COLBAR

Name of the project COLBAR
Project title EUROPE-wide analyses of COLlective BARgaining agreements
Funded by European Commission - Social Dialogue Program - Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations - VS/2019/0077
Duration 1/4/2019 - 31/3/2021
Aim of the project The overall objective of COLBAR-EUROPE is to improve knowledge about industrial relations and social dialogue, specifically about the content of Collective Agreements in Europe. lt aims to undertake research activities to enhance the collection of comparative information on collective bargaining outcomes in EU Member States and Candidate Countries and at European level. Collective bargaining is key for wage setting and working conditions, but very little is known about what exactly is agreed. Few countries code agreements, but most countries are lacking such overviews, and databases for cross-country comparisons are absent. Since 2014 however associate partner Wagelndicator maintains a database with full text, annotated, and coded Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs), using a standard coding scheme. ln BARCOM (VS/2016/0106), the Action's predecessor, 120 agreements from the commerce sector from 23 countries were successfully analysed. Social partners expressed their interest in getting for the first time ever insights into the content of Collective Agreements. COLBAR-EUROPE aims to deepen these insights by adding more than 500 agreements plus 25 Transnational Agreements to the CBA Database, now covering commerce, manufacturing, construction and public sectors for EU28 plus 5 candidate countries. Using the coded data of the agreements, the Action's reports will focus on comparisons across industries, on public versus private sector agreements, on wage setting, on trade-offs in the wider bargaining agenda, on possible convergence of agreements concluded by various daughters of the same multinational company or that are related to Transnational Agreements. The Action will also prepare reports about agreements in the Visegrad countries, ltaly, the Netherlands, and Spain. The reports will be presented at the Main Event in Amsterdam, for which bargaining negotiators from the 33 countries, social partners and other stakeholders will be invited.
Countries EU28 + 5 Associate countries - (Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey)
Lead partner University of Amsterdam/AIAS
Key actors Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Bratislava
  National Council for Economics and Labour (C.N.E.L.), Rome
Associate partners ETUI, Brussels
  UNI Europa, Brussels
  WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam
  Solidarność, Katowice; Solidarność, Gdansk
  CCOO Servicios, Madrid
Newsletter
  1. First 25 agreements coded for COLBAR project (07/23/2019)
  2. COLBAR kicks off in Visegrad region (10/17/2019)
  3. Mid-term COLBAR meeting in Amsterdam coming up (01/15/2020)
  4. COLBAR: 142 Collective Agreements Uploaded in 2020 (04/08/2020)
  5. COLBAR's Steady Progress: Only 96 Collective Agreements Left (07/08/2020)
  6. Final Stretch: Only 42 Collective Agreements Left (10/07/2020)
  7. Join the Final COLBAR Conference on 25 February (01/13/2021)
  8. COLBAR is Wrapping Up, Thank You for Participating (04/07/2021)
Presentations Collectively Bargained Pay Inequality", presentation of Janna Besamusca, University of Amsterdam, at the SASE conference, 21 July 2020
Publications 
Kick Off Meeting Amsterdam April 29/30 2019

Research Objectives - Kea Tijdens & Wike Been

Collective Agreement database - Daniela Ceccon

Collective Agreements Italy - Prof. Claudio Lucifora

Collective Agreements Spain - Carles Catala

Collective Agreements Poland - Slawomir Adamczyk

Collective Agreements the Netherlands - Wike Been

Kick Off Meeting Bratislava, October 9, 2019 Project introduction on the WageIndicator database of collective agreements; the largest Collective Agreement data base in the world (Paulien Osse, Wage Indicator director)
  Content of collective agreements in Visegrad countries – analysis and preliminary findings from BARCOM/COLBAR project (Gabor Szudi, CELSI data analyst)
  Collective bargaining in Slovakia – characteristics and trends (Monika Martiskova, CELSI researcher)
  Collective bargaining in Hungary – characteristics and trends (Szilvia Borbely, freelance researcher)
  The Austrian online databank of collective agreements (Paul Schwab, ÖGB-Verlag editor)
  Planned Eurofound project on data on collective agreements (Matthias Rasche, Eurofound data officer)
  Open discussion on the current state and future needs of available comparable information on collective agreements in the Visegrad region – Moderated by Paulien Osse (WageIndicator director)
   
