WageIndicator Projects

Project name

Description

Funder

Period

Region

Pay structures palm oil sector

Research on Region-Specific Contexts, Components
and Characteristics of Wages in the Palm Oil Sector

RSPO, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Project in partnership with Peterson Projects

2024

Indonesia, Malaysia, Colombia, Guatemala, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Brazil

Multi-actor partnership for improved due diligence implementation in the textile sector via worker- and community-based monitoring

This Bangladesh-based Decent Work Check project will focus on Ashulia, part of the Dhaka district, which is home to around 1,100 textile factories.

BMZ (Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development Germany)

2023 - 2026

Bangladesh

Living Wages in Flowers, Garment & Leather in Ethiopia - Phase III

WageIndicator Living Wage and Decent Work Check efforts will continue in the garment and flower sectors; moreover, they will expand into a booming adjacent sector, the leather sector, and into the Amhara region.

Mondiaal FNV

2023 - 2025

Ethiopia

BARTIME

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There is a lack of understanding of the specificities of provisions on non-standard working hours in Collective Agreements across European countries. BARTIME will examine the rewards for non-standard hours.

European Commission - SOCPL-2022-IND-REL-01

2023 - 2025

European Union

BARSERVICE

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To support capacity building for collective bargaining in the services sector, BARSERVICE seeks to provide a complex analysis of
industrial relations in the services sector in 6 EU Member States and 3 Candidate Countries.

European Commission - SOCPL-2022-IND-REL-01

2023 - 2025

European Union

Identifying Collective Bargaining Practices on AI in the European services sectors

 

For this project, provisions related to AI and algorithmic management will be analyzed within existing collective agreements for the services sector.

Friedrich Eberhart Stiftung & UNI Europa

2023

European Union

Makin Terang - Improving Work and Worker Representation in Indonesia

This project is Phase
III of WageIndicator's step-change approach to improve transparency on working conditions and enhance
data-driven social dialogue in Indonesian garment factories.

Laudes Foundation

January 2023 - December 2025

Indonesia

Living Tariff Tool for Gig Workers

This project will provide gig workers a tool for to compare their income with the living wage/tariff, and will offer key regulatory stakeholders a framework to propose a living tariff for the
selected sectors of the gig economy.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

January - November 2023

Global

Level-up: support and develop collective bargaining coverage

The primary objective is to increase collective bargaining coverage by levelling-up bargaining to the sectoral/multi-employer level.

UNI Europa

November 2022 - March 2023

European Union

COST: Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab

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The primary objective is to build a pan-European interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary multistakeholder network including policymakers,
industry leaders, civil society organisations, designers, researchers, and the main initiatives happening at the international level, to foster the upsurge of alternative scenarios in the frame of platform work.

European Union, through COST Association AISBL

September 2022 - September 2026

European Union

Right to Organise and Negotiate in Health Sector and Commerce Sector

The aim of this study is to understand the reality the workers are facing in terms of if the employers and state are respecting their right to organise, and to examine how the workers themselves are organised to protect these rights.

SASK

2022 - 2023

Asia, Latin America

Closing the Gaps between Minimum and Living Wages in the Cut Flowers Supply Chains

The project proposes two phases:
(1) Mapping and inventory of countries and players along the cut flower supply chains;
(2) Webinars with stakeholders and trade unions that explores how to close the gap between Minimum Wages and Living wages along the supply chains based on the mapping done.  (3) to develop on the basis of phase (1) and (2).

Mondiaal FNV

2022 - 2023

The Netherlands, Latin America, Africa

BARWAGE

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BARWAGE investigates the potential of collective bargaining as a tool for ensuring adequate minimum wages in the European Union. It explores the size of four wage-setting arenas: the national level, sector level Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs), CBAs at the enterprise level, and
individual wage-setting. BARWAGE applies quantitative and qualitative methods. Partners: University Utrecht, WageIndicator Foundation, Fondazione Giuseppe di Vittorio, CELSI Central European Labour Studies Institute, ETUI and AWVN 

European Commission - SOCPL-2021-IND-REL

September 2022 - September 2024 - 

EU 27 - plus extra focus on Austria, Bulgaria, Czech, Estonia, Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands and Portugal.

BARMETAL

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The BARMETAL project seeks to analyse the current situation and opportunities for strengthening collective bargaining in the
metalworking industry in conditions of technological change, including in particular digitalization, automatization and
decarbonization. The BARMETAL project responds to these challenges and EU-level priorities. The Collective Agreement database from WageIndicator will play a keyrole. Many partners are involved. Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies - Pisa, takes the lead.

European Commission - SOCPL-2021-IND-REL

2023 - 2024

Czechia, Denmark, 
France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Sweden The Netherlands

BARCOVID

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How have the Covid-19 crisis, the state-imposed measures and their consequences affected the industrial relations landscape? Have the Covid-19 consequences affected the renewal of Collective Agreements and have the Covid-19 consequences affected the clauses negotiated in Collective Agreements.

European Commission - Social Dialogue Program -VS/2021/0190

July 2021 - July 2023

 EU 27, plus Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Turkey

Eurofound CBA Database

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The project aims to collect data about Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) in the countries of the European Union, aiming to obtain information about the minimum wage rates agreed in collective agreements and to develop a methodology for a harmonised data-collection of collectively agreed wages.

Eurofound

April 2021 - June 2023

EU 27

Mywage.org/Ethiopia: Living Wages in Flowers & Garment

In Ethiopia Garment Factories and Flower Farms will be checked on compliance with the Labour Law, with the WageIndicator DecentWorkcheck survey. Next to that Cost of Living/Living Wages will be checked and Collective Agreements collected. Results of all this data will be used during the social dialogues with Companies and trade Unions.

Mondiaal FNV

April 2021 - April 2023

Ethiopia

Corona Work Life Survey for Companies

In Ethiopia, Indonesia Garment factories and in Uganda Flower Farms will be contacted about health and safety for workers and income of workers and future of the business

Mondiaal FNV

May 2020 - December 2020

Ethiopia , Uganda, Indonesia

Living and Working in Coronavirus Times

 

WageIndicator is interviewing people around the world to discover what makes the Coronavirus lockdown easier (or tougher), and what is the COVID-19 effect on our jobs, lives and mood. The results are shown in maps and graphs for 100 plus countries, updated on a daily basis. WageIndicator Foundation is responsible for the contents of the survey and the daily updated maps and graphs.

WageIndicator Foundation organizes this global research effort together associated researchers, web masters and translators through its network. All contributions to make this survey possible, to operate it and to disseminate results through its many websites are for free.



March 15, 2020 till …

Global - 134 countries, 38 languages

Pilot Mapping Collective Bargaining Agreements of Palm Oil Plantations

Improved labour rights in the palm oil value chain as a result of the existence of a CBA database providing valuable data for different parties to address and mitigate labour rights risks:
● for the financial sector
● for the palm oil traders
● for palm oil plantations 
● for strengthening trade unions positions and capacity to negotiate improved CBAs ensuring better working conditions and increased trade union rights.

Netherlands Enterprise Agency

2020 - 2021

West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Decent Wage Bangladesh, Phase 1

Insight in actual wages, Cost of Living and Collective Agreements, in order to strengthen say of trade unions through improved Collective Agreements

Mondiaal FNV

2020

Bangladesh

ResPecTMe - Researching Precariousness across the Paid/Unpaid Work Continuum

ResPecTMe will generate a new theoretical model of, and a measurement approach and monitoring tools for, precariousness at the paid and unpaid work continuum. By uncovering the unpaid activities that increasingly underlie paid employment as a source of ‘value’ creation in the labour market, ResPecTMe will generate a novel scientific perspective which breaks the paid/unpaid distinction, and rethinks precariousness on the paid/unpaid work continuum.

 The project This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 833577). WageIndicator is a partner in this project.

October 2019 - August 2024

Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom

How Decent is my  Factory? Phase 2

 

Workers’ driven academic data input on wages and working conditions, enabling stakeholders in the garment industry to check, debate and negotiate factory specific compliance with the labor law and to promote wide application of Collective Agreements.

Laudes Foundation

October 2019 - October 2022 (follow up from Transparency through Mobile Internet )

Indonesia

Platform Workers: Decent Rights & Pay

Process and offer target group and action-oriented information in order to make up for knowledge arrears in the fields of rights and pay quickly and effectively, for the benefit of platform workers in the Netherlands, Argentina, India Spain, UK, South Africa.

Instituut Gak

October 2019 - April 2021

Netherlands, Argentina, India, Spain, South Africa, United Kingdom

How Decent is my Flower Farm?

Improve labour conditions through compliance checks in the flower sector in Ethiopia and Uganda.

Mondiaal FNV

July 2019 - January 2021

Ethiopia, Uganda

WageIndicator Research Lab at FLAME

Teach and share WageIndicator survey, data processing and dissemination know how with FLAME students and offering  internships to max 100 students per year.

FLAME University, Pune, India

July 2019 - July 2022

India

Decent Wage Myanmar, Phase 1

Contribute wage and cost of living data for the creation of a level playing field in tripartite negotiations and consultations, in preparation of establishing new minimum wage levels in the country

Mondiaal FNV

Second half 2019

Myanmar

Bruto Netto check met Werkgevers deel

Aims to provide insight into the taxes and social security contributions that Dutch employees and employers have to pay, through updating its Gross/Net Check and providing explanatory content

Instituut Gak

May 2019 - June 2020

The Netherlands

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Changes in the financial Labour Market

Changes in the financial Labour Market: the impact of Directive 2014/65 (MiFID II) and Digitalization. 

