What do Tyco Services, Huatai Group, Ford Malaysia, L'Oreal Argentina, Barclay's Bank of Ghana and The Ethical Investment Company of Australia all have in common? Each is among the 630 companies the United Nations Global Compact has booted off of its worldwide list of participants for failure to submit 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...
With skill shortages hitting many sectors of the workplace, it's no wonder that managers are having difficulty expanding their teams. But who says talent has to come from the outside? Workforce Management recently profiled one company that implemented an innovative and successful effort to grow its own talent instead. ...
For the fifth year in a row, the federal limit on H-1B visas has been reached before the government's fiscal year even begins. This time, the cap was reached nearly six months before the federal 2009 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. It took only one week...
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This is an extremely complicated issue, and it's been around for years, but let's talk some common sense about H-1B visas. Bill Gates went before Congress this week to try to make it easier for companies to hire foreign tech workers, using this visa status. Essentially, companies can bring in...
The Labor Relations Coordinator job description template includes the following job summary: To improve relations between workers or union representatives and lower level management personnel by discussing problems, and analyzing and resolving situations directly, if possible, without the necessity of formal grievance procedures. Additional information available includes essential job functions,...
The Industrial Engineer A job description template includes the following job summary: To establish labor standards and to resolve questions relating to job utilization and performance. To estimate labor standards for specific products, and assist the engineering department management to evaluate capital equipment requests. Also works on studies relating to...
While Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are lobbying Congress to increase the number of H-1B temporary worker visas so they can meet what they describe as a shortage of skilled technology workers, many skilled technology workers who are already in the U.S. are reporting having trouble finding jobs. InformationWeek recently explored...
Never underestimate the value of employee attendance and time management software particularly when it involves employee/labor relations. People make mistakes; that's why there are erasers on pencils. Ever hear that phrase before? Its one hundred percent true. Sometimes the person making the error has to PROVE that the error was...
When U.S. recruiters go out to buy technical talent, they shop in domestic markets that are highly protected by restrictive immigration policies, voluminous and ever-changing rules and a cumbersome visa process. The prime example of this regulatory nightmare is the H-1B visa program. Because bringing in an employee under an...
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...
A Report of the Working Group of the Vice Ministers Responsible for Trade and Labor in the Countries of Central America and the Dominican Republic. This report papers identifies six key areas of focus for actions to improve workers? rights, enhance capacity and promote a broader culture of compliance with...
On February 1, 2005, final regulations to implement a new human resources management system for the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") were published. The regulations provide for the organization of the new personnel system, describing, among other topics, the use of pay bands, how jobs will be evaluated, and how...
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...
In the classic company the model of wage labor under a standard labor contract still dominates, while in the modern network/virtual company contracts for services is becoming a dominant way of utilization of labor. Between these two models many hybrid employment relations are developing, combining elements of both. The hybridization...
Public Employees Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, earned an impressive 23.3 percent return in 2003. Imagine how much better it might have done if it paid more attention to Asia. In February 2002, Calpers pulled out of stocks in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, citing concerns about corporate governance,...
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...
This paper examines patterns of compliance with federal minimum wage laws in the U.S. apparel industry and analyzes the impact of new methods of intervention designed to improve regulatory performance. Specifically, in 1996, the U.S. Department of Labor began to use pressure arising from its statutory ability to interrupt the...
The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One reason is the belief that trade and capital flows have massive effects on the labor market - either positive, per the claims of international financial institutions and free trade enthusiasts, or...
