T2-WS5 :Workshop: Relaunching collective bargaining coverage in outsourced activities

Employment relations in the facility management business

Alejandro Godino, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Maarten Keune, University of Amsterdam
Oscar Molina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Nöelle Payton, University of Amsterdam

This paper examines the implications that the expansion of Facility Management business has on the coverage of collective bargaining and the transformation of employment relations. For this purpose, the paper investigates the regulatory framework and the social actors’ strategies in relation to the expansion of this business in six European countries that are representative of different models of industrial relations, but also illustrative of different development stages of the Facility Management business: France, Italy, Netherland, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom.

An analysis of outsourcing in the adult home care and prison service sector Chair: Ingrid Artus

Bernd Brandl, Durham University Business School
Anne Kildunne, University of York

In this paper we analyse outsourcing in the UK and its’ consequences for the coverage of employees by a collective agreement in two sectors, prisons and adult social care. The selected sectors are typically affected and characterized by outsourcing activities and exemplify the phenomenon well and thus help us to understand how collective bargaining in the UK has been affected by outsourcing and how social partners address and confront its decline.

A comparative analysis in cleaning activity in three EU countries

Marcello Pedaci, University of Teramo
Carmela Guarascio, University of Calabria
Joan Rodriguez Soler, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Maarten Keune, University of Amsterdam
Nöelle Payton, University of Amsterdam

This paper focuses on the widespread outsourcing of industrial cleaning, often considered an emblematic case of «bottom-end service work».  Today, the majority of cleaners are employed by specialised providers. The paper analyses the effects of this outsourcing on collective bargaining coverage, earnings, inequality and conflicts. It also discusses the capacity of existing institutions to deal with these phenomena and as well as the strategies deployed by social partners to address them. The paper develops a comparative analysis in three EU countries (Italy, France and the Netherlands), where multi-employer collective bargaining has traditionally been strong, with a view to identify differences and similarities in effects of outsourcing and solutions developed by social partners.

Oscar Molina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Alejandro Godino, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

In this paper, we combine sources to approach the tendency and the format of outsourcing regarding industrial relations system (ICTWSS - Database on Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts), flexibility in labor regulation (OECD indicators of employment protection legislation) and sectoral and company characteristics, comparing as well data from 2004, 2009 and 2013. This analysis is complemented with an in-depth study of regulatory frameworks and labor market trends in relation to outsourcing practices in six European countries representatives of different models of industrial relations: France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Poland and United Kingdom.