Europe
With support from the European Commission, EPSU has commissioned research on the impact of pay cuts across Europe. The report will focus on Romania, Spain, Ireland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary and Greece and will be discussed on the first morning of the conference on 7 December.
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The International Labour Organisation has published a briefing on collective bargaining covering 75 countries including many European nations. The report looks at long-term trends and some of the negative developments since the economic crisis. However, it also notes how levels of collective bargaining have held up in some countries partly as a result of an enabling legal environment based on measures to extend collective agreements, for example. Read more at < ILO (EN)
The Eurofound research agency has published a new report that analyses how gender pay audits have been implemented in four countries - Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. It is based on company-level gender pay reports and reveals that there have been mixed results in terms of compliance, in the initial phase. It also highlights room for improvement in engaging employee representatives and in raising employees’ awareness.
A new report from the Eurofound research agency analyses trends in collectively negotiated wages compared to productivity over the 2000-2017 period. The report says that: "From an employee perspective...applying harmonised consumer prices, wages per employee have grown more slowly than productivity since the beginning of the millennium and the gap has been widening, despite hourly wages having been more aligned." It adds that: "In most countries with available data (14 EU Member States), there has been a positive wage drift since the early 2000s, indicating that actual wages have grown more