Thursday, September 29, 2005
[IWS] Mercer: 2005 China Corporate Benchmark Monitor (CBM) [19 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Mercer
2005 China Corporate Benchmark Monitor (CBM)
China
Beijing, 19 September 2005
http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1194985
As human resource (HR) is increasingly becoming strategic business partners, it is important for HR professionals to rely on hard, quantifiable evidence to not only justify human capital investment but also seek to optimize the returns of various human capital investments.
According to a newly-released study on the effectiveness of HR function by Mercer Human Resource Consulting 2005 China Corporate Benchmark Monitor, higher performing companies are investing more in human capital programs and HR functions than lower performing companies.
The study finds that the median human capital costs per employee for high performing companies defined as the top one third of companies with profit margin higher than 14% is RMB 138,956 a year, more than twice as much as RMB 58,790 a year for low performing companies defined as the bottom third companies with profit margin below 8%. Also, the HR staff ratio for the high performing companies is 1.4%, higher than the 1.2% of the low performing ones.
The new 2005 study was conducted to examine HR performance and HRs impact on business outcomes among organizations in China for the period from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004. It is based on a survey of 101 companies in China spanning a variety of industries such as Hi-Tech, Pharmaceutical, Automobile, Chemicals, Consumer Goods, and Other Manufacturing (mainly Multinationals China Operations).
The data presented in the CBM provides a detailed snapshot of where participating organizations in China are positioned with regard to 45 key indicators of corporate performance in labor cost ratios, HR budgets, staffing ratios, recruitment, training, and employee turnover. CBM was launched in China from 2002 and has been conducted once a year since then.
The CBM is a diagnostic tool that enables organizations to:
* Identify areas covered by the survey where the performance of your organization is significantly different from that of relevant comparator organizations in China and outside China, and
* Monitor performance, on an ongoing basis, in those areas that have already been identified as worthy of present and future attention.
Staffing ratios
Staffing ratios remained relatively stable, compared to 2004 results. It is noticeable that sales staff as a percentage of total staff rose from 19.2% in 2004 to 22.1% in 2005. It has been observed that companies hire more sales to explore or develop market.
In companies with over 1,000 employees, the HR staff ratio the HR staff as a proportion of all employees is 1.11% at the median, suggesting that one HR staff can support 90 non-HR staff. However, in companies with under 200 employees, the ratio is 2.39%, suggesting that one HR staff can only support 40 non-HR staff.
This difference implies that large companies, measured in terms of workforce size, tend to have scale-of-economy advantages over small companies in providing HR services. This evidence is also supported by the finding that HR expenses measured by HR budget per employee at median are lower in large companies RMB3,772 was budgeted for each employee than in small companies where each employee had a HR budget of RMB 5,890.
The supporting staff ratio was also observed to decrease with an increase in company size by workforce. The average supporting staff as a percentage of total staff (including finance, HR, IT and administration staff) is 9.5%.
Training
The average of training expenditure for all industries stands at RMB 3,205 a year and an average of 33 training hours per year for each employee. It has also been observed that turnover and training expenditure has a negative correlation.
Staff turnover
The average overall voluntary staff turnover increased from 10.0% last year to 13.2% this year, reflecting most likely a tightening of the labor market conditions. Consumer and pharmaceutical companies experienced higher voluntary turnover among employees than other companies. Consumer goods companies have an average voluntary turnover rate of 19.01% while the pharmaceutical ones have an average turnover rate of 17.46%.
About the study
A customized CBM report was sent to each and every one of the participants on July 15, 2005. If you are interested, a soft copy of the 67-page generic study report can be obtained at a cost for non-participants by contacting Ms. Laurel Qin at 10-6505-9355 ext 15.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Mercer
2005 China Corporate Benchmark Monitor (CBM)
China
Beijing, 19 September 2005
http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1194985
As human resource (HR) is increasingly becoming strategic business partners, it is important for HR professionals to rely on hard, quantifiable evidence to not only justify human capital investment but also seek to optimize the returns of various human capital investments.
According to a newly-released study on the effectiveness of HR function by Mercer Human Resource Consulting 2005 China Corporate Benchmark Monitor, higher performing companies are investing more in human capital programs and HR functions than lower performing companies.
The study finds that the median human capital costs per employee for high performing companies defined as the top one third of companies with profit margin higher than 14% is RMB 138,956 a year, more than twice as much as RMB 58,790 a year for low performing companies defined as the bottom third companies with profit margin below 8%. Also, the HR staff ratio for the high performing companies is 1.4%, higher than the 1.2% of the low performing ones.
