Collective Bargaining Coverage in Greece: A Fragile Predominance of the Sector Level

This study examines collective bargaining coverage in Greece in 2024, analyzing its distribution across economic sectors and enterprise size classes. The empirical analysis draws primarily on administrative data. Through a content analysis of 1118 enterprise and sectoral/occupational collective agreements, this study calculates the collective bargaining coverage rate at the national, sectoral, and enterprise levels. The findings indicate that the coverage rate in Greece is among the lowest in the European Union. The results further reveal a fragile predominance of sectoral bargaining over enterprise-level bargaining within a generally weak collective bargaining system, and an uneven distribution of coverage by collective agreements across different economic sectors and enterprise sizes.