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COLBAR

COLBAR Project aims to improve knowledge about industrial relations and social dialogue in Europe by analyzing collective bargaining agreements across EU Member States and Candidate Countries.

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2 years
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Name of the project COLBAR
Project title EUROPE-wide analyses of COLlective BARgaining agreements
Funded by European Commission - Social Dialogue Program - Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations - VS/2019/0077
Duration 1/4/2019 - 31/3/2021
Aim of the project 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. lt aims to undertake research activities to enhance the collection of comparative information on collective bargaining outcomes in EU Member States and Candidate Countries and at European level. Collective bargaining is key for wage setting and working conditions, but very little is known about what exactly is agreed. Few countries code agreements, but most countries are lacking such overviews, and databases for cross-country comparisons are absent. Since 2014 however associate partner Wagelndicator maintains a database with full text, annotated, and coded Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs), using a standard coding scheme. ln BARCOM (VS/2016/0106), the Action's predecessor, 120 agreements from the commerce sector from 23 countries were successfully analysed. Social partners expressed their interest in getting for the first time ever insights into the content of Collective Agreements. COLBAR-EUROPE aims to deepen these insights by adding more than 500 agreements plus 25 Transnational Agreements to the CBA Database, now covering commerce, manufacturing, construction and public sectors for EU28 plus 5 candidate countries. Using the coded data of the agreements, the Action's reports will focus on comparisons across industries, on public versus private sector agreements, on wage setting, on trade-offs in the wider bargaining agenda, on possible convergence of agreements concluded by various daughters of the same multinational company or that are related to Transnational Agreements. The Action will also prepare reports about agreements in the Visegrad countries, ltaly, the Netherlands, and Spain. The reports will be presented at the Main Event in Amsterdam, for which bargaining negotiators from the 33 countries, social partners and other stakeholders will be invited.
Countries EU28 + 5 Associate countries - (Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey)
Lead partner University of Amsterdam/AIAS
Key actors Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), Bratislava
  National Council for Economics and Labour (C.N.E.L.), Rome
Associate partners ETUI, Brussels
  UNI Europa, Brussels
  WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam
  Solidarność, Katowice; Solidarność, Gdansk
  CCOO Servicios, Madrid
Newsletter
  1. First 25 agreements coded for COLBAR project (07/23/2019)
  2. COLBAR kicks off in Visegrad region (10/17/2019)
  3. Mid-term COLBAR meeting in Amsterdam coming up (01/15/2020)
  4. COLBAR: 142 Collective Agreements Uploaded in 2020 (04/08/2020)
  5. COLBAR's Steady Progress: Only 96 Collective Agreements Left (07/08/2020)
  6. Final Stretch: Only 42 Collective Agreements Left (10/07/2020)
  7. Join the Final COLBAR Conference on 25 February (01/13/2021)
  8. COLBAR is Wrapping Up, Thank You for Participating (04/07/2021)
Presentations Besamusca_SASE_2020_presentation
Publications 
Kick Off Meeting Amsterdam April 29/30 2019

190429-COLBAR-EUROPE research objectives

20190429-Ceccon - COLBAR - Kickoff - 20190429

20190329-COLBAR_Amsterdam_2019_Cnel_CL

20190429-Es-Collective bargaining in Spain. General considerations

20190429-CBAs in Poland Colbar

20190429-wike-cbas-nlPresentation kick off_CA in NL
Kick Off Meeting Bratislava, October 9, 2019 01_20191009-Colbar-Europe-Paulien-Osse
  02_20191009-Colbar-Europe-Szudi
  03_COLBAR presenation_martiskova
  04_Collective_bargaining_Hungary_Bratislava_09.10
  05_KVSystem_2019-10-09
  06_COLBAR Eurofound Matthias Rasche
  Open discussion on the current state and future needs of available comparable information on collective agreements in the Visegrad region – Moderated by Paulien Osse (WageIndicator director)
   
Mid Term Meeting COLBAR - Zoom / Amsterdam - 26/27 March 2020 Agenda 26/27 March 2020, meeting.
Final Conference COLBAR - Zoom - 25 February 2021 Agenda 25 February 2021 - Comparing the bargaining agendas in manufacturing, construction, commerce, public sector across Europe
Video's 1. Snapshot Colbar Project - 2. Collective Agreements in Europe, a Comparison - 3. Analysing the Collective Agreements through Machine Learning
Final Reports  
Report 1 One-page-one-country reports with basic descriptive data from the agreements database for 33 countries
Report 2 02-REPORT 2 Clauses and patterns within and across countries in four sectors
Report 3 03-COLBAR-EUROPE - Report 3 - Visegrad-final-20210419
Report 4

04-Report 4 Collective bargaining in the Netherlands

04-summary-in Dutch-Collective-Bargaining-The_NetherlandsReport 4 Samenvatting Nederlands
Report 5

