News
Trending topics
- EWC agreements and recast directive
- Gender equality
- Managing the fallout of Covid-19
- Global Framework Agreements
- hybrid work
- Collective agreement
- European Framework Agreement
- CSRD
- Artificial intelligence
- Gig workers and the regulation of platforms
- Corporate sustainability due diligence
- Older workers
- Wages
- Remote work regulations
- Skills
Netherlands: new union requirements on partial unemployment
Since April 1, businesses hit by the crisis can send their employees to partial unemployment, up to half their working time, for three months which can be renewed twice (see our dispatch No. ...
16 April 2009
Italy: two company agreements recoge the “biological damage” of partial unemployment
Two groundbreaking agreements were signed by the Fiom in Bologna with two businesses belonging to Zola Predosa: Verlicchi (250 employees), which manufactures bike structures for groups such as...
15 April 2009
France: Supreme Court defines the last base of operation of employees who worked in several Member States
In line with Regulation 44/2001 – which transposes into Community Law the Brussels Convention which notably determines the competent court in the event of international labor relations – employees...
15 April 2009
SNOP: establishment of a European works council
FSD, composed of SNOP SA, specialized in making metallic constituents for the car industry, and the SNOM toolmaker (nought in July 2008), has 2.403 employees in Europe. It is present in France...
15 April 2009
Romania: State contributions suspended while in partial unemployment
The number of unemployed people in Romania is booming and will soon hike 300,000, which will require 500 million lei (€120 million) surplus to the budget for indemnities and trainings, Labor...
14 April 2009
Italy: Fiat announces new partial unemployment weeks for white-collar workers
Although the market revival caused by the government’s subsidies, which allowed to cancel some CIG periods (see our dispatch No. 090292), and the agreement with Chrysler gave the group’s employees...
14 April 2009
Whikhahn: international framework agreement
With this agreement, the company, which only employs 600 people (400 at the headquarters in Germany), commits to respect the ILO’s international labor standards for all its employees. For the...
14 April 2009
Great Britain: employers look for alternatives to laying managers off
How do businesses adjust to the economic crisis? According to the 2009 survey carried out by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the CELRE (the salary survey specialist), employers tend...
14 April 2009
Suspension of the information thread for Easter
Planet Labor is suspending its information thread for Easter Monday and will be back with you on Tuesday 14.
10 April 2009
Hungary: subsidies to save jobs
Planet Labor, April 10, 2009, No. 090400 – www.planetlabor.com
10 April 2009
Argentina: State pays for the wages of almost 40.000 workers to stop dismissals
After an agreement signed in March between the Argentinean government and the French carmaker Peugeot-Citroen, one in three workers of the Tres de Febrero, close to Buenos Aires, receives 600...
8 April 2009
Hungary: individual employers and large businesses subject to the same strict liability for damages to their employees
Exception for individual employers. The invalidated provision established an exception from employer’s strict liability (i.e. no-fault liability) for damages caused to employees in connection with...
7 April 2009
Italy: Cisl launches initiatives to help jobseekers in Emilia-Romania
Improve social cohesion. Roberto Pezzani, regional secretary of the Cisl’s Public Service, and Pier Ragazzini, Cisl general regional secretary explained that, to overcome the major economic crisis...
6 April 2009
Finland: government revises CEOs’ bonuses and pensions in businesses partly owned by the State
New work group. Besides, recent cases showed that, in the absence of a specific system, heads of businesses enjoy contractual provisions that are extremely favorable in terms of pensions compared...
6 April 2009
EU: action against dismissal for pregnant women only may be contrary to Community Law
Facts. On January 25,
2007, a registered letter informed Mrs. Pontin, employed by T-Comalux in
Luxembourg, that she was being dismissed for gross misconduct after three days
of unjustified...
1 April 2009
Romania: retirement age increased to 65 for men and 63 for women
According to the government, these measures are necessary and mandatory given the high number of retirees and the decreasing number of active people. A recent demographic analysis carried out by...
30 March 2009
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
Import bans on forced labor products are multiplying
Under pressure from new US tariffs, many countries have presented texts in recent weeks to ban the import of products made with forced labor. A real breakthrough for workers' rights or a mere...
2
France: EDF served formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations
The news. On 23 September, Greenpeace France announced that it had served EDF with a formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations due to the risks of harm...
- HR
- CSR
- News brief
24 September 2026
3
Slovakia: a bill to “clarify” personal data protection measures
The news. The Slovak government approved a bill on personal data protection on August 26, 2026. This text aims to clarify existing regulations regarding employees’ rights and...
- HR
- CSR
- News brief
7 September 2026