COLBAR

Duration

April 1, 2019 - April 1, 2021

Target group

TBD

Location

Europe 28 plus 5 associate countries

Funder

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

EU-wide research on collective bargaining agreements to improve knowledge about industrial relations and social dialogue in Europe.

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

First 25 agreements coded for COLBAR project (07/23/2019)
COLBAR kicks off in Visegrad region (10/17/2019)
Mid-term COLBAR meeting in Amsterdam coming up (01/15/2020)
COLBAR: 142 Collective Agreements Uploaded in 2020 (04/08/2020)
COLBAR's Steady Progress: Only 96 Collective Agreements Left (07/08/2020)
Final Stretch: Only 42 Collective Agreements Left (10/07/2020)
Join the Final COLBAR Conference on 25 February (01/13/2021)
COLBAR is Wrapping Up, Thank You for Participating (04/07/2021)

Presentations

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Publications

Tijdens, K.G., Besamusca, J., Ceccon, D., Cetrulo, A., van Klaveren, M., Medas, G., & Szüdi, G. (2022). Comparing the Content of Collective Agreements across the European Union: Is Europe-wide Data Collection Feasible? E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, Volume 11 No. 02/2022. [EN]

Kick Off Meeting Amsterdam April 29/30 2019

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Kick Off Meeting Bratislava, October 9, 2019

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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

Report 3

Report 4

Report 5

Report 6

Report 7

Report 8

Report 9

Report 10

Report 11

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