager, about the European agreement on forecasting and anticipating employment and competences
Philippe Vivien. No, it doesn’t. It is our second negotiation around a theme that is complicated and polymorphous. Our first negotiation was on professional equality and it is true that this...
7 April 2011
Great Britain: new social conflict in engineering construction industry
At the beginning of March, a one-day strike took place at the BP Hull site on Humberside where a multi-million pound bio-ethanol fuel plant is being constructed. After lengthy discussions with...
7 April 2011
France: interview of Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the French metalworkers’ union federation, FTM-CGT
Philippe Martinez. The current economic and social crisis got us thinking about the need to quicken concrete collaboration on a certain number of determined issues, including manufacturing issues...
7 April 2011
Spain: lower social contributions for businesses presenting “mobility and road safety programs” for their employees
Reduced contributions for good practices. The agreement was signed by the Minister of Home Affairs, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, in charge of road safety, and the Minister of Labor, Valeriano Gomez...
7 April 2011
Italy: broken negotiations on the national insurance collective agreement cause several mobilizations
“Strong and clear” employee support to unions’ platform: this is how Giuseppe Gallo, Fiba Cisl general secretary, qualified the national strike of March 28th with a 90% turnout. The strike...
6 April 2011
Italy: interview of Maurizio Landini, Fiom-CGIL general secretary
Maurizio Landini. The crisis we are going through is more severe than in other parts of Europe. Youth unemployment amounts to nearly 30% and precariousness has reached unprecedented peaks in...
6 April 2011
Germany: new improvements of the apprenticeship market “thanks” to the decline in birth rate
Better professional prospects for young people. As an introduction, Mrs. Schavan reminded that there was a close relation between businesses’ economic health and the situation on the...
6 April 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
Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
2
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
3
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
4
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
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