Mid Term Meeting COLBAR - Zoom / Amsterdam - 26/27 March 2020 Agenda 26/27 March 2020, meeting.
Final Conference COLBAR - Zoom - 25 February 2021 Agenda 25 February 2021 - Comparing the bargaining agendas in manufacturing, construction, commerce, public sector across Europe
Video's 1. Snapshot Colbar Project - 2. Collective Agreements in Europe, a Comparison - 3. Analysing the Collective Agreements through Machine Learning
Final Reports  
Report 1 One-page-one-country reports with basic descriptive data from the agreements database for 33 countries
Report 2 Clauses And Patterns Within And Across Countries In Four Sectors In Europe - Manufacturing, Construction, Commerce, Public Sector By Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation
Report 3 Collective Bargaining Agreements In The Visegrad Countries By Gábor Szüdi - Central European Labour Studies Institute
Report 4

Collective Bargaining In The Netherlands - Manufacturing, Construction, Commerce And The Public Sector By Niels Jansen (English)

Collectieve Onderhandelingen In Nederland - Industrie, Bouw, Handel En De Publieke Sector By Niels Jansen (Dutch)

Report 5

National Collective Bargaining Agreements in Italy: An Investigation on Wages and Remote Working* By Armanda Cetrulo - Institute of Economics & EMbeDS, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa (English)

Accordi Collettivi Nazionali In Italia: Un'indagine Su Salari E Lavoro A Distanza By Armanda Cetrulo - Institute of Economics & EMbeDS, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa

Report 6

Contents And Characteristics Of The Spanish Collective Bargaining Agreements By Gabriele Medas and Daniela Ceccon, WageIndicator Foundation and University of Amsterdam (English)

Contenidos y características del español acuerdos colectivos de negociacion By Gabriele Medas and Daniela Ceccon, WageIndicator Foundation and University of Amsterdam (Spanish)

