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Promoting gender equality through collective bargaining: We cannot rely on legislation to achieve and protect equality issues. Collective bargaining is a much more effective mechanism for ensuring that these rights exist. Although there have been major achievements made in equality issues in the past, downsizing and reorganization are taking a toll, impacting on the lives of...; Tags: Labor relations, collective bargaining, downsizing, women, worker; White papers 2003-01-01
Guidelines for Creating a Culture of Gender Equality in the Private Sector: The private sector has an important contribution to make towards the achievement of gender equality. The increased participation of women in the labour market and economy in general is a positive, for developing a strong and broad skills base for the economy. The challenge is to ensure this leads to...; Tags: Gender and diversity, women, analysis; White papers 2002-01-01
Civitas Online Report: Response to the White Paper, Fairness for All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights: The White Paper, Fairness For All, announces that, by 2006, the government intends to do away with all existing statutory bodies currently charged with promoting group equality in the workplace. The Commission for Racial Equality, the Equal Opportunities Commission, and the Disabilities Rights Commission are all due to go. The...; Tags: Body, Commission, Government, Sales Force Management, Vertical Industries, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2004-08-24
Government And Pay And Employment Equity: The Role Of The State In Achieving Equity In The Workplace: There are a variety of tools by which the state can intervene in the workplace to promote equality both in terms of pay and more generally. The most obvious of these consists of direct legislative intervention in the form of a prohibition on discrimination and/or - in more advanced equality...; Tags: Workplace, Equity, Obligation, King, Government, Vertical Industries, Investment, Financial Services, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2004-06-28
Equality or 'Transparency Tyranny'?: The Workplace Law Network explains how the draft Equality Bill, ‘Framework for a Fairer Future', could affect UK employers and their teams. It aims to "de-clutter" complex discrimination laws and bring them together under the heading of 'Equality Duty'. It also zeroes in on weak spots in...; Tags: Job, Employer, Workplace Law Network, Recruitment & Selection, Gender And Diversity, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2008-06-26

Promoting Gender Equality: Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such...; Tags: Gender and diversity, women; White papers 2003-01-01
The issues and guidelines for gender equality bargaining: Gender equality bargaining can be a powerful mechanism through which unions can either reinforce existing rights under legislation or previous collective agreements through devising practical methods of implementation, or extend workplace rights on issues, which have traditionally, been ignored. Unions may strategically choose which issues they will present for negotiations....; Tags: workplace, negotiation, agreement; White papers 2001-10-01
Concepts of Fairness in the Global Trading System: How are to assess the fairness of the global trading system as embodied in the GATT/WTO? In this paper, one first discusses why fairness is a condition of the agreements among governments that form the global trading system. This paper then suggests that fairness can best be considered within the...; Tags: Vertical industries, University of Michigan, fairness, GATT, equity, government, agreement; White papers 2005-10-09
On The Impact Of Inequality On Productivity Growth In The Short And Long Term: A Synthesis: A common view amongst economists is that a trade-off exists between equity and efficiency - greater equality of income can only be bought at the cost of low productivity. This paper Surveys the nowadays theoretical and empirical literature surrounding this ongoing debate and asks whether these apparently conflicting views are...; Tags: equity, income, survey; White papers 2003-02-03
Just Say No to Social Work: Many years ago, employers reconciled themselves to the idea that they ought to support workers financially through their old age, to pay them when they were sick, and not to put them at unnecessary risk of injury. More recently they have come to terms with the obligation to help workers...; Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Worker; White papers 2004-10-05
Pre Qualification Evaluation Form: This is a template for pre qualification evaluation form with information like: background information of an organization; financial status; service operation & quality; business probity; health and safety; general equality information - all vendors; and working environment.; Tags: health care, financial, environment; Tools & templates 2007-09-12
What Role Does Fairness Play in the Workplace?: Being treated fairly is a concern for each and everyone. An organization can't create a constant state of equality, but leadership has profound control over what and how information is shared. By making conscious steps toward justice, leaders can reduce the possibility that employees will feel that they're not being...; Tags: workplace, leadership, leader, environment; White papers 2004-11-23
Selective Memoization: This white paper presents a framework for applying memoization selectively. The framework provides programmer control over equality, space usage, and identification of precise dependences so that memoization can be applied according to the needs of an application. The paper describes the framework in the context of a functional language and...; Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, programmer; White papers 2004-08-12
Integrate Benefits for Workers' Well-Being: Improving and maintaining employees' health should be the key issue for employers that want to combine short- and long-term disability, occupational and non-occupational insurance providers. An added advantage to integrating providers is that all disability and leave cases are handled similarly. This creates an atmosphere of equality. Initially, supervisors who...; Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), HR.com, disability, Americans with Disabilities Act, worker, supervisor, insurance, health care, benefit; White papers 2003-01-17
Reforming Lives? Progressivism, Leadership and Educational Change: The paper explores educational reform and social equality issues: how education may serve as leverage for some to live their lives as agents of change which is a change for themselves, for children and for society at large. The choice of words and punctuation in the conference title signals the...; Tags: education, agent, leadership; White papers 2001-12-22
When Equality Isn't A Virtue: Genuine "mergers of equals" are rare, but successes in that genre are even rarer. For any acquisition to be successful, hard decisions about whom stays and who goes whom leads and who follows, must be made quickly. The market typically gives merged companies two to three years to realize the...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, CFO Publishing Corp., merger, shareholder, acquisition; Case studies 2001-06-01
The Political Divide in Health Care: A Liberal Perspective: U.S. health policy has been consumed by an ideological divide between conservative and liberal viewpoints. The liberal philosophy, based on both moral principles and utilitarian arguments, attempts to balance the needs of the individual with the concerns of the entire population. Elements of the liberal health care perspective include a...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Project HOPE, divide, health care, financing, insurance; White papers 2005-12-01
Fundamentals of Family Business Compensation: Compensation is, at best, a difficult and highly emotional subject. Like it or not, one of the most prevalent measures of success used in our society is how much money one makes. In that atmosphere, even the most sound, well thought through compensation decisions made - and actions taken -...; Tags: Benefits, compensation, leader; White papers 2003-01-01
Uniqueness of the Fair Premium for Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts: This paper analyzes a contract with periodic premium payments. At each premium date the insurance company invests a certain fraction of the premium in a specific mutual fund. The guaranteed amount will be a function of time and the periodic premium. The bonus has similarities to an Asian option with...; Tags: Operational accounting, payment, mutual fund, insurance, asset, benefit; White papers 2003-07-17
Disability Employment Policies Within the Civil Service: The paper is focused on the disability employment policies within the civil service. Specific case studies from Canada, Germany, Norway and United Kingdom have been reviewed alongside with strategies to incorporate disabled persons into the mainstream workforce and costs associated with this. The underlying principle of policies currently promoted by...; Tags: disability, workforce, strategy; White papers 2001-05-23