France: La Poste broadens equality agreement to include LGBT+ people National industrial relations French postal group La Poste, which employs 200,000 people in France, has signed a new professional equality agreement with four trade unions. Covering 2025–2027, it expands efforts to tackle discrimination and introduces new measures on women’s health as well as LGBT+ inclusion in parental support schemes.
France: banking group BPCE steps up efforts to promote professional equality with new agreement National industrial relations On 16 June 2025, the management of French banking group BPCE's holding company and five trade unions signed a new agreement on professional equality. It renews the group's ambition by introducing gender diversity targets for management positions where women are under-represented and by proposing measures to help employees achieve a better work-life balance.
France: Apicil bolsters diversity policy with new agreement National industrial relations French insurer Apicil (2,000 employees) signed a new four-year agreement on diversity and inclusion with the CFDT, CFE-CGC and UNSA trade unions on 18 February 2025. Through this agreement, the group reaffirmed its commitments on eight priority areas, which are designed to cover the 26 criteria for discrimination established by law, while raising its targets as part of a continuous improvement process, particularly in terms of gender equality and parenthood.
Réglementaire France: professional equality index set for complete overhaul National legislation Speaking in France’s National Assembly on 14 May, labour minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet set out plans for how the European directive on pay transparency will be transposed into domestic legislation.…
Exclusif France: agreement on professional equality to attract and retain staff signed at electricity network operator RTE National industrial relations On 2 April 2025, the management of French company RTE, which has 10,000 employees, and the CFDT, CFE-CGC and FO trade unions signed a fourth agreement on professional equality. It sets targets for increasing the proportion of women holding jobs at the company, introduces a referral bonus for hiring women and strengthens measures to support parents. With the workforce still largely male, these measures are important for the attractiveness of the publicly owned company, which needs to recruit heavily in the coming years.
SAP significantly waters down diversity programme Diversity In response to US President Donald Trump's executive order to abolish diversity policies, the German business software leader has announced that it is scrapping its target of 40% women in its workforce by 2030, among other measures. SAP is the first major German company to align itself so clearly with the new US policy. Opponents of this "counter-revolution" are fearful of a knock-on effect.
Réglementaire Netherlands: government launches transposition of pay transparency directive National legislation On 26 March, the Dutch government presented a bill transposing, among other things, the European directive on pay transparency.…
Exclusif mind RH analysis: Pay rises shrink at France’s large companies National industrial relations In France, compulsory annual salary negotiations are being disrupted by the growing number of redundancy plans. As inflation returns to normal levels, mind RH sought to ascertain the impact of the economic backdrop on the pay rises negotiated at major groups, according to sector. Between 2024 and 2025, both the amounts negotiated and the proportion of companies granting them have fallen sharply, even before Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs.
Germany: government programme of upcoming coalition gives prominence to labour matters National legislation On 9 April, at the end of four weeks of negotiations, Germany's conservative (CDU and CSU) and social democratic (SPD) parties presented a government programme that sets out the guidelines for their future coalition for the next four years. This 146-page text contains numerous measures concerning the world of work and the labour market. Here is a summary of the most important points.
France: gender equality index in companies remains high but is under threat Comp and Ben @en The French labour ministry has published the seventh annual professional equality index, which has been weakened by its complexity and the upcoming entry into force of the European directive on pay transparency. In 2024, the companies concerned scored 88.4 out of 100 despite a 14% pay gap between all women and men in full-time employment.
