BARCOM

Language

This BARCOM Project page in German, French, Italian, Polish

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

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.

28 EU-member states, 6.2 million enterprises in the commercial sector, employing 36.2 million 

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

• 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

• WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam

• April 2016 - start
• June 2016 - first wave of Collective Agreements shared - (focus: sector agreements and company agreements (multinationals) please send to   office@wageindicator.org
• August 2016 - second wave of Collective Agreements shared - (focus: sector agreements and company agreements (multinationals)  please send to  office@wageindicator.org
• October 2016 - third wave of Collective Agreements shared - (focus: sector agreements and company agreements (multinationals) please send to  office@wageindicator.org
• March 2017 - research topics final - last check on Collective Agreements
• February 28 2018 - conference - presentation of outcome 

March 29 2016 - Barcom meeting Amsterdam 290316 - agenda - Amsterdam

June 15 2016 - Barcom meeting Amsterdam 150616 - agenda - Amsterdam

May 19 - 20, 2016 - Agenda Training Session Coding Collective Agreements

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

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)
• Topics for research

December 12, 2016, visit of Hungarian delegation of social partners to  AIAS/Amsterdam

• BARCOM MEETING AMSTERDAM CECCON- HUNGARY 20161212
• BARCOM MEETING AMSTERDAM KLAVEREN - HUNGARY 20161212

Understanding Collective Agreements in the Commerce Sector -BARCOM meeting,  Brussels, Wed. 28 February 2018 - Final Agenda BARCOM Conference February 28 - 1018

Pictures - BARCOM Conference February 28, 2018

Report 1 - Report 1

Report 2 -report2-revision-16april

Report 3 - Report 3

Use this link to go to the agenda and all presentations.

BARCOM LEAFLET 2016

BARCOM LEAFLET NL

BARCOM LEAFLET DE

BARCOM LEAFLET FR

BARCOM LEAFLET IT

BARCOM LEAFLET PL

Ceccon, D., Janeckova, M., Kostolny, J. 2017 . Codebook WageIndicator Collective Agreements Database. WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam, and Central European Labour Studies Institute CELSI , Slovakia.

Leaflet Collective Agreement database in national languages - TIP

Collective Agreement Database focus Hungary - watch video presentation in English

Barcom CBA slides - Hungarian

BARCOM final results - EN, BARCOM final results - IT, BARCOM final results - NL, BARCOM final results - SK

Dr. Ernest Tingum, Evaluation report

Newsletter March - April 2018

• 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.