News
Trending topics
- Older workers
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- mind Exclusive
- Skills
- Collective agreement
- Remote work regulations
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Gender equality
- Artificial intelligence
- Global Framework Agreements
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- hybrid work
- European Framework Agreement
- CSRD
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
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
Great Britain: end of the consultation on the transposition of the new EWC directive
Scope. The consultation document notes that the 1999 Regulations will continue to apply but with amendments. Besides, it excludes some agreements from the scope of the new directive: pre-existing...
8 February 2010
Italy: a job as prize in a supermarket contest
The Tigros supermarket chain (Lombardy) set the example with the first contest of this kind in three provinces (Varese, Verbania and Novara) in September 2009. For one month, it brought into play...
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
Netherlands: Parliament criticizes plan to limit severance pay for high wages
This is an unusual situation: on February 3, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA, in power), rejected, in Parliament, a reform presented by one of its own Ministers, Piet Hein Donner. The Labor...
5 February 2010
Estonia: applying European law will force employers to better pay third-country employees
In Estonia, citizens from the European Union (EU) and Switzerland don’t need a work permit to perform paid employment. All they have to do is declare their place of residence within three months...
5 February 2010
Chile: new public agency to validate workers’ professional skills
The new public human resources agency, called “Chile Valora,” will examine Chilean workers’ skill level and give them certificates matching their professional category. The goal is to certify...
5 February 2010
Germany: works councils will be elected from March 1 to May 31
Elections in every company with 5 or more employees. A works council may be elected in every establishment employing 5 or more workers, provided that the latter want it. If no worker takes the...
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
EU: evolution of the employment market in telecoms by 2020
Major profit in a sector that employs less. In the introduction, the report notes that, in 2005, the sector’s added value amounted to €190.3 billion, €136 from the “big five,” i.e. the UK...
3 February 2010
Great Britain: flexible work for all from the first day on the job?
Extended rights. Current flexible working rights (flexible hours, work from home) are only available to parents of children under 16 and people taking care of dependent relatives, after at least...
3 February 2010
Italy: unions confirm strike on February 3 after Fiat met with unions and government
The meeting between Fiat, the government and unions, held at the headquarters of the Department for Economic Development on Friday, January 29, didn’t reassure unions, mobilized since the...
2 February 2010
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
Catherine Chavanier (CDC Habitat): “Social dialogue on AI facilitates its deployment”
In February, CDC Habitat (10,500 employees) signed a two-year framework agreement governing social dialogue on AI. Catherine Chavanier, HR Director of the subsidiary of CDC (Caisse des dépôts et...
20 March 2026
2
Greece: hospitality sector signs first collective agreement aligned with National Social Pact
The hospitality sector (125,000 employees), one of Greece’s largest industries after retail, signed a new two-year collective agreement on 17 March. The text, effective from 1 April 2026...
19 March 2026
3
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
4
France: Club Med includes “multiculturalism” in its professional equality agreement
In December 2025, Club Med and the CFTC, Unsa, and FO trade unions signed an agreement on professional equality and working conditions. It introduces measures addressing AI, pay transparency, and...
23 March 2026
5
France: bioMérieux’s new disability agreement pivots towards mental health
The news. On 6 January 2026, bioMérieux—an in vitro diagnostics specialist employing 4,400 people in France—signed a new four-year agreement “relating to the employment...
4 March 2026
6
Germany: a wave of redundancy plans in the automotive sector
The latest financial results presented in early 2026 by major German car manufacturers show sharp declines. This collapse in profits has triggered the announcement or confirmation of massive job...
16 March 2026