Nadia Pralita and Maarten van Klaveren will present their findings during the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies (AIAS) Lunch Seminar on November 1, 2018.
FLAME University calls upon researchers to send in unpublished research papers for its 2nd International Conference, taking place on March 1 and 2, 2019. The papers should be related to the conference theme ‘An Uncertain World: Growth, Development and Sustainability’. The conference is organised together with The Indian Econometric Society and the WageIndicator Foundation.
Currently nearly all 8,100 factories producing garment and footwear for 24 European, US and Japanese brands are formally independent. These brands, like H&M, C&A, Adidas or Nike, own hardly any factories anymore; neither do they have a domestic production base.
Portugese and Croatian workers in the commerce sector, who get paid according to the lowest pay scales, have the least purchasing power. This is shown through WageIndicator BARCOM research on collectively bargained wages amongst twelve European countries. The best-off workers in commerce with a low wage live in Denmark and Finland.
Do living wages exist in collective agreements? Join the meeting on 'Understanding Collective Agreements in the Commerce Sector', 28 February 2018 in Brussels, to find out.