Negotiating flexibility : the role of the social partners and the State

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Ozaki, Muneto.

ISBN:

9789221108658

Yayım Bilgisi:

Geneva : ILO, 1999.

Fiziksel Tanım:

ix, 157 pages ; 24 cm

General Note:

"This book is a result of teamwork among members of ILO's Labour Law and Labour Relations Branch. The following were primarily responsible for the drafting: Youcef Ghellab, Anthony Honeybone, Peggy Kelly, Chang-Hee Lee, Andrés Marinakis, Alfred Pankert, Zafar Shaheed and Anne Trebilcock"--Page 4.

Konu Terimleri:

Hours of labor, Flexible.

Esnek çalışma.

Part-time employment.

Part-time çalışma.

Labor contract.

İş sözleşmeleri.

Collective bargaining.

Toplu pazarlık.

Added Author:

Ozaki, Muneto.

Added Corporate Author:

International Labour Office. Labour Law and Labour Relations Branch.

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This timely volume discusses the extent to which the labor market is becoming more flexible in response to competitive pressures and examines the pivotal roles of collective bargaining in introducing this flexibility.Providing detailed information from 22 country studies, the book covers industrialized and developing nations across Western Europe, North and South America, and Asia. It analyzes the extent of flexibility introduced in these labor markets, as well as the changing role of the state in industrial relations, and the positions of employers and trade unions on labor market flexibility. This comprehensive study reviews the move toward flexibility in four principal areas: contracts of employment, pay, working time, and work organization.While closely examining the means of achieving greater labor market flexibility, this highly topical book addresses the various ways in which flexibility has been introduced, including through legislative action, collective bargaining, individual contracts of employment, and unilateral employer decisions. The findings in this book reveal that collective bargaining is the most effective means of introducing flexibility, as it engages both employers and workers in the process of change.In addition, the volume examines the outcomes of negotiations on flexibility at the central, sectoral, and enterprise levels, paying special attention to the trade-offs that arise, particularly in the areas of job security, working time, and workers' lifestyles.

Author Notes

Muneto Ozaki is Chief of the Labour Law and Labour Relations Branch of the International Labor Office.

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This study provides an international survey of increasing flexibility in labor markets, focusing on four key areas: "contracts of employment; pay; working time; and work organization." In the first area, the study finds that labor flexibility requires legal relaxation over employment contracts to permit and encourage part-time, temporary, casual, and seasonal employment. In the pay area, flexibility requires pay for performance as well as the abolition of the minimum wage. Flexibility also requires that working time be annualized rather than computed by any shorter period and that work organization and structure be relaxed by adjustments in job descriptions. The primary means of introducing these changes are considered, including legislation, collective bargaining, individual contracts, unilateral action, or some combination. The authors suggest that the respective states (nations) actively intervene to create flexibility and that increasing globalization will force union participation in employer-desired flexibility. Finally, the study acknowledges that flexibility requires labor sacrifice, which must be compensated in some manner. The conclusion is that at present there is no universal international approach to dealing with these issues. Documentation is unfortunately sparse; a footnote indicates source material was prepared by one or two researchers in 22 countries, but not "referenced explicitly." The bibliography is relatively brief. Appropriate only for research collections. E. Owens; Western Washington University

List of acronyms	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
1 Types of flexibility	p. 5
Introduction	p. 5
Contracts of employment	p. 5
Flexible employment	p. 6
The spread of flexible employment	p. 7
The relative importance of different forms of flexible employment	p. 10
Gender, age and flexible employment	p. 13
Regulation of termination of employment	p. 13
Flexibility in employment and job tenure	p. 14
Pay flexibility	p. 16
The changing role and perceptions of the minimum wage	p. 16
Linking pay to performance	p. 19
Attenuating or breaking the link between wages and prices	p. 24
Working-time flexibility	p. 26
Annualization of working time	p. 26
Innovations in daily and weekly working hours	p. 28
New methods of compensating overtime	p. 31
Work organization flexibility	p. 33
Overcoming occupational demarcations through skill enhancement	p. 36
Teamwork	p. 40
2 Means of introducing flexibility	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
Legislation	p. 47
Nature and function	p. 47
How rules fit together: The hierarchy of legal norms	p. 50
Prescriptive or framework legislation	p. 52
Collective bargaining	p. 55
Collective agreements	p. 55
The interplay between collective bargaining and legislation	p. 57
Individual contracts of employment	p. 60
Existence of a contract of employment	p. 60
The contract of employment as an instrument for introducing flexibility	p. 62
Employers' unilateral action	p. 65
3 The role of the State and the bargaining structure	p. 67
Introduction	p. 67
Industrialized countries with "voluntarist" industrial relations	p. 68
European countries with a tradition of social partnership	p. 72
The role of the State	p. 73
The level of collective bargaining	p. 76
The role of the State and the bargaining structure in Central and Latin America	p. 82
The role of the State and the bargaining structure in Asia	p. 84
Concluding remarks	p. 87
4 The positions of the social partners on labour market flexibility	p. 89
Introduction	p. 89
Employers' positions	p. 90
Employment flexibility	p. 91
Wage flexibility	p. 93
Working-time flexibility	p. 94
Work organization and skill formation	p. 96
Trade unions' positions	p. 99
Employment flexibility	p. 100
Wage flexibility	p. 102
Working-time flexibility	p. 104
Work organization	p. 105
Factors affecting union policy	p. 108
The growing role of works councils, and how unions view it	p. 111
Concluding remarks	p. 113
5 Outcomes of negotiations over flexibility	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Some basic issues concerning trade-offs in flexibility bargaining	p. 116
Trade-offs at levels above the enterprise	p. 119
Trade-offs at the central level	p. 119
Trade-offs at the sectoral level	p. 124
Trade-offs at the enterprise level	p. 126
Trade-offs over job security	p. 126
Wage restraint for job security	p. 127
Skill flexibility for job security	p. 128
Contingent work for job security	p. 128
Cuts in working time for job security	p. 129
Trade-offs over redundancy alternatives	p. 130
Employee ownership for securing jobs	p. 130
Shorter hours to save jobs	p. 132
Compensation cuts or freezes for minimizing lay-offs	p. 133
Trade-offs over working time	p. 134
Annualized hours for shorter working time	p. 134
Flexible hours for added time off	p. 136
Shift work for higher wages	p. 136
Improved attendance for shorter hours	p. 137
Trade-offs over workers' lifestyles	p. 137
Flexible hours for shorter hours	p. 138
Part-time work for more family time	p. 138
Compressed schedules for greater leave time	p. 139
Telecommuting for avoiding relocation	p. 140
Trade-offs in other areas	p. 140
Shorter hours to expand employment	p. 142
Concluding remarks	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 151

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