International Employment Relations Review‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 2‚ 2002 49 WHAT IS EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS? Peter Slade University of the Sunshine Coast This article examines the question as to whether or not a new paradigm of employment relations is emerging. In doing so‚ it examines the nature of ideologies‚ and argues that the specific adoption of pluralism and the joining of Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management as a prerequisite to the evolution of a new field of enquiry is misplaced. It
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Overseas employment and its effects By Randy David Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 00:19:00 07/18/2009 Filed Under: Overseas Employment ‚ Remittances ‚ Migration ‚Family The business pages of both the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star carried almost identical headlines the other day. ?Remittances surged to $1.48B in May‚? said the Inquirer. ?OFW remittances hit record high in May‚? said The Star. One cannot miss the celebratory tone in which Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
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trade is a legal device to attempt to hold the balance between two competing factors - an employee’s freedom to take employment as and when he wishes‚ and an employer’s interest in preserving certain aspects of his business. Both factors are important‚ and indeed the law will protect the employer if necessary by the implication of the term fidelity in the contract of employment thereby restraining the employee inter alia from divulging confidential information. However‚ the employer may wish
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"In every workplace‚ there exists an invisible frontier of control‚ reducing some of the formal powers of the employer: a frontier which is defined and redefined in a continuous process of pressure and counter pressure‚ conflict and accommodation‚ overt and tacit struggle" (Hyman‚ 1975‚ p26). Discuss the responses of employees‚ unions and employers to this frontier of control ’‚ drawing on both historical and contemporary examples to illustrate your answer. Synopsis The aim of this paper is
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Nestlé - The Employment Relationship TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 What is the employment relationship? 3 The importance of the employment relationship 4 Changes affecting the employment relationship 4.1 HRM vs. IR (Pluralist vs. Unitarist) 4.2 Globalization 4.3 Advances in Technology 4.4 Diverse Workforce 4.5 Restructuring and the Decline of manufacturing 4.6 Trade unions decline and marginalization 4.7
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Terms and Conditions of Employment Under the Employment Rights Act 1996‚ all employees regardless of the hours they work should receive a written statement from their employer within two months of starting work. This statement known as the terms and conditions of employment contains key particulars of the job and the rights and duties of the employee and employer in terms of the following (* must be included in one principle document): Job Description & Specification These are general and
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to the definition of employment‚ she is called an unpaid family worker‚ usually a person who works without pay in an economic enterprise operated by a related person living in the same household. This group includes individuals who worked without pay for 15 hours or more per week in a family-owned enterprise. That’s why Lisa is counted as employed. Regarding unpaid family workers‚ they comprise a relatively small proportion of total employment‚ because almost all employment population is employed
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Executive Employment Agreement Executive Employment Agreement dated March 1‚ 2013‚ is between Healthy Hearts Inc.‚ a Michigan corporation (the “Employer”) and Adel Administrator (the “Employee”). Employer wishes to employ Employee and Employee wishes to work for the Employer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Accordingly‚ the parties agree as follows: Article 1. Definitions 1.1 Definitions. As used in this Agreement‚ the following terms have the meanings set forth
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towards disaggregated analysis is an important contribution. The paper begins by reviewing the conventional statistics of the United States labor market during the Great Depression and the paradigms to explain them. It then turns to recent studies of employment and unemployment using disaggregated data of various types. The paper concludes with discussions of research on other aspects of labor markets in the 1930s and on a promising source of microdata for future work. My analysis is confined to research
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Women employment in Bangladesh It is well known that women’s employment in South Asia is lower than in any other part of the world except perhaps the Middle East. The women’s employment rates in Bangladesh despite increase over the last decade is the increase in younger women’s employment‚ the low opportunity for employment for poor women and the sharp rise in women reporting unpaid work. But opportunities for educated women are increasing and combined with the increase in educational attainment
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