Employees Covered by Collective Bargaining Agreements (OI3703)

This metric is intended to capture the number of an organization's total employees who are protected by collective bargaining agreements. It may be divided by the total number of employees (Permanent Employees: Total [OI8869] + Temporary Employees [OI9028]) to capture the percentage (× 100) of all employees protected by collective bargaining agreements.

Collective bargaining is defined as "all negotiations which take place between one or more employers or employers' organizations, on the one hand, and one or more workers' organizations (trade unions), on the other, for determining working conditions and terms of employment or for regulating relations between employers and workers. Collective agreements can be at the level of the organization; at the industry level, in countries where that is the practice; or at both. Collective agreements can cover specific groups of workers; for example, those performing a specific activity or working at a specific location. This definition is based on the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 154, ‘Collective Bargaining Convention’, 1981" (GRI Disclosure 402-1).

Organizations should note whether all employees are able to participate in collective bargaining agreements and, if not, which employees are unable to participate.

This metric may help describe the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. The selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.