European Commission - Social Dialogue Program - VP/2018/004/0049

2019 - 2020

EU

COLBAR

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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.

European Commission - Social Dialogue Program - Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations -  VS/2019/0077

April 1, 2019 - April 1, 2021

Europe 28 plus 5 associate countries

SSHOC

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 The project aims to provide a full-fledged Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) where data, tools, and training are available and accessible for users of SSH data. 

European Commission - Horizon 2020 Framework Programme : H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2020, nr 823782: Implementing the European Open Science Cloud

January 1, 2019 - May 1 2022

Europe

REWIR

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REWIR (Negotiating Return to Work in the Age of Demographic Change through Industrial Relations)

European Commission – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

March 1, 2019 - April 1 2021

Europe - Case studies for Estonia Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia + benchmark studies for France, Germany and the UK

INGRID2 - Inclusive Growth Infrastructure Diffusion

InGRID2: Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion to fulfil its key role in the development of evidence-based European policies for Inclusive Growth, better measurement of related state policies.

European Union - Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (No. 730998)

May 2017 - May 2021

Europe

Mywage.org/Ethiopia for living wages in the garment sector

This project has a focus on the garment industry. Results will be good insight in living wages, in collective agreements and compliance with the law in garment factories. On the basis of living wages, analyses of the CBA's and performence of factories the trade unions will use intervention meetings with employers/employees in the factories to improve conditions.

FNV Mondiaal 

January 2018 - January 2021

Ethiopia

Transparency through Mobile Internet

Enabling apparel workers and employers to check, debate, negotiate and publish wages and working conditions online

C&A Foundation / Laudes Foundation

April 1, 2017 - April 1, 2019, bridge project til August 1, 2019. (Phase 2 - 2029-2022:  How Decent is my  Factory? )

Indonesia

SERISS

Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS) is a four-year project that aims to strengthen and harmonise social science research across Europe. - Publications

European Union - Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (No. 654221)

2015 - 2019

Europe

BARCOM

Improve expertise in industrial relations in the commerce sector by an innovative approach to analyse the content of collective agreements and relating this to the sectoral bargaining systems, resulting in 3 widely available publications.

European Union - Social Dialogue programme (No. VS/2016/0106)

April 2016 - April 2018

Europe

Decent Wage Central America

Focus Central America - 2016 - Smarter Collective Agreements.

Continue marketing Tusalario

CNV International - Netherlands

2014 - 2017

Central America

Living Wage

Focus in East Africa - 2016 - Wages in Context/ Collective Agreement Data base 

Continue marketing Mywage

Ministry Foreign Affairs - Netherlands

2012 - 2017

East Africa

Decent Wage Africa

Focus in West Africa and Madagascar in 2016 - Good Company Certificates. Continue marketing Votresalaire.org

CNV International - Netherlands

2012 - 2017

Francophone Africa

Decent Wage Asia

Focus in 2016 on improvent information to avid violence at the workplace. Continue marketing Gajimu and Prake

CNV International - Netherlands

2011 - 2017

Asia

Enabling Social Dialogue - East/West Africa

Focus in 2016 in East and West Africa on debates as mini social dialogues.  Continue marketing Mywage and Africapay.

FNV Mondiaal/ DECP - Netherlands

2011 - 2017

East Africa and Ghana

TheQuestionmark.org

Wages in Context

 

2016 - >

Global

Garment Industry in Asia

Wages in Context in the Garment Industry in Asia

Ministry Foreign Affairs - Netherlands

2015 - 2016

Asia

Sexual  Harassment in the Workplace

Working to end sexual harassment in the workplace: South Africa and Indonesia collaborate. This project is a unique comparison which explores legislation and social action about sexual harassment in the workplace in South Africa and Indonesia.

CNV International - Netherlands, (This activity is a part of project: Decent Work & Wages Africa and Asia, 2016)

October 2016

South Africa and Indonesia

Monitoring the impact of the WageIndicator sites and activities

Focus in 2016 impact of debates, websites, helpdesk

FNV Mondiaal - Netherlands

2016

East Africa and Ghana

WIBAR - 3

Industry-level bargaining structures in relation to employment and competi-tive structures in 23 European countries (under review)

European Union - Social Dialogue programme (No. VS/2014/0533)

December 2014 - December 2016

Europe

EduWorks

Labour market matching processes

European Union - Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (No. 608311)

October 2013 - October 2017

Europe

InGRID

Inclusive Growth Infrastructure Diffusion – working conditions

European Union - FP7 research programme (No. 312691)

February 2013 - February 2017 - InGRID 2 - prolongation

Europe

WITA-GPG

Widely disseminate information about gender pay gap in European countries and support trade unions in Hungary, Spain and The Netherlands to reduce the gender pay gap.

