The technique behind the world of indexes and databases

Keynote

Keynote speaker: Rob van Tulder - Rob is a professor of International Business-Society Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and chairperson WageIndicator Foundation. Professor van Tulder is co-founder of RSM's Department of Business-Society Management, a world-leading department on the global issues surrounding sustainability.

Recording | Slides

Video 1: All you need to know about the WageIndicator Labour Rights Index

Video 2: Minimum Wage data WageIndicator. Now for 196 countries. Why? What? For whom?

Panel discussion

Featuring representatives from ITUC - Brussels, ILO - Geneva, Worldbank, University of Amsterdam.

Recording

Panelist: Catelene Passchier - Catelene Passchier is the Chair of the Workers’ group in the ILO since she was elected in that position in June 2017, and in that capacity also the vice-chair of the ILO’s Governing Body. In addition to her ILO responsibilities, she is special adviser to the president of FNV (Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions), member of the Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines, and vice-chair of the board of Fair Wear Foundation.

Panelist: Katrin Schulz - Katrin Schulz leads research on labor and employment law for the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law project. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2013, she conducted policy and legal analysis for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, a labor law firm and several nonprofit organizations focused on human rights and gender equality. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Panelist: Evelyn Astor - Astor is an Advisor on Economic and Social Policy at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Much of her work focusses on improving the adequacy and coverage of minimum wages and supporting unions in their minimum wage negotiations. She also works with unions on improving access to social protection and identifying financing possibilities for social protection reforms.

Panelist: Evert Verhulp - Prof. Dr Evert Verhulp worked for the FNV (Dutch Trade Union Federation), practiced law and worked as a Senior Lecturer in Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2003, he is a Professor of Labour Law and substitute Deputy Justice at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. He is an independent member of the SER (Social Economic Council) and a member of its board.

Moderator Panel Discussion: Martin Kahanec - Professor and Acting Dean (2020-2021, 2017-2019) of the School of Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest. Founder and Scientific Director of CELSI, Bratislava.

Keynote

Keynote speaker: Mirjam de Blécourt - Mirjam is an employment lawyer and partner at Baker McKenzie in Amsterdam. Together with her team she advises the boards of multinational companies on labour law issues in the broadest sense of the word. In addition to her position at Baker McKenzie, she is also a member of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament. For 7 consecutive years, Mirjam is ranked as is one of Netherlands‘ Top 200 most influential people, published by De Volkskrant. Furthermore, she is ranked in the top 10 of the most influential women in politics, published by Opzij.

Mirjam accepted September 30, 2020 the very first Labour Rights Index in Amsterdam.

Recording

Q & A with INDEX Makers

In touch with the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge,  the Centre for Global Workers Rights and the Copenhagen Business School

Recording

Panelist: Mark Anner - Anner is a professor of labor and employment relations and political science. He is also the founding director of both the Center for Global Workers’ Rights and the School’s master’s program in Labor and Global Workers’ Rights, which is a part of the Global Labour University network.

Slides

Panelist: Simon Deakin - Deakin is a professor of law and Director of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) at Cambridge University. He specialises in the empirical and economic analysis of law and is a co-author of the CBR Leximetric Database of labour, company and insolvency laws.

Panelist: Janine Leschke - Janine Leschke is professor with special responsibilities in Comparative Labour Market Analysis at the Department of Management, Society and Communication at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Her main research areas are comparative labour market and welfare state analysis with a focus on Europe.

Slides

Moderator Q & A with the Index Makers: Stephanie Steinmetz - Stephanie is an Associate Professor of Social Stratification at the University of Lausanne. Moreover, she is an affiliated researcher at the University of Amsterdam where she works with the WageIndicator Foundation.

Keynote - UNDERSTANDING THE DRIVERS OF MINIMUM WAGE-SETTING:  AN ANALYSIS OF 201 COUNTRIES

Keynote speaker: Kea Tijdens and Maarten van Klaveren - Kea Tijdens is the Research Director of the WageIndicator Foundation and co-founder. Kea developed the Minimum Wage database. Maarten van Klaveren is a senior researcher involved in research for WageIndicator.

Recording | Slides

Q & A with INDEX Users

In touch with Eurofound, Workers Rights Consortium, The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (Hiil).

Recording

Panelist: Christian Welz - Christian Welz is a senior research manager in the fields of industrial relations (IR), EU labour law and employment policy at Eurofound (a tripartite EU agency based in Dublin). He is leading various EU IR governance projects (EU IR dictionary and index, varieties of IR, EU Social Dialogue, capacity building, working life country profiles).

Panelist: Martin Gramatikov - Dr. Martin Gramatikov is a leading expert in using empirical legal research in the fields of access to justice, dispute resolution and human rights. Martin specializes in conducting large scale justice needs studies; measurement of how people perceive justice; and impact evaluations of access to justice and dispute resolution programmes.

Panelist: Rola Abimourched - Rola Abimourched is the Senior Program Director at the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization. As part of the leadership team, Rola coordinates the WRC’s factory investigations, works with the Director and Deputy Directors on organizational strategy and annual goals. She also manages the labor rights monitoring program in China, Ethiopia, and Lesotho, including working closely with partners in Lesotho and the US to establish groundbreaking agreements to address gender-based violence and harassment in garment factories in Lesotho. 

Moderator of the Q &A with the Index Users: Janna Besamusca - Sociologist. Research into the motherhood effects on women's labour force participation and wages; informal work in Africa; collective bargaining and industrial relations. Postdoc at University of Amsterdam. 

Conclusions

By Martin Kahanec

Recording

The webinar is organised by CELSI, Central European Labour Studies Institute, Centre for Labour Research and WageIndicator Foundation. The webinar is powered by the INGRiD project.