BARCOM
BARCOM project aimed to improve expertise in industrial relations by analyzing European collective agreements and relating them to sectoral bargaining systems across the EU.
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Project title | With innovative tools for bargaining support in the commerce sector (BARCOM) |
Funded by |  European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, VP/2015/004 |
Duration | 29 March 2016 - 30 March 2018 |
Goal of the project | Improve expertise in industrial relations in the commerce sector by the innovative approach of analyzing the content of European collective agreements and relating the results to the sectoral bargaining systems, resulting in 3 widely available publications, and 28 WageIndicator websites with access to national Collective Agreements, full text and annotated/coded. |
Countries in Action | 28 EU-member states, 6.2 million enterprises in the commercial sector, employing 36.2 million |
Lead Partner | University of Amsterdam/AIAS - Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies |
Key actors of the project | Research Professor Kea Tijdens, AIAS; Professor Martin Kahanec, Department of Labour and Social Development, EUBA; Marta Kahancova, managing director, CELSI; Paulien Osse, WageIndicator Foundation, director/ projectleader on behalf of AIAS |
Partners | Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Bratislava University of Economics in Bratislava (EUBA), Bratislava EuroCommerce – The Retail, Wholesale and International Trade Representation to the EU, Brussels UNI Europa – Uni Global Union, Brussels |
Associate Partner | WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam |
Time line | April 2016 - start |
Kick-off meetings | March 29 2016 - Barcom meeting Amsterdam 290316 - agenda - Amsterdam June 15 2016 - Barcom meeting Amsterdam 150616 - agenda - Amsterdam |
Training session | May 19 - 20, 2016 - Agenda Training Session Coding Collective Agreements |
Presentations with updates at Social Dialogue meetings | June 6, 2016 - BARCOM MEETING BRUSSELS 20160606 - Brussels October 28, 2016 - Barcom CBA slides - Brussels October 11, 2017 - Ceccon MEETING BRUSSELS 20171011 - Brussels February 27, 2018 - Presentation by Paulien Osse at the Social Dialogue meeting - Brussels |
Mid-term meeting | March 30 2017 - Agenda Presentation about Collecting and Coding Collective Agreements – BARCOM MEETING AMSTERDAM - 20170330–(BARCOM/WageIndicator / AIAS – database manager) Adventures in collecting Collective Agreements – Who owns what? Paulien Osse (BARCOM/WageIndicator/AIAS - project manager) Overview of bargaining systems in the commerce sector across the EU – 20170330 BARCOM midterm meeting presentation Kahancova Sedlakova (BARCOM/Celsi, researchers) Overview of multi and single employer bargaining in Europe by WIBAR3-300317-BARCOM (researcher AIAS) - Maarten van Klaveren Monitoring Collective Bargaining in the UK - How is the LRD data base working? Payline BARCOM presentation March 2017 (Wages and Conditions researcher,LRD) Insight in the Dutch Collective Agreement database, 20170309-Katinka-ppt-2017-02-22 Caoresearch - AIAS - BARCOM (FNV) |
Presentations for Hungarian Social Partners | December 12, 2016, visit of Hungarian delegation of social partners to AIAS/Amsterdam |
Final meeting | Understanding Collective Agreements in the Commerce Sector -BARCOM meeting, Brussels, Wed. 28 February 2018 - Final Agenda BARCOM Conference February 28 - 1018 |
Final reports | |
One-Pagers per country - English and national language | Collective Bargaining in the Commerce Sector in 28 Countries in Europe in English and National Languages |
Presentations at final Conference - February 28, 2018 | |
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Leaflet | |
Leaflet - WageIndicator | |
Codebook and Leaflet Collective Agreement database | |
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Final BARCOM Project Report | |
Evaluation report | Dr. Ernest Tingum, Evaluation report |
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Collective Agreement Database: The standard selection in of topics covered is | - General Collective Agreements-data, - Gender, - Job titles, - Social Security & Pensions, - Training, Employment Contracts, - Sickness & Disability, - Health and Safety & Medical Assistance, - Work and Family Arrangements, - Wages, - Working Hours and Schedules, Paid Leaves And Paid Holidays, - Coverage. |
National WageIndicator websites with a Collective Agreement Database | Austria Collective Agreement Database Belgium Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta The Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom |
Comparison of Collective Agreements? | Enter any of the above weblinks and you can start doing comparisons. |
Funding acknowledgement | BARCOM (VP/2015/004) is funded by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. Disclaimer: The information and views set out in this page are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein. |