Collective Agreements, Low Wages and Covid - June 17, 2022

Friday June 17, 2022 | 14.00 - 15.45 CEST

The aim of the event is to inform the public at large about:

Research done on the basis of Collective Agreements in the WageIndicator CBA Database;
The effect of Minimum Wage policies on Collective Agreements;
To understand through text mining and surveys with social partners what type of new regulations are discussed;
The effect of training on creating 'smarter' Collective Agreements.

Formally this webinar can also be seen as a mid-term meeting related to the BARCOVID project, a Social Dialogue Program of the European Commission: VS/2021/0190.

14.00 - 14.05	welcome (zoom doors open at 13.30 CEST for informal talks) Moderator: Paulien Osse, Director WageIndicator Foundation
14.05 - 14.15	Quick overview in numbers Is the BARCOVID project delivering what it should deliver? Mid-term check up By Giedo Jansen, Giedo Jansen is Assistant Professor Regulation of Labour at the University of Amsterdam, AIAS-HSI. His research is multidisciplinary and spans various academic disciplines, including sociology, labor relations and political science. Since June 2022 he is involved in Barcovid. Presentation
14.15 - 14.30	The WageIndicator Collective agreement database About CBAs: Introduction to the WageIndicator collective agreements database: history, present and future. How does it work and what do we do? The team, research topics, countries, projects and impact: an overview. Gabriele Medas, manager COBRA - the WageIndicator Collective Agreement Database Presentation
14.30 - 14.50 Armanda Cetrulo Lucia Kovacova	Industrial relations and the explosion of the COVID-19 pandemic Preliminary evidence from text mining analysis on 1600 social partners newsletters Armanda Cetrulo, School of Advanced Studies Pisa, Lucia Kovacova, CELSI, Central European Labour Studies Institute This topic relates to the BARCOVID project. First reports on text mining: First quarterly report on Covid-19 impact on industrial relations. Methodology Second quarterly report on Covid-19 impact on industrial relations. Preliminary results. Third quarterly report on Covid-19 impact on industrial relations. Preliminary results. Presentation
14.50 - 15.10 Manola Cavallini Laurens Harteveld	Panel with Trade Union negotiators. Topic: Wages in the CBA's and Covid in cba's Language: Italian / English - Moderation: Daniela Ceccon, Director Data, WageIndicator Foundation Manola Cavallini, Italy: CGIL Trade unionist and Member of CNEL Council. Manola is expert of collective bargaining. In charge of CBAs archive and second-level bargaining reports in collaboration with Fondazione di Vittorio. Laurens Harteveld, The Netherlands: General employers’ association AWVN. Collective Agreement Specialist
15.10 - 15.25 Nadia Pralitasari Daniela Ceccon	The effect of training about collective agreements Do we get smarter and more effective CBA's? Nadia Pralitasari, project manager " How decent is my Factory?" and Daniela Ceccon, director Data WageIndicator Foundation Presentation
15.25 - 15.45 Janna Besamusca Jakub Kostolny	Janna's Podcast - a vivid discussion about Minimum Wages in CBAs - parter in the discussion: Eurofound specialst Jakob Kostolny (Working Life unit) Janna Besamusca, University of Utrecht Jakub Kostolny, Eurofound This topic relates to the Eurofound CBA database, and the upcoming Social Dialogue project BARwage