05-20210422-Cetrulo colbar_2021-

05-Summary-Italian-Report 5 ITALIA SINTESI_ac
Report 6

06-REPORT 6 - SPAIN -COLBAR-EUROPE

06-Summary-inSpanish-ESPAGNA Resumen del studio
Report 7 07-COLBAR-EUROPE_Report7_payscales_final
Report 8 08-REPORT 8 - wider bargaining agenda
Report 9 09-REPORT 9 Transnational agreements
Report 10 10-COLBAR-EUROPE-Report 10_Feasibility study
Report 11 11-COLBAR-EUROPE-REPORT-Conference
Overview of COLBAR pages in national WageIndicator websites.
Albania https://rrogaime.al/kodi-i-punes/colbar-europe-baza-e-te-dhenave-per-marreveshjeve-kolektive-shqiperi
Austria https://lohnspiegel.org/osterreich/arbeitsrecht/datenbank-der-tarifvertrage/colbar-europe-datenbank-tarifsvertraege-oesterreich
Belgium - fr https://votresalaire.be/droits/conventions-collectives-de-la-belgique/colbar-europe-base-de-donnees-sur-les-conventions-collectives-belgique
Belgium - nl https://loonwijzer.be/arbeidsrecht/cao-database/collectieve-arbeidsovereenkomst-database-belgie-be-nl
Bulgaria https://moiatazaplata.org/trudovo-pravo/baza-ot-danni-za-kolektivni-sporazumenija/colbar-europe-baza-danni-za-kolektivni-trudovi-dogovori-balgariya
Croatia https://mojaplaca.org/zakon-o-radu/baza-podataka-o-kolektivnim-ugovorima/colbar-europe-baza-podataka-kolektivnih-ugovora-hrvatska
Cyprus https://mywage.org/cyprus/nomothesia/colbar-europe-basi-dedomenon-syllogikon-symbaseon-kypros
Czech https://mujplat.cz/poradce/databaze-kolektivnich-smluv/colbar-europe-databaze-kolektivnich-smluv-ceska-republika
Denmark https://lontjek.dk/arbejdsretten/database-over-kollektive-overenskomster/colbar-europe-database-over-kollektive-overenskomster-danmark
Estonia https://mysalary.ee/toooigus/kollektiivleppe-andmebaas/colbar-europe-kollektiivlepingute-andmebaas-eestis
Finland https://wageindicator.fi/tyooikeus/tyoehtosopimustietokanta/colbar-europe-tyoehtosopimustietokanta-suomi
France https://votresalaire.fr/droits/conventions-collectives-francaises/colbar-europe-base-de-donnees-sur-les-conventions-collectives-france
Germany https://wageindicator.de/arbeitsrecht/datenbank-der-tarifvertrage/colbar-europe-datenbank-tarifsvertraege-deutschland
Greece https://mywage.gr/labour-law/base-dedomenon-sullogikon-sumbaseon/colbar-europe-basi-dedomenon-syllogikon-symbaseon-ellada
Hungary https://berbarometer.hu/munkajog/kollektiv-szerzodesek-adatbazisa/colbar-europe-kollektiv-szerzodesek-adatbazisa-magyarorszag
Ireland https://mywage.org/ireland/labour-law/colbar-europe-collective-agreements-database-ireland
Italy https://iltuosalario.it/le-leggi-italiane-sul-lavoro/contratti-collettivi-nazionali-di-lavoro-in-italia/colbar-europe-database-dei-contratti-collettivi-italia
Latvia https://mysalary.lv/darba-likumi/colbar-europe-kopligumu-datubaze-latvija
Lithuania https://mysalary.lt/darbo-teises/kolektyviniu-sutarciu-duomenu-baze/colbar-europe-kolektyviniu-sutarciu-duomenu-baze-lietuva
Luxembourg - de https://lohnspiegel.lu/droit-du-travail/colbar-europe-datenbank-tarifsvertraege-luxemburg
Luxembourg - fr https://lohnspiegel.lu/droit-du-travail/colbar-europe-base-de-donnees-sur-les-conventions-collectives-luxembourg
Malta https://mywage.org/malta/labour-law/collective-agreements-database/colbar-europe-collective-agreements-database-malta
Bosnia https://mojazarada.me/plata/colbar-europe-baza-podataka-kolektivnih-ugovora-crna-gora
The Netherlands https://loonwijzer.nl/arbeidsvoorwaarden/cao-database/colbar-europe-cao-database-nederland
North Macedonia https://mojataplata.mk/paga/colbar-europe-baza-e-te-dhenave-per-marreveshjeve-kolektive-maqedonia-e-veriut
Poland https://twojezarobki.com/prawo-pracy/baza-danych-umow-zbiorowych/colbar-europe-baza-danych-umow-zbiorowych-polska
Portugal https://meusalario.pt/direitos-do-trabalho/base-de-acordos-colectivos/colbar-europe-base-de-dados-de-acordos-coletivos-portugal
Romania https://salarulmeu.ro/drepturile-tale/baza-de-date-contracte-colective-de-munca/colbar-europe-baza-de-date-a-contractelor-colective-de-munca-romania
Serbia https://mojazarada.rs/plata/colbar-europe-baza-podataka-kolektivnih-ugovora-srbija
Slovakia https://mojplat.sk/pravo/databaza-kolektivnych-zmluv/colbar-europe-databaza-kolektivnych-zmluv-slovensko
Slovenia https://mojaplaca.si/delovno-pravo/podatkovna-zbirka-kolektivnih-pogodb/colbar-europe-podatkovna-zbirka-kolektivnih-pogodb-slovenija
Spain https://tusalario.es/leys-laborales/base-de-datos-de-convenios-colectivos/colbar-europe-base-de-datos-de-convenios-colectivos-espana
Sweden https://lonecheck.se/arbetsratt/kollektivavtalsdatabasen/colbar-europe-databas-kollektivavtal-sverige
Turkey https://maascetveli.org/is-kanunu/toplu-is-sozlesmeleri-veritabani/colbar-europe-toplu-is-sozlesmeleri-veritabani-turkiye
UK https://wageindicator.co.uk/advice/collective-agreements-database/colbar-europe-collective-agreements-database-united-kingdom
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