Collective Bargaining in France During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The database of French sectoral collective agreements is made of four national collective agreements signed before the explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic and their correspondent renewal signed during the pandemic. The limited number of French agreements is due to the unexpected difficulties encountered in the collection of complete French agreements. More precisely, it depends on the fact that French CBAs are officially published online only as partial documents, instead of the whole entire document, meaning with amendments and renewals of single articles of the agreement itself. The lack of availability of entire agreements renewals is incompatible with the main objective of the BARCOVID project, which is to compare full versions of the same agreement signed before and after the explosion of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, given the very limited number of documents available to perform the pre/post Covid analysis, the report on French CBAs will essentially present the main results of the comparative analysis without advancing any further generalization.