Collective bargaining coverage is increasingly under pressure. It is challenged by several phenomena, including restructurings of (global) value chains, outsourcing practices, workplaces fragmentation and diffusion of non-standard forms of employment. The RECOVER project aims to analyse collective bargaining coverage in outsourced services with a view to identify coverage problems, gaps, conflicts – across different groups of workers. In Italy the researchers focused on two different outsourced activities, with high and low-qualified occupations, specifically: 1) cleaning services and 2) ICT services. In addition, a case study was conducted on a facility management company, operating in the national territory.
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