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Session Overview
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025
11:30am
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1:00pm
Parallel Session 1.3: Special Session on Labor Market Outcomes of Collective Bargaining
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Janna Besamusca
 

Does the Night Shift still Pay? The Labor Market Outcomes of Collective Bargaining on (Premium) Pay for Working Time

Discussant(s): Lonnie Golden

 

Presentations of the Special Session

 

Developments in the Bargaining Agenda on Pay for Standard and Inconvenient Working Hours

Janna Besamusca

 

How Many Hours for a Living Wage? An Analysis of Gaps in Standard Work Week Length According to Laws, Collective Agreements and Practice

Kea Tijdens, Gabriele Medas, Iftikhar Ahmad

 

Do Collectively Bargained Pay Premiums for Non-standard Hours Raise Workers’ Wages in Practice?

Ferran Elias Moreno

 

Bargaining on Overtime to Address Wage Theft in Indonesia

Dela Feby, Lydia Hamid

2:30pm
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4:00pm
Parallel Session 2.3: Self-employed and Left to Fend for Yourself? The Role of Legal Protections and Collective (bargaining) Rights
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Christina Behrendt
 

Enabling Collective Bargaining: A Rights-Based Approach to Formalization

Allison Corkery, Marlese von Broembsen



Self-employed Workers’ Right to Collective Bargaining – The Fall of the EU Competition Law Barrier and all Legal Problems Solved?

Aljoša Polajžar



Extending Collective Bargaining and Social Dialogue to Excluded Workers: Lessons from India

Ashmita Sharma, Puja Mandal, Rohan Preece



Bargaining for all: Ensuring Labour Rights for Non-Employees through Social Dialogue – A Case Study from Brazil

Olivia de Quintana Figueiredo Pasqualeto

4:30pm
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6:00pm
Parallel Session 3.3: Wage Policies and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence and Policy Implications
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Sevane Ananian
 

Minimum Wage Setting and Adjustment in the Philippines: The Need to Align the Minimum Wage with the Living Wage

Emily Christi Armayan Cabegin



Examining the Applicability of ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the Context of Indian Labour Market

Kingshuk Sarkar, Rakhi Sehgal



Integrating Gender Perspectives in Living Wage Estimation: A Methodological Approach

Elva Lopez Mourelo, Kristen Sobeck



The Impact of Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining on Gender Gaps across European Countries

Arne Baumann, Clemens Ohlert



From Reactive to Risk-Orientated Controls: The Control of Minimum Wages in Germany

Gerhard Bosch, Frederic Huettenhoff

Date: Thursday, 03/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Parallel Session 4.3: Book Presentation on Social Law 4.0
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Olga Chesalina
 

Book Presentation “Social Law 4.0: Update: Innovative Approaches to Ensuring and Financing of Social Protection for Platform Workers in Europe”

Chair(s): Olga Chesalina

Discussant(s): Olga Chesalina

 

Presentations of the Special Session

 

Recent EU Developments Addressing Challenges of Platform Workers

Charlotte Bruynseraede, Paul Schoukens

 

Recent EU Developments of Taxation in the Platform Economy

Katerina Pantazatou

 

Recent Developments Concerning Access to Social Protection and its Financing in Sweden

Annamaria Westregård

 

Determination of the Social Protection Depending on the Employment Status of Platform Workers in the Netherlands

Gijsbert Vonk

 

Determination of the Social Protection Depending on the Employment Status of Platform Workers in Italy

Edoardo Ales

11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel Session 5.3: Special Session on Living Wages and Decent Work
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Paulien Osse
 

Establishing Fair Compensation: Living Wages, Dignity, and Decent Work in a Transforming Global Economy

Discussant(s): Damian Grimshaw

 

Presentations of the Special Session

 

Global Benchmarks for Decent Living: Measuring and Validating the Living Wage Against Minimum Wage and Other Adequacy Standards

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Nina Holičková, Nii Ashia Amanquarnor

 

Calculating Living Wage Levels via Quality of Life Indicators

Ines Meyer, Imaan Mohamed

 

Exploring Living Standards and Poverty in Suriname through Insights in Cost of Living and Wages

Tesora Ooft, Rosita Sobhie, Yolanda Grift

 

The Relationship between Cost of Living and Minimum Wage in Türkiye: An Analysis of Real Wage Trends

Ceyhun Güler

 

Living Tariff: The Case for Setting an Income-floor for Self-employed in the Gig Economy and Beyond

Martijn Arets, Marta Kahancová

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel Session 6.3: Remote Work: Implications for Labour Market Institutions and Work-life balance
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Christiane Kuptsch
 

Strengthening Labour Market Institutions through Leveraging Industry 4.0 and 5.0: Working from Home Example in Swiss MSEs

Alain Neher, Lucia Wuersch, Alfred Wong, Marc K. Peter



Transnational Remote Work: Rethinking the Concept of Workplace in a Digital Era

Camilla Martins dos Santos Benevides



Remote Work vs Part-Time Employment: A New Work-Family Balance?

Marina De Angelis, Thea Jansen

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Parallel Session 7.3: Sectoral Variations in Worker representation: Perspectives from Manufacturing, Banking, and E-Commerce
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Dora Sari
 

The Organisation of Warehouse Work and Social Dialogue in the UK’s E-Commerce Fulfilment Sector

Niall Cullinane, Conor McCabe, Tony Dundon, Debra Howcroft, Emma Hughes



Developing a Framework for Sustainable Trade Unionism Amidst the Evolving World of Work: Insights from Trade Unionists and Bank Employees in Zimbabwe

Regis Misheal Muchowe



International Framework Agreements and Plant-Level Bargaining: A Complementary Approach to Regulate Labor Market Transformation

Ligia Ramia Munerati

Date: Friday, 04/July/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Parallel Session 8.3: Improving Job Quality: The Role of Collective Bargaining and Labour Regulation
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Marlese Von Broembsen
 

Reimagining Job Quality in a Turbulent Era: Expanding Frameworks Amidst Transformation and Crisis

Agnieszka Piasna, Janine Leschke



How can Collective Agreements Improve Job Quality of Low-paid Workers? An Analysis of Collective Agreements in Selected Low-paid Sectors Across EU

Maria Sedlakova



The Influence of Collective Bargaining Agreements on Career Employment Quality of Dutch Employees on a Fixed-term Contract

Stef Bouwhuis, Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal



The Use of Historical Research for Development Cooperation and Training: Examples from the ILO Archive from Chile and Paraguay

Gerhard Reinecke

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel Session 10.3: Extending Social Protection to Workers in the Informal Economy: The Role of Policy Innovation and Social dialogue
Location: Room B (R1 temporary building)
Chair: Helmut Schwarzer
 

Social Dialogue for Social Protection: A Perspective from the Informal Economy in Southeast Asia

Aura Sevilla, Laura Corrigall Alfers



Social Inclusion, Social Security, and Vulnerable Self-Employed in the EU

Tania Bazzani



Minimum Time Necessary? Examining the Incompatibilities of Activation Policy Requirements using Time-use Data

Ceri Hughes


 
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