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The WageIndicator Collective Agreements Database

Gabriele Medas & Daniela Ceccon

WageIndicator Foundation

3 September 2021

European Commission. Directorate-General for Employment. Social Affairs and Inclusion - VS/2021/01901

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  • Established in 2012
  • Currently more than 1600 CBAs from 67 countries all over the world
  • Agreements are collected, annotated (coding scheme with around 750 variables) and published in WageIndicator national websites, all in national languages
  • 9 main macro-topics

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The WageIndicator Collective Agreements Database in numbers

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THE PROCESS OF ANNOTATION

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JPEG / PDF / Scanned document

Word document

OCR software

Html navigable text

Html editor

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The text is uploaded in WageIndicator system, called Cobra.

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Questions are answered and clauses are selected about the following 9 topics.

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THE TOPICS CODED IN COBRA

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Social security and pensions

Training / apprenticeship

Individual employment contracts / job security

Sickness and disability

Health and medical assistance

Work-life balance arrangements

Equality and/or violence in the workplace

Wages

Working hours, schedules, holidays and days of leave

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COBRA ANNOTATION SYSTEM:

https://cobra.wageindicator.org

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HOW CBAS LOOK WHEN ONLINE:

https://wageindicator.org/cbadatabase

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THE COMPARISON TOOL:

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THE COMPARISON TOOL:

https://tusalario.es/leys-laborales/base-de-datos-de-convenios-colectivos/compare-clauses

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What will be annotated for BARCOVID?

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50 Dutch CBAs renewals* (we have 101). Collection and annotation

50 Spanish CBAs renewals (we have 114). Collection and annotation

50 Italian CBAs renewals (we have 102 ). Collection and annotation

A total of 200 CBAs between France and Austria: 100 before COVID and 100 after COVID

A total of 50 CBAs renewals for the rest of all the other EU 27 countries

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*A CBA renewal is a CBA signed after COVID-19 impact in Europe (May 2020 onwards)

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THANK YOU!

gabrielemedas@wageindicator.org

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European Commission. Directorate-General for Employment. Social Affairs and Inclusion - VS/2021/019010

Gabriele Medas