The BARCOM project on innovative tools for

bargaining support in the Commerce

sector - UPDATE

BRUSSELS,28thOctober2016

DanielaCeccon–DatabasemanagerinWageIndicatorFoundaEon/researcherattheUniversityof

Amsterdam

Reminder:WHATISTHEBARCOMPROJECTABOUT?

BARCOMprojectisaboutCOLLECTIVEBARGAININGintheCommercesectorinEuropeandDATA.

Reminder:WHOISWORKINGONTHEBARCOMPROJECT?

BARCOMprojectpartners:RESEARCH:•  UniversityofAmsterdam/AIAS(coordinator),Amsterdam•  CentralEuropeanLabourStudiesInsFtute(CELSI),BraFslava•  UniversityofEconomicsinBraFslava(EUBA),BraFslava

SOCIALPARTNERS•  EuroCommerce–TheRetail,WholesaleandInternaFonalTradeRepresentaFontotheEU•  UNIEuropa–UniGlobalUnion–Europe

Associatepartner(codinganddatabase)•  WageIndicatorFoundaFon(WIF),Amsterdam

Reminder:Whichisthefirstresultwewanttoobtain?

ThefirstREPORTwillbeacomparisonofthecontentof140collecEveagreementsfrom28countries(around5percountry).Morethan500variableswillbeanalysed.

HOWDOWEGETTHERE?STEP1CBAcollecEon(all,butespeciallyUNIEuropaandEuroCommerce):140agreements,around5percountry.STEP2AnnotaEon(CELSI/AIAS)usingWageIndicatorcodingformanddatabase.WageIndicatorisafoundaEonbasedintheNetherlandsandrunningwebsitesin85countries.ThroughournaEonalwebsites,wecollect,compareandshareinformaEonaboutWages,LabourLawandCareer.GOODNEWS:wealreadyhave47BARCOMagreementsinthesystem,plus13receivedandtobeuploaded!Youcanseethemhere:www.wageindicator.org/cbadatabase

CBAs arrangement in the websites - Spain

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How a CBA looks like when online

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REMINDER:ToannotatecollecEveagreementsweuseacodingsystem,i.e.alongonlineformwithquesEonsonthefollowingtopics:1.  GeneralCBAdata2.  JobEtles3.  Socialsecurityandpensions4.  Training5.  Employmentcontracts6.  Sickness&disability7.  Health&medicalassistance8.  Work/familybalancearrangements9.  Genderequalityissues10.  Wages11.  Workinghours12.  Coverage.

ForeveryquesEon,therelevantclauseisselected.

GOOD NEWS: Improvements in questions

• WeaddedquesEonsaboutdifferenttypesofcontracts(wenowlookalsoforspecialprovisionsforpart-Emeworkers,temporaryagencyworkers,apprenEces,minijobs/studentjobs)

• WeaddedquesEonsonSundaywork–howmanySundayshavetobeworkedinaayear,howmanyconsecuEveSundayscanbeworkedaccordingtotheCBA.

We already have some data, for example:

Morein:wageindicator-collecEve-agreements-database.silk.co

-  Austria:5-  Belgium:2-  Bulgaria:none-  CroaEa:none-  Cyprus:none-  CzechRepublic:3-  Denmark:2-  Estonia:3-  Finland:3-  France:1

-  Germany:3-  Greece:5-  Hungary:2-  Ireland:none-  Italy:5-  Latvia:none-  Lithuania:none-  Luxembourg:none- Malta:none-  Netherlands:5

-  Poland:none-  Portugal:6-  Romania:none-  Slovakia:2-  Slovenia:1-  Spain:8-  Sweden:3-  UnitedKingdom:1

Where are we? (Number of agreements per country)

CBACOLLECTION:•  Forthisproject,weneed140agreementsfromcommercesector–around5/country.Wehave60,sothismeansweneed80more.

• Wewouldlikethemtobe:-Sectoral(whenexistent)orcompanyagreements-  Inforce-  Complete- Withhighcoverage

Tomakethisprojectasuccess,weneedtoworktogether.Let’stryandcollecttheagreementsfromcountrieswherewehavenone!Pleasesendthemto:danielaceccon@wageindicator.orgoroffice@wageindicator.orgAndpleaseprovideyouremailaddress/phonenumber,sowecancontactyou.

THANKYOU!

Let’s collaborate!