Report 7 Collectively Agreed Wages In Europe By Janna Besamusca, University of Amsterdam
Report 8 The Wider Bargaining Agenda With A Specific Focus On The Trade-Off Between Clauses By Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation
Report 9 Transnational Company Agreements By Maarten van Klaveren and Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation
Report 10 Feasibility Of A Europe-Wide Data Collection Of Collective Agreements By Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator Foundation
Report 11 Report About The Final Event By Aakash Bothra and Niels Peuchen
Overview of COLBAR pages in national WageIndicator websites.
Albania https://rrogaime.al/kodi-i-punes/colbar-europe-baza-e-te-dhenave-per-marreveshjeve-kolektive-shqiperi
Austria https://lohnspiegel.org/osterreich/arbeitsrecht/datenbank-der-tarifvertrage/colbar-europe-datenbank-tarifsvertraege-oesterreich
Belgium - fr https://votresalaire.be/droits/conventions-collectives-de-la-belgique/colbar-europe-base-de-donnees-sur-les-conventions-collectives-belgique
Belgium - nl https://loonwijzer.be/arbeidsrecht/cao-database/collectieve-arbeidsovereenkomst-database-belgie-be-nl
Bulgaria https://moiatazaplata.org/trudovo-pravo/baza-ot-danni-za-kolektivni-sporazumenija/colbar-europe-baza-danni-za-kolektivni-trudovi-dogovori-balgariya
Croatia https://mojaplaca.org/zakon-o-radu/baza-podataka-o-kolektivnim-ugovorima/colbar-europe-baza-podataka-kolektivnih-ugovora-hrvatska
Cyprus https://mywage.org/cyprus/nomothesia/colbar-europe-basi-dedomenon-syllogikon-symbaseon-kypros
Czech https://mujplat.cz/poradce/databaze-kolektivnich-smluv/colbar-europe-databaze-kolektivnich-smluv-ceska-republika
Denmark https://lontjek.dk/arbejdsretten/database-over-kollektive-overenskomster/colbar-europe-database-over-kollektive-overenskomster-danmark
Estonia https://mysalary.ee/toooigus/kollektiivleppe-andmebaas/colbar-europe-kollektiivlepingute-andmebaas-eestis
Finland https://wageindicator.fi/tyooikeus/tyoehtosopimustietokanta/colbar-europe-tyoehtosopimustietokanta-suomi
France https://votresalaire.fr/droits/conventions-collectives-francaises/colbar-europe-base-de-donnees-sur-les-conventions-collectives-france
Germany https://wageindicator.de/arbeitsrecht/datenbank-der-tarifvertrage/colbar-europe-datenbank-tarifsvertraege-deutschland
Greece https://mywage.gr/labour-law/base-dedomenon-sullogikon-sumbaseon/colbar-europe-basi-dedomenon-syllogikon-symbaseon-ellada
Hungary https://berbarometer.hu/munkajog/kollektiv-szerzodesek-adatbazisa/colbar-europe-kollektiv-szerzodesek-adatbazisa-magyarorszag
Ireland https://mywage.org/ireland/labour-law/colbar-europe-collective-agreements-database-ireland
Italy https://iltuosalario.it/le-leggi-italiane-sul-lavoro/contratti-collettivi-nazionali-di-lavoro-in-italia/colbar-europe-database-dei-contratti-collettivi-italia
Latvia https://mysalary.lv/darba-likumi/colbar-europe-kopligumu-datubaze-latvija
Lithuania https://mysalary.lt/darbo-teises/kolektyviniu-sutarciu-duomenu-baze/colbar-europe-kolektyviniu-sutarciu-duomenu-baze-lietuva
Luxembourg - de https://lohnspiegel.lu/droit-du-travail/colbar-europe-datenbank-tarifsvertraege-luxemburg
Luxembourg - fr https://lohnspiegel.lu/droit-du-travail/colbar-europe-base-de-donnees-sur-les-conventions-collectives-luxembourg
Malta https://mywage.org/malta/labour-law/collective-agreements-database/colbar-europe-collective-agreements-database-malta
Bosnia https://mojazarada.me/plata/colbar-europe-baza-podataka-kolektivnih-ugovora-crna-gora
The Netherlands https://loonwijzer.nl/arbeidsvoorwaarden/cao-database/colbar-europe-cao-database-nederland
North Macedonia https://mojataplata.mk/paga/colbar-europe-baza-e-te-dhenave-per-marreveshjeve-kolektive-maqedonia-e-veriut
Poland https://twojezarobki.com/prawo-pracy/baza-danych-umow-zbiorowych/colbar-europe-baza-danych-umow-zbiorowych-polska
Portugal https://meusalario.pt/direitos-do-trabalho/base-de-acordos-colectivos/colbar-europe-base-de-dados-de-acordos-coletivos-portugal
Romania https://salarulmeu.ro/drepturile-tale/baza-de-date-contracte-colective-de-munca/colbar-europe-baza-de-date-a-contractelor-colective-de-munca-romania
Serbia https://mojazarada.rs/plata/colbar-europe-baza-podataka-kolektivnih-ugovora-srbija
Slovakia https://mojplat.sk/pravo/databaza-kolektivnych-zmluv/colbar-europe-databaza-kolektivnych-zmluv-slovensko
Slovenia https://mojaplaca.si/delovno-pravo/podatkovna-zbirka-kolektivnih-pogodb/colbar-europe-podatkovna-zbirka-kolektivnih-pogodb-slovenija
Spain https://tusalario.es/leys-laborales/base-de-datos-de-convenios-colectivos/colbar-europe-base-de-datos-de-convenios-colectivos-espana
Sweden https://lonecheck.se/arbetsratt/kollektivavtalsdatabasen/colbar-europe-databas-kollektivavtal-sverige
Turkey https://maascetveli.org/is-kanunu/toplu-is-sozlesmeleri-veritabani/colbar-europe-toplu-is-sozlesmeleri-veritabani-turkiye
UK https://wageindicator.co.uk/advice/collective-agreements-database/colbar-europe-collective-agreements-database-united-kingdom

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