Europäischer Tarifbericht des WSI – 2019 /2020: Tarifpolitik in Zeiten der Corona-Pandemie

Malte Lübker

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2020, vol. 73, issue 4, 266-277

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the context for collective bargaining in Europe: while wages continued their moderate upward trajectory during 2019 and contributed to domestic demand, the economies of the European Union face an unprecedented contraction in the current year. This presents unfavourable conditions for increases in collectively agreed pay, and has led to a refocussing of collective bargaining agreements on securing employment and incomes. As the WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2019 /20 argues, such agreements can contribute towards stabilising expectations and hence help avoiding a downward spiral. However, the decentralisation of collective bargaining and the erosion of coverage have undermined the governance capacity of collective bargaining systems in many European countries. Hence, they enter the current crisis with much weaker preconditions for successful crisis management than was the case in 2008 /09.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2020-4-266

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