European Union - Progress Program (No. JUST/2013/PROG/AG/4929/GE)

December 2014 - December 2016

Europe plus Turkey

Violence at the Workplace

Violence against women at the workplace is a major problem, though the statistical evidence is not well developed for many countries. This report aims at gaining a better insight into the extent to which working women (15 - 65) are facing violence at work in four countries

CNV International - ITUC

June 2015 - November 2015

Honduras, Indonesia, Moldova, Benin

SALARIES OF GRADUATES FROM MEXICAN UNIVERSITIES 

The project aimed to collect salary information from graduates in 70 Mexican universities, challenging WageIndicator (and University of Amsterdam/AIAS) to recruit survey respondents who graduated from any university in Mexico between 2009 and 2013. Facebook ads were successfully used. 

Funded by a private University in Mexico

2014/2015

Mexico

WICARE

Wages and working conditions in social services in European countries

European Union - Social Dialogue programme (No. VS/2013/0404)

December 2013 - December 2014

Europe

WageIndicator Zanzibar

Focus on face to face salary and working conditions data collection, and website Mywage.org/Zanziba

Dutch Embassy - Tanzania

2013

Africa / Tanzania

WEBDATANET

Multidisciplinary European network bringing together leading web-based data collection experts

European Union - COST Action (No. IS1004)

May 2011 - May 2015

Europe

WISUTIL

Wages and working conditions in utilities in 13 European countries

European Union - Social Dialogue programme (No. VS/2010/0382)

November - 2010 - November - 2011

Europe

WEB SURVEY

Improving web survey methodology for social research

Erasmus University Rotterdam - Netherlands

November 2008 - November 2011

The Netherlands

Everybody Wants to Earn a Bit More

 

Ministry Foreign Affairs - Netherlands

2010 - 2011

The Netherlands

Tariffs of the Self Employed

Focus on data collection income of self employed in The Netherlands. Result - Income Check for self employed and in depth information about tariffs.

Ministry Foreign Affairs - Netherlands

2009 - 2010

The Netherlands

Labour Rights for Women

Focus on improvement Labour Law, Collective Agreements. Through Training and Debates. 

Partnership with ITUC Brussels and University of Amsterdam/AIAS

FLOW grant, Ministry Foreign Affairs - Netherlands

2012 - 2016

Global - 3 continents

Decisions for Life

Focus on crucial decision in life for women (and men) below 35. Focus on education, carreer, partner, family and worklife balance. Strong WageIndicator websites. Trade union interaction. Partnership with ITUC Brussels and University of Amsterdam/AIAS

MDG 3 grant, Ministry Foreign Affairs - Netherlands

 2008 - 2012

Global - 4 continents

EUROCCUPATIONS

Developing occupations database

European Union - FP6 research programme (No. 028987)

April 2006 - March 2009

Europe

Decent Work in southern Africa

Focus on developing DecentWorkCheck for use in rural areas, in debates.

Ministry Foreign Affairs - Netherlands

2008

Southern Africa

DecentWorkCheck

Focus on development of the DecentWorkCheck online

Oxfam Novib - Netherlands

2008

Global

WIBAR-2

Wages and working conditions in multi- national enterprises versus domestic firms in 10 European countries

European Union - Social Dialogue programme (No. VS/2007/0534)

December 2007 - November - 2008

Europe

TUSALATIN

Face to Face Interviews salary and working conditions data collection. Set up WageIndicator websites and share information with national centres, trade unions.

CNV International - Netherlands

2008 - 2010

Latin America

Global – Towards a Global WageIndicator

Focus on development WageIndicator websites outside Europe. Focus on multinational research.

FNV Mondiaal - Netherlands

2008 - 2010

Global - 3 continents

CLOSE

Gender pay gap in industries in the Netherlands

Ministry of Social Affairs - Netherlands

January 2007 - September 2007

The Netherlands

Flexible wages

Focus on data collection in The Netherlands on bonusses, allowences

FNV Bondgenoten - Netherlands

2007 - 2008

The Netherlands

WIBAR

Low pay and poor working conditions in 13 industries in 9 European countries

European Union - Social Dialogue programme (No. VS/2006/0178)

September 2006 - August - 2007

Europe

WOLIWEB

Expanding WageIndicator websites and surveys to 8 European countries

European Union - FP6 research programme (No. 506590)

April - 2004

Europe

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