Topic - Wages and Collective Bargaining - The Middle East

Main Information on Collective Bargaining

The information concerning the Middle East has been collected via a questionnaire to the different countries' union organizations. This part contains an overview of the main features of the collective bargaining system of the different countries. Each country link is the union's answer to the questionnaire on the following information:

• Trade union structure: density, fragmentation, links to political party, peak bodies, umbrella organisation, influential trade unions, organisation level.
• Employers' organisations: dominating level, links to the state, coordination, major employer organisation.
• Collective bargaining: coverage, level, duration and content of agreements.
• Wage setting systems: GDP, wage inequality, linkage to productivity and inflation and mechanisms.

Since information on this is not yet complete, you are invited to contribute by filling the questionnaire about countries not yet in the regional list.

COUNTRY INFORMATION
Pakistan

Research and Practical Papers on the Current Discussion and Developments

This part contains a compilation of different papers on the subject of collective bargaining.

ANALYSIS

Trade Union Country Report Pakistan (Abdul Qadir, FES, Islamabad, Dec 02)

Further Reading and Links

Looking for information on collective bargaining at the Internet can sometimes be very time consuming. Therefore, this part gives you an overview on key websites and short information of what can be found there.

Links to come...