Mária Sedláková

Mária Sedláková is a research officer in the Working Life unit at Eurofound, specialising in comparative industrial relations, social dialogue and collective bargaining. She has expertise in content analysis of collective agreements. Her current work examines the role of social partners in governing national public employment services and social security institutions, as well as the role of social dialogue in labour migration. She also contributes to assessing the representativeness of EU-level sectoral social partners and facilitating the biennial Tripartite Exchange Seminars. Before joining Eurofound, Mária conducted research on collective bargaining in the Governance and Tripartism Department at the International Labour Organization in Geneva (2020–2022), following a period as a researcher at the Central European Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava (2013–2020). She holds an MA in Political Science with specialisation in Comparative European Politics from Central European University.