Author: Canadian Industrial Relations Association. Meeting
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763778815
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264713352
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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The Brussels-Capital Region has witnessed significant improvements in its labour market over the past decade. Local job creation has been driven by ample opportunities for highly-skilled workers whom the Brussels-Capital Region attracts from its surrounding regions, the European Union, and beyond.

Author: Pierre Laroque
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136770763
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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First Published in 1983. Social problems have assumed a growing importance in France, as in all developed countries, especially since the end of the last century. While traditional early nineteenth century liberalism denied the existence of social problems as such, believing the greatest possible economic freedom to be the sole solution to all evils, the emphasis is still placed more and more insistently on the need for a definite and concerted welfare effort, to increase the material well-being of individuals and families. Since the second edition of this book was published in 1962, legislation and welfare services, and social reality itself have changed as much through circumstances as through political and economic evolution. It follows that the present edition of this book is, in fact, an almost wholly new book. It attempts to present a comprehensive view of French social life, drawing attention especially to welfare services and legislation as they are at the beginning of 1979.

Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221064527
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The international exchange of information on occupational safety and health questions is becoming increasingly important, to give governments, industry, employers' and workers' organizations, scientific institutions and others concerned with this field easier access to information on occupational safety and health practices in other countries.

Author: Frank Sowa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351619942
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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How has New Public Management influenced social policy reform in different developed welfare states? New managerialism is conceptualized as a paradigm, which not only shapes the decision-making process in bureaucratic organizations but also affects the practice of individuals (citizens). Public administrations have been expected to transform from traditional bureaucratic organizations into modern managerial service providers by adopting a business model that requires the efficient and effective use of resources. The introduction of managerial practices, controlling and accounting systems, management by objectives, computerization, service orientation, increased outsourcing, competitive structures and decentralized responsibility are typical of efforts to increase efficiency. These developments have been accompanied by the abolition of civil service systems and fewer secure jobs in public administrations. This book provides a sociological understanding of how public administrations deal with this transformation, how people’s role as public servants is affected, and what kind of strategies emerge either to meet these new organizational requirements or to circumvent them. It shows how hybrid arrangements of public services are created between the public and the private sphere that lead to conflicts of interest between private strategies and public tasks as well as to increasingly homogeneous social welfare provision across Europe.

Author:
Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749522153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264209379
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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This report delivers evidence-based and practical recommendations on how to better support employment and economic development in Canada.

Author: Denis Harrisson
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631585627
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The world of work and labour is in a permanent transformation affecting the various social groups in the different parts of the world quite unequally. Social innovations, related to the idea of economic progress and well-being, tackle the problems of employment leading to social exclusion and poverty as a consequence of the extreme positioning in favour of economic performance. An alternative economy complements the deficiency of both the market and the State. This volume presents contributions from scholars coming from different continents, about Social Economy, Labour Rights, corporate Social Responsibility, Social Regulations and Public Policies. Social innovations have huge impacts on national and regional economies as their sources come from the citizen. Many initiatives presented in this volume are a social response by civil society to poverty, precarious employment, job losses, long term unemployment, delocalisation and de-industrialisation.

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264060200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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This report contains - for Australia - a survey of the main barriers to employment for young people, an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school-to-work, as well as a set of policy recommendations for further action.

Author: Joel Rogers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226723798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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As the influence of labor unions declines in many industrialized nations, particularly the United States, the influence of workers has decreased. Because of the need for greater involvement of workers in changing production systems, as well as frustration with existing structures of workplace regulation, the search has begun for new ways of providing a voice for workers outside the traditional collective bargaining relationship. Works councils—institutionalized bodies for representative communication between an employer and employees in a single workplace—are rare in the Anglo-American world, but are well-established in other industrialized countries. The contributors to this volume survey the history, structure, and functions of works councils in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Canada, and the United States. Special attention is paid to the relations between works councils and unions and collective bargaining, works councils and management, and the role and interest of governments in works councils. On the basis of extensive comparative data from other Western countries, the book demonstrates powerfully that well-designed works councils may be more effective than labor unions at solving management-labor problems.