The new 2005 study was conducted to examine HR performance and HRs impact on business outcomes among organizations in China for the period from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004. It is based on a survey of 101 companies in China spanning a variety of industries such as Hi-Tech, Pharmaceutical, Automobile, Chemicals, Consumer Goods, and Other Manufacturing (mainly Multinationals China Operations).
The data presented in the CBM provides a detailed snapshot of where participating organizations in China are positioned with regard to 45 key indicators of corporate performance in labor cost ratios, HR budgets, staffing ratios, recruitment, training, and employee turnover. CBM was launched in China from 2002 and has been conducted once a year since then.
The CBM is a diagnostic tool that enables organizations to:
* Identify areas covered by the survey where the performance of your organization is significantly different from that of relevant comparator organizations in China and outside China, and
* Monitor performance, on an ongoing basis, in those areas that have already been identified as worthy of present and future attention.
Staffing ratios
Staffing ratios remained relatively stable, compared to 2004 results. It is noticeable that sales staff as a percentage of total staff rose from 19.2% in 2004 to 22.1% in 2005. It has been observed that companies hire more sales to explore or develop market.
In companies with over 1,000 employees, the HR staff ratio the HR staff as a proportion of all employees is 1.11% at the median, suggesting that one HR staff can support 90 non-HR staff. However, in companies with under 200 employees, the ratio is 2.39%, suggesting that one HR staff can only support 40 non-HR staff.
This difference implies that large companies, measured in terms of workforce size, tend to have scale-of-economy advantages over small companies in providing HR services. This evidence is also supported by the finding that HR expenses measured by HR budget per employee at median are lower in large companies RMB3,772 was budgeted for each employee than in small companies where each employee had a HR budget of RMB 5,890.
The supporting staff ratio was also observed to decrease with an increase in company size by workforce. The average supporting staff as a percentage of total staff (including finance, HR, IT and administration staff) is 9.5%.
Training
The average of training expenditure for all industries stands at RMB 3,205 a year and an average of 33 training hours per year for each employee. It has also been observed that turnover and training expenditure has a negative correlation.
Staff turnover
The average overall voluntary staff turnover increased from 10.0% last year to 13.2% this year, reflecting most likely a tightening of the labor market conditions. Consumer and pharmaceutical companies experienced higher voluntary turnover among employees than other companies. Consumer goods companies have an average voluntary turnover rate of 19.01% while the pharmaceutical ones have an average turnover rate of 17.46%.
About the study
A customized CBM report was sent to each and every one of the participants on July 15, 2005. If you are interested, a soft copy of the 67-page generic study report can be obtained at a cost for non-participants by contacting Ms. Laurel Qin at 10-6505-9355 ext 15.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 9:52 AM
[IWS] New! INDUSTRIAL & LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW (FREE Back Issues) [29 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Important news for researchers --
Issues of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review that are not within 18 months of the most current release are available free of charge on the Internet. Only subscribers can retrieve the current issues. Free issues date from APRIL 2003 (earlier issues will soon be added to this database).
PLEASE NOTE: In order to retrieve the free issues, one must go to the ARCHIVES Pull-Down Menu in the left margin and pick the date(s) of interest. Then click on GO.
See
INDUSTRIAL & LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/
Welcome! Issued quarterly since October 1947, the Industrial & Labor Relations Review is a leading interdisciplinary journal publishing original research on all aspects of the employment relationship. We also publish reviews of some 50 books per year.
This site contains the full text of articles and book reviews dating from April 2003 (Vol. 56, No. 3). All visitors can view and download (a) any book review archived in this site and (b) any archived article that is 1-1/2 years old or older. Subscribers can, in addition, view and download recent and current articles.
Subscribers: To gain access to recent and current articles, e-mail us at ILRR@Cornell.edu and provide us with your e-mail address(es) if you are an individual subscriber or your IP address(es) if you are an institutional subscriber. Also provide enough scraps of other information (name or postal address, for example) so that we can find you in our database. Once we have confirmed your status as a subscriber and have registered your e-mail or IP addresses with Digital Commons, you will be able to view and download recent and current articles.
Institutions: If you do not know your IP address, find it at http://www.whatsmyip.org.
This registration process is human-powered, not automatic. During work hours on weekdays, authentication is usually provided quickly. There may be a longer wait if your request is sent on weekends or holidays.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Important news for researchers --
Issues of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review that are not within 18 months of the most current release are available free of charge on the Internet. Only subscribers can retrieve the current issues. Free issues date from APRIL 2003 (earlier issues will soon be added to this database).
