| Author | : Jon C. Messenger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2004-09-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1135993327 |
As we enter the new century, a common goal has emerged: the removal or liberalization of restrictions on unsocial hours and the variation of working hours. This book draws together an international team to examine the process.
| Author | : Jon C. Messenger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2004-09-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1135993319 |
The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the 'standard' working week by the 1960s, was grounded in a concern for health and safety and for the preservation of time outside of paid labour.Over the last few decades, however, this progressive standardization of
| Author | : Jon C. Messenger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2007-05-31 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 113407039X |
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : International Labour Office |
| Publisher | : International Labour Organization |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9789221179504 |
Including international comparative analysis alongside national case studies, this volume offers a wealth of information on the new trends which have emerged over the past decades - all of which were discussed at the recent 9th International Symposium on Working Time, Paris (2004). It looks at the increasing use of results-based employment relationships for managers and professionals, and the increasing fragmentation of time to more closely tailor staffing needs to customer requirements (e.g., short-hours, part-time work). Moreover, as operating/opening hours rapidly expand toward a 24-hour and 7-day economy, the book considers how this has resulted in a growing diversification, decentralization, and individualization of working hours, as well as an increasing tension between enterprises' business requirements and workers' needs and preferences regarding their hours. This new reality has raised some other challenging issues as well and the volume addresses those such as increasing employment insecurity and instability, time-related social inequalities, particularly in relation to gender, workers' ability to balance their paid work with their personal lives, and even the synchronization of working hours with social times, such as community activities.
| Author | : Sangheon Lee |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 483 |
| Release | : 2008-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1780632479 |
This book represents a unique study which reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and increasing pressure towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the diverging experiences of individual workers in their employment conditions such as employment status, wages/incomes, working time, work organizations and health and safety. Along with thematic studies concerning the roles of workers voice and labour regulation in determining employment conditions, this book includes nine country studies which have been undertaken based on a common research framework for a more rigorous comparison in the region. - A systematic review of employment conditions in the countries which are carefully selected in the region - National-level analysis based on a common research framework - A highly analytical and timely analysis of workers voice and labour regulation with respect to employment conditions
| Author | : Susan Hayter |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1849809836 |
The book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today.s global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labourstandards at risk. This book examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. It focuses on a commonly neglected side of the story and demonstrates the positivecontribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. The various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. They highlight the numerouschallenges in this regard and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy. The chapters are written in an accessible style and deal with practical subjects, including employment security, workplace change and productivity and working time.
| Author | : Ania Zbyszewska |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2016-08-04 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1316654168 |
The standard approach to regulating working hours rests on gendered assumptions about how paid and unpaid work ought to be divided. In this book, Ania Zbyszewska takes a feminist, socio-legal approach to evaluate whether the contemporary European working time regimes can support a more equal sharing of this work. Focusing on the legal and political developments surrounding the EU's Working Time Directive and the reforms of Poland's Labour Code, Zbyszewska reveals that both regimes retain this traditional gender bias, and suggests the reasons for its persistence. She employs a wide range of data sources and uses the Polish case to assess the EU influence over national policy discourse and regulation, with the broader transnational policy trends also considered. This book combines legal analysis with social and political science concepts to highlight law's constitutive role and relational dimensions, and to reflect on the relationship between discursive politics and legal action.
| Author | : International Labour Office |
| Publisher | : International Labour Organization |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9221153649 |
This survey examines the content and application of ILO Conventions relating to minimum standards of working hours (particularly Convention no. 1 and no. 30 covering maximum hours of work for industrial workers, and those in offices and commercial sectors respectively) as a basis for reviewing the existing system of international regulation of work time arrangements. Topics covered include: methods of application, including legislation, collective agreements and arbitration awards; normal and actual hours of work; variable distribution of working hours; Convention ratification and enforcement; national policies and practice; and consultation arrangements.
| Author | : Lourdes Mella Méndez |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2019-01-15 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1527525708 |
This volume analyses the most important problems and challenges that health, age and the environment introduce in the labour market, and how these factors affect both the way people work and their rights. The contributions here focus on the main challenges for social security systems, lawmakers and trade unions, and provide important solutions to improve workers’ rights and guarantee the viability of public social security systems. Other topics analysed here include dress-codes and whistleblowing in companies. From the labour point of view, workers’ representatives and trade unions must take action in collective bargaining to deal with these topics and adequately protect the workforce. The authors here are drawn from countries such as Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, Brazil and Colombia, providing a global perspective. The book will appeal to lawyers, legal and human resources experts, economists, judges, academics and staff from trade unions and employers’ representation. The volume features insights and contributions in different languages, with chapters in Spanish (13), English (7) and Portuguese (2).
