negotiations about conditions of employment between an employer, a group of employers or their representatives, and employees' representatives such as a labor union with a...
Labor's Workplace Relations legislation, to be released later this year, is underpinned by a focus on collective enterprise bargaining --- with the requirement that employers bargain with employees in "good faith". But what exactly will this elusive good faith bargaining GFB requirement entail, and will employers, unions and workers embrace...
This article tests the effect of globalization on a specific labor right, which forms part of what are commonly regarded as core or fundamental labor standards. Employing a new measure of free association and collective bargaining rights, it finds that countries that are more open to trade have fewer rights...
The paper questions the predominant view on unemployment and wages in the European Union according to which high unemployment is primarily caused by labor market rigidities, i.e. social institutions and regulations which prevent "market-clearing" real wage levels and structures. Weakened labor union bargaining power and changing collective bargaining strategies have...
This paper examines product market regulation as an explanation for divergent US and continental European labor market performance. First, it shows that the choice of bargaining regime is crucial for the effect of product market competition on unemployment rates, being substantial under collective and negligible under individual bargaining. The results...
"The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia APESMA and the Information Technology Professional Association ITPA, formed for IT people who are members of APESMA, have been working to represent IT people and to cover them in various ways, by helping with contract arrangements and in collective bargaining situations....
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...
This document examines the levels and coverage of collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a process of decision-making between parties representing an employer and employee interest which implies the "negotiation and continuous application of an agreed set of rules to govern the substantive and procedural terms of the employment relationship". In...
Labor disputes are an intriguing feature of the landscape of industrialized economies. Economists have had a long-standing interest in formulating a framework for understanding and analyzing labor disputes. The development of non-cooperative bargaining theory provided the tools for a theory of collective bargaining and labor disputes. This paper provides a...
This issue includes articles with titles: Collective Bargaining Agreement May Be Rejected After Orderly Liquidation of Debtor’s Assets; Third Circuit Adopts Labor Standard to Determine Parent and Lender Liability For Warn Act Obligations of Subsidiary; Recoupment Is An Affirmative Defense And Is Lost If Not Pled In Lender Liability Action;...
The paper starts with a theoretical discussion of the extent to which individual employers can exercise discretion in the management of their employee's pay. It then examines the ways in which pay is used to secure productive effort. An analysis of the influence of trade unions leads on to an...
For employees and employers in the aerospace industry, collective bargaining represents an enormous challenge and opportunity. Collective bargaining serves two primary functions - it codifies past understandings and innovations, as well as establishing terms and conditions to guide future interactions. In the aerospace context, collective bargaining must remain constantly responsive...
Attempting mediation and arbitration before entering into a court dispute could save your business time and costly legal fees. However, the use of mediation and arbitration agreements outside the collective bargaining arena is open to much debate. This clause can be placed in an employee handbook, but it should also...
In this paper, panel data from 15 OECD countries are used to test the hypothesis that differences in monetary and labor market institutions explain a significant portion of the surprisingly diverse inflation and unemployment experiences among similarly developed economies. It observes that inflation has a hump-shaped relationship with central bank...
The article analyses the institutional basis and form of the employment contract using the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey. It assesses the extent to which collective bargaining still regulates pay and non-pay aspects of employment. The paper shows that while collective procedures have declined in importance, there has been an...
This paper builds and structurally estimates a complete information bargaining model of collective negotiation. For large firms, the assumption of complete information seems a sensible one, and it matches the collective bargaining environment better than the one provided by private information models. The specification of the model with players having...
This paper addresses the issue of law process pertaining to labor unions and collective bargains. The paper describes the activities of unions and reviews the research designed to measure the consequences of unionism. The context of this review is a developing country, which, by its very nature, cannot sustain as...
Appellate Division, Third Department Workers' Compensation Full Salary -- Employer Reimbursement Pawlewski v. Buffalo Board of Education 504131 Appealed from the Workers' Compensation Board Background: The claimant, a teacher in Buffalo...
BEACHWOOD, Ohio, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Aleris Light Gauge Products, a business unit of Aleris International, Inc., announced today that it will be permanently closing its aluminum rolling mill facility located in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, following an orderly shut down of all remaining activities at the facility....
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Commerce Clause Labor Law Local 377 v. 1864 Tenants Association 07-1155-cv Appealed from the Southern District of New York ...
Judge Approves Bid Protections For Sterlite ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. & MUMBAI, India -- The unions representing the workers of ASARCO LLC ("ASARCO"), and Sterlite Industries India Limited ("Sterlite") (NYSE:SLT), a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc and a party to an agreement to acquire substantially all assets of ASARCO, jointly...
