Collective Bargaining in Visegrad Countries During COVID-19

Abstract

This short report aims to provide some insights on the development of the collective bargaining process in the Visegrád countries during the COVID-19 pandemic on the basis of data collected through renewed collective bargaining agreements. The findings stemming from the collected collective bargaining agreements are complemented with theoretical underpinning from a secondary research process.

Since there was a limited number of agreements (altogether 17 from all 4 Visegrád countries) that could be found and analysed within the BARCOVID project therefore we cannot claim that these findings are typical of the impact on each country and on each sector; however, they might provide some starting point for further analyses as regards the potential systematic changes initiated or accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis concerning industrial relations and/or collective bargaining in the region.