Download or read book Long term Union firm Contracts written by Geir B. Asheim and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Long term Union firm Contracts written by Jon Strand and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act written by United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Malfeasance in Long Term Employment Contracts written by Peter Joseph Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper argues that the structure of long-term employment contractsis influenced by the possibility that at least four different kinds of opportunistic behavior, or "malfeasance,"may occur in them. While the consequences of some of these problems have been examined in various papers,no single model has yet treated all four and thus brought out their essential symmetry. In particular, a certain kind of malfeasance by firms has apparently been universally overlooked-an oversight we try to remedy by developing a simple model here. Other advantages of the present model are that, unlike other models, it endogenizes the path of both sides of the contract -wages and effort -and has fairly intuitive first-order conditions. It also shows how earlier conclusions, such as the notion that wages are likely to rise faster than marginal products in equilibrium, are the results of less-than-general model specification, and has some interesting implications when applied to unionism: by proposing that unions act as workers'equivalent to certain contract enforcement policies like the disciplinary dismissals used by firms, it provides what is to the author's knowledge the only consistent theoretical explanation of the quite commonly observed U-shaped pattern of the union wage effect by age and shows how unions might play a positive efficiency role in this regard.

Download or read book The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Company union Agreement and Unilateral Pension Systems written by United States. Railroad Retirement Board and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rethinking Workplace Regulation written by Katherine V.W. Stone and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the middle third of the 20th century, workers in most industrialized countries secured a substantial measure of job security, whether through legislation, contract or social practice. This “standard employment contract,” as it was known, became the foundation of an impressive array of rights and entitlements, including social insurance and pensions, protection against unsociable working conditions, and the right to bargain collectively. Recent changes in technology and the global economy, however, have dramatically eroded this traditional form of employment. Employers now value flexibility over stability, and increasingly hire employees for short-term or temporary work. Many countries have also repealed labor laws, relaxed employee protections, and reduced state-provided benefits. As the old system of worker protection declines, how can labor regulation be improved to protect workers? In Rethinking Workplace Regulation, nineteen leading scholars from ten countries and half a dozen disciplines present a sweeping tour of the latest policy experiments across the world that attempt to balance worker security and the new flexible employment paradigm. Edited by noted socio-legal scholars Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs, Rethinking Workplace Regulation presents case studies on new forms of dispute resolution, job training programs, social insurance and collective representation that could serve as policy models in the contemporary industrialized world. The volume leads with an intriguing set of essays on legal attempts to update the employment contract. For example, Bruno Caruso reports on efforts in the European Union to “constitutionalize” employment and other contracts to better preserve protective principles for workers and to extend their legal impact. The volume then turns to the field of labor relations, where promising regulatory strategies have emerged. Sociologist Jelle Visser offers a fresh assessment of the Dutch version of the ‘flexicurity’ model, which attempts to balance the rise in nonstandard employment with improved social protection by indexing the minimum wage and strengthening rights of access to health insurance, pensions, and training. Sociologist Ida Regalia provides an engaging account of experimental local and regional “pacts” in Italy and France that allow several employers to share temporary workers, thereby providing workers job security within the group rather than with an individual firm. The volume also illustrates the power of governments to influence labor market institutions. Legal scholars John Howe and Michael Rawling discuss Australia's innovative legislation on supply chains that holds companies at the top of the supply chain responsible for employment law violations of their subcontractors. Contributors also analyze ways in which more general social policy is being renegotiated in light of the changing nature of work. Kendra Strauss, a geographer, offers a wide-ranging comparative analysis of pension systems and calls for a new model that offers “flexible pensions for flexible workers.” With its ambitious scope and broad inquiry, Rethinking Workplace Regulation illustrates the diverse innovations countries have developed to confront the policy challenges created by the changing nature of work. The experiments evaluated in this volume will provide inspiration and instruction for policymakers and advocates seeking to improve worker’s lives in this latest era of global capitalism.

Download or read book Wage Changes in Long term Labor Contracts written by Paul Chen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Firm Failure Rates on the Development and Nature of Implicit Long term Labor Contracts written by Michael Allen Curme and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unions and Investment in Intangible Capital written by Gabriele Cardullo and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although coverage of collective bargaining agreements has been declining for decades in most countries, it is still extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms' incentives to invest in capital, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk (irreversible), as in research-intensive sectors. Whether unions affect firms' investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages and employment, the quality of labor-management relations, the structure of corporate governance, and the existence of social pacts, among other factors.

Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Governance of the Workplace written by Kenneth Glenn Dau-Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last three decades, the American labor market has undergone a dramatic transformation that has heralded enormous change in the governance of the workplace. The development of new information technology and the rise of the global economy have decentralized firm decision-making and brought the market into the firm in ways that have not previously been experienced. These changes have made possible a new flexibility in many production methods which allows the vertical disintegration of firms, compartmentalization of production and the out-sourcing of work on the global market. Firms can now organize production on a global scale, coordinating parts production with suppliers from across the globe, assembling engines and transmissions in Asia, and doing final assembly in consumer countries, using subcontracted or temporary labor. As a result, the paradigmatic employment relationship in the United States, and other developed countries, has moved away from a long-term relationship governed by internal labor market rules within a centralized managerial structure, toward a short-term relationship governed by international labor markets in a decentralized managerial structure. This transformation in the labor market has contributed to the decline of union representation in America. The decline of hierarchical management and the role of internal labor market rules has robbed unions of some of their traditional function of representing employees within this hierarchy. Indeed, the new systems of decentralized management, employee involvement and subcontracting, combined with same very generous Supreme Court interpretations of the managerial and supervisory exemptions under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) have left from 31- 40% of employees uncovered by the Act. At the same time, the rise of the global labor market and the movement of manufacturing jobs overseas has undermined unions' bargaining power. American unions are representing less and less people, and bringing less clout to bear at the bargaining table. As a result, more and more American workers find themselves in a system of workplace governance based on individual contract within a context of common law rules and state and federal legislation rather than collective bargaining. Moreover, the development of the new information technology, the rise of the global economy and the corresponding decline of unions has lead employers to negotiate or impose different terms in individual employment contracts. With the decline of long-term employment, employers have sought to protect their investments in training and intellectual property by requiring covenants not to compete and follow-on clauses, while attaining greater flexibility in the employment relationship by reducing expectations of job tenure and deferred benefits. Additionally, as union representation has declined in the private sector, employee litigation has come to loom large in the minds of employers and they have turned to alternative methods of dispute resolution to avoid litigation and communicate with their employees even in the absence of a union. In particular, the practice of arbitration pursuant to individual employment contracts, or employment arbitration, has grown, encouraged by legislation and court decisions favoring the procedure. Finally, perhaps in response to the decline of employee rights in the new economic regime, in recent years there has been a modest erosion of the traditional common law doctrine of employment-at-will that undergirds the American system of individual contract. In the last three decades, courts in many jurisdictions have developed common law exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine for discharges in violation of public policy, public duty, implied contract and the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. At the same time, many state legislatures have passed statutes protecting employees from discharge in certain cases. These common law and statutory exceptions have circumscribed an outline of basic common law protection against the worst abuses of employer power in the system of individual contract. In this essay, we will set forth an empirical outline of the contemporary individual contract regime of workplace governance regime in the United States. Because of the breadth and diversity of the individual contract regime, this description cannot be exhaustive. We focus almost exclusively on what is known about the contents of individual contracts for employment and recent common law and statutory restrictions on the employment at-will doctrine. Where appropriate we will make comparisons with the employee rights and procedures that exist under workplace governance through collective bargaining. In this way we hope to provide a brief description of what is currently known about the contours of this regime and how it varies from the regime of collective bargaining in order to provide a basis for further research.

Download or read book The Role of Unions in the Twenty first Century written by Tito Boeri and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first-rate international scholars in the field explore the role that unions are likely to play in the changed economic environment of the new century. Questions discussed include: What will unions look like in the years to come? Which kind of interest groups will they represent? How important will be the broader political role of unions? To what extent do unions care about future generations? Part One documents a tendency towards greater decentralization in collective bargaining and declining union membership rates in most European countries. The process of decentralization may only be partly reversed by social pacts of the type that occurred in several EU countries in the run-up to EMU. Yet this type of co-ordination is likely to be increasingly unstable in a context where membership is falling, hence will inevitably require government intervention. Not all governments may wish to intervene in wage setting, however, as there are strong reasons to believe that such intervention could impose wage rigidities in some parts of the economy and lead to non-enforcement in other parts. Moreover, under EMU what matters is ultimately co-ordination of bargaining at the pan-European level rather than simply at the national level. Such higher-level, transnational co-ordination is not likely to occur for a long time to come because of the huge costs that it involves. Some transnational co-ordination may occur within multinational firms, however, as costs are likely to be much lower at this level. Part Two characterizes the intergenerational conflicts present within unions. Unions may be able to better respond to the needs of the unemployed without losing the support of current employees when they become involved in the running of unemployment benefit systems, as has been the case in those countries applying the so-called Ghent system. They may also succeed in making the system more efficient by, for example, contributing to the reduction of moral hazard problems associated with the provision of unemployment insurance. Unions are, however, unlikely to solve the latent conflict between their younger and older members in a context where the population is ageing, since they tend to preserve the status quo when it comes to cutting pension benefits in order to deal with demographic transition. The cost of these dynamic inefficiencies may be accepted by younger generations as long as an intergenerational contract can be enforced whereby unions guarantee that the status quo will be preserved, and are credible in their commitment. Unions could play a key role in this implicit intergenerational pact because they are long-lived agents—-certainly longer-lived than many governments—-but, under present conditions, this pact may be no longer credible.

Download or read book Labor management Contracts at Work written by Morris Stone and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book International Bibliography of Economics written by British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Download or read book Guidelines Innovative Collective Bargaining Contract Provisions written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: