Does the Night Shift Still Pay? The Labor Market Outcomes of Collective Bargaining on (Premium) Pay for Working Time | WageIndicator at RDW 2025

About the Session

As part of the 2025 Regulating for Decent Work (RDW), the WageIndicator Foundation will host this session on collective bargaining and working time, titled Does the Night Shift Still Pay? The Labor Market Outcomes of Collective Bargaining on (Premium) Pay for Working Time.

This session explores how collective bargaining over both standard and non-standard working hours impacts wage adequacy and labor market equity. While pay negotiations are widely studied, working time provisions—such as premium pay for inconvenient hours—are often overlooked despite their importance to income, especially for low-wage workers. Using data from over 3,100 global collective agreements, papers examine disparities between negotiated provisions and real labor market outcomes. Topics include working time reductions, premium pay, and compliance in sectors like the Indonesian garment industry. The session highlights how working hours shape wage adequacy and emphasizes the need to consider time alongside pay to effectively tackle in-work poverty and promote decent work.

This session is also an experts meeting for the BARTIME Project.

Date and Time: 2nd July, 11:30 AM - 1 PM

Chair: Janna Besamusca

Discussants: Lonnie Golden and Ernest Tinghum

Paper presentations:

• BARTIME_BESAMUSCA_RDW_presentation | Presentation by Janna Besamusca
• TIJDENS_MEDAS_AHMED_STANDARD WORKING HOURS WORLDWIDE 9th ILO RDW | Presentation by Kea Tijdens and Ifitkhar Ahmad
• presentation_RDW_geneve | Presentation by Ferran Ellas Moreno
• FEBY_HAMID_presentation | Presentation by Dela Feby and Nadia Pralitasari