Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Hotar N. (Yürütücü), Çakır Ö., Seçer B., Güler C., Özdemir M. O., Eser D.
AB Destekli Diğer Projeler, 2024 - 2025
To support capacity building for collective bargaining in the services sector, BARSERVICE seeks to understand bargaining practices, challenges and opportunities for smart bargaining in services in 9 countries (6 EU Member States and 3 Candidate Countries, predominantly in Southern and Eastern Europe). Services constitute an important pillar of the European economy, yet little is known on bargaining therein. The changing economic and labour market context after Covid-19 has increased the urgency to extend knowledge and stimulate mutual learning of research and social dialogue, reflecting the priorities of the EC Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages. BARSERVICE maps bargaining practices, structure and power relations between unions and employers, the effective coverage of collective agreements, content of collective agreements and strategies to uncover and reduce undeclared work in services. The findings directly inform capacity building initiatives of social partners, mutual exchange, co-creation and interactive learning for social partners in those member states and candidate countries where bargaining in services and those where bargaining in services needs to be enhanced and strengthened. BARSERVICE focuses on four subsectors: social care, commerce, finance and publishing. It identifies the main challenges the sector faces in its trajectory for smart bargaining due to the: i) structural transformation of European economies and the importance of the service sector; ii) deterioration of working conditions in services in terms of low wages, unstable jobs and gender segregation; iii) lack of adequate space and margins of intervention for collective bargaining. A complementary aspect of the project is uncovering undeclared work, and strategies to mitigate it via decent working conditions and collective bargaining.