Abstract
This brief reviews how the social partners – employers' and workers’ organizations – have engaged with each other in bipartite social dialogue, including collective bargaining, in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. It presents a number of responses, organized by subject that illustrate how bipartite dialogue was used to mitigate the impact of the crisis. It outlines some critical considerations confirmed by the current experiences to bear in mind when fostering the role of bipartite social dialogue.