Collective Agreement in UK Law
- TRADE UNION DENSITY AND COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT PATTERNS IN BRITAIN*
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Retirement, Collective Agreement, and Age Discrimination: Implications for the Higher Education Sector in the UK
This article explores the possible impact of the removal of the default retirement age of 65 on the Higher Education sector as an employer. It considers the findings from empirical research to high...
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Unveiling the legal effect of collective agreements in China
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the actual legal effect of collective agreements by focusing on the litigation regarding the implementation of collective agreements in China where .........’s courts nationwide from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2018 provide the primary empirical data.The intrinsic features of collective agreement disputes are investigated to delineate different sorts oftheoretically presumed legal effect, namely contractual, normative and other (if any). A ......
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Rent‐Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data
Using Belgian linked employer–employee data, we examine how collective bargaining arrangements affect the relationship between firms' profitability and individual wages via rent‐sharing. In industr......... Using Belgian linked employer–employee data, we examine how collective bargaining arrangements affect the relationship between firms’ ...agreement. Thus, industry-wide contracts that are not complemented by a firm-level ......
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Personnel and Welfare: The Case of the Problem Drinker at Work
Recent developments in alcohol policies provide tangible signs that major strands of personnel policy are beginning to merge (concern for welfare, corporate efficiency and joint determination throu......... survey, two-thirds of the policies were introduced with union agreement. Unions exist to protect their members, and negotiations with management ... welfare integration into a form of human resource management by collective agreement. This potential line of development for the future work of ......
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The Impact of Collective Agreements on Working Time in Denmark
This article examines the impact of collective agreements on the working time patterns of private‐sector employees in Denmark. The expected effect would be a reduction in working hours and overtime.........While in some areas there is a near total spillover of rules from collective agreements (the collective agreement has become a social norm), in others there is a clear `union mark-down', and in still others collective agreements seem to make no impact at all. 1. ......
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Technological Change and Collective Bargaining in Canada
The scope and extent of collective bargaining over technological change in Canada is analysed. The public policy context in Canada is compared with that of the United States. Data on collective agr.........While the former set of issues can be discussed in terms of the actual prevalence of collective agreement provisions, the latter group can only be addressed in terms of labour's agenda for bargaining, since the issues are so new that negotiated provisions ......
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Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany
This paper is the first study to investigate the impact of workplace representation on plant closings in Germany, using data from a nationally representative establishment panel. Across all establi.........There is the contrary sugg estion that industry-wide collective bargaining plays a neutral to benign role.As for the interaction between ... they have a wor ks council and are not covered by a collectiv e agreement. 1. Introduction Analysis of the effect of unions on plant closure has ......
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The uncertain road to partnership. An action research perspective on “new industrial relations” in the UK offshore oil industry
This paper examines the problems involved in developing collective bargaining in the traditionally non‐union environment of the strategically important UK offshore oil industry. In doing so it prov......... This paper examines the problems involved in developing collective bargaining in thetraditionally non-union environment of the strategically ..., the paper documents the attemptto establish a collective agreement and a partnership approach to industrial relations in the drillingsector ......
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Training and Labour Market Flexibility: Is There a Trade‐off?
This paper explores the nexus between work‐related training and labour market ‘flexibility’ (which we proxy by contract type, part‐time employment and lack of union coverage), using the first five ........., who are working part-time or are not covered by a union collective agreemen t, are significantly less likely to be involved in any ..., in part-time employment or not covered by a union collective agreement are significantly less likely to be involved in any work-related training ......
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