This database provides access to the coded content of collective agreements from selected Member States and Norway. It presents an overview of the main topics and sub-topic covered in collective agreements beyond the topic of pay and compares how they have changed over time.
The database was developed by Eurofound as a part of the project ‘Collective bargaining beyond pay’ (2023-2025). It analyses and compares 94 collective agreements across three low-paid sectors (manufacture of food, leather, textiles and clothes; residential and social care; retail) in 11 EU Member States - Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia - and Norway. The research builds on Eurofound’s database of collective agreements related to low-paid workers, collected for the Agency’s pilot project on minimum wages and looks ‘beyond’ wage-setting at other topics featured in the collective agreements. Over 13,000 clauses were coded, analysed and grouped into key topics and sub-topics. The database shows how these topics have developed over time by comparing two versions of the same collective agreement, valid in 2015 (or closest year available) and in 2022 (or lates year available). Collective agreements were selected base on the sub-sample available in the Database on minimum wages for low-paid workers in collective agreements prior to its 2025 update.
The following experts at Eurofound can be contacted for questions relating to the database.
Mária Sedláková
Research officerMária Sedláková is onderzoeksmedewerker bij de afdeling Arbeidsleven van Eurofound. Ze is verantwoordelijk voor het opstellen van overzichtsrapporten voor sectorale representativiteitsstudies, het beheer en de kwaliteitscontrole van nationale rapportage over arbeidsverhoudingen, sociale dialoog en het arbeidsleven, en de ontwikkeling van een project over collectieve onderhandelingen die verder gaan dan beloning. Voordat ze bij Eurofound in dienst trad, werkte ze als technisch onderzoeker binnen de afdeling Governance and Tripartism van de Internationale Arbeidsorganisatie in Genève aan het Social Dialogue Flagship Report 2022. Ze werkte ook als onderzoeker aan het Central European Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava (2013-2020), waar ze zich richtte op sociale dialoog, collectieve onderhandelingen, arbeidsomstandigheden en arbeidssociologie. Maria heeft een MA in Politieke Wetenschappen met specialisatie in Vergelijkende Europese Politiek van de Central European University.
19 December 2025