PLEASE NOTE: In order to retrieve the free issues, one must go to the ARCHIVES Pull-Down Menu in the left margin and pick the date(s) of interest. Then click on GO.
See
INDUSTRIAL & LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/
Welcome! Issued quarterly since October 1947, the Industrial & Labor Relations Review is a leading interdisciplinary journal publishing original research on all aspects of the employment relationship. We also publish reviews of some 50 books per year.
This site contains the full text of articles and book reviews dating from April 2003 (Vol. 56, No. 3). All visitors can view and download (a) any book review archived in this site and (b) any archived article that is 1-1/2 years old or older. Subscribers can, in addition, view and download recent and current articles.
Subscribers: To gain access to recent and current articles, e-mail us at ILRR@Cornell.edu and provide us with your e-mail address(es) if you are an individual subscriber or your IP address(es) if you are an institutional subscriber. Also provide enough scraps of other information (name or postal address, for example) so that we can find you in our database. Once we have confirmed your status as a subscriber and have registered your e-mail or IP addresses with Digital Commons, you will be able to view and download recent and current articles.
Institutions: If you do not know your IP address, find it at http://www.whatsmyip.org.
This registration process is human-powered, not automatic. During work hours on weekdays, authentication is usually provided quickly. There may be a longer wait if your request is sent on weekends or holidays.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 8:15 AM
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
[IWS] EMCC: New! CONSTRUCTION & Knowledge-intensive BUSINESS SERVICES SECTORS (Change) [28 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
EMCC dossier on the European construction sector [28 September 2005]
< http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05017a.html>
Construction is one of Europe's biggest industries, including the building, civil engineering, demolition and maintenance industries. The sector has an annual turnover in excess of 900 billion and more than 12 million employees in the EU15 alone. This EMCC dossier provides an in-depth analysis of the trends and forces driving change in the sector, using a compilation of relevant reports, company case studies and scenarios to give a comprehensive insight into a sector facing important challenges today.
The knowledge-intensive business services sector: Towards visions for the future and policy implications [28 September 2005]
< http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05016a.html>
or
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2005/ef0559en.pdf (1 Mb) [full text, 28 pages]
The second article in the Sector Futures series on the KIBS sector explores, in greater depth, the reasons for the sector's growth and draws up three alternative scenarios for its future development. The third and last article in this series goes on to review a range of policy issues that are raised by the three scenarios and outlines major policy responses to these issues.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
EMCC dossier on the European construction sector [28 September 2005]
< http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05017a.html>
Construction is one of Europe's biggest industries, including the building, civil engineering, demolition and maintenance industries. The sector has an annual turnover in excess of 900 billion and more than 12 million employees in the EU15 alone. This EMCC dossier provides an in-depth analysis of the trends and forces driving change in the sector, using a compilation of relevant reports, company case studies and scenarios to give a comprehensive insight into a sector facing important challenges today.
The knowledge-intensive business services sector: Towards visions for the future and policy implications [28 September 2005]
< http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/content/source/eu05016a.html>
or
http://www.emcc.eurofound.eu.int/publications/2005/ef0559en.pdf (1 Mb) [full text, 28 pages]
The second article in the Sector Futures series on the KIBS sector explores, in greater depth, the reasons for the sector's growth and draws up three alternative scenarios for its future development. The third and last article in this series goes on to review a range of policy issues that are raised by the three scenarios and outlines major policy responses to these issues.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 5:47 AM
[IWS] CANADA: Weekly Work Report, 26 September 2005
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto).
Weekly Work Report for the Week of September 26, 2005
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
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STELCO CREDITOR PROTECTION EXTENDED, STEELWORKERS VOTE LAST ON RESTRUCTURING PLAN: Late on September 23, Stelco concluded an agreement with Tricap Management for $450 million in new financing, and reached tentative collective agreements with United Steelworkers Local 5220 in Edmonton and Local 8782 at the Lake Erie plant . With these arrangements in place, Stelco will qualify for a $100 million loan from the government of Ontario, and can move ahead to a vote by creditors on its restructuring plan. Company bondholders oppose the restructuring plan, which proposes to make a $400 million payment on the companys $1.3 billion pension deficit.
The president of USW Local 8782 has stated that the agreements involve no concessions, but the union will not conduct formal ratification votes until all other parties have voted on the restructuring plan. The Court has extended Stelcos creditor protection for the tenth time, until October 4.
LINKS:
Archive of court documents re Stelco restructuring at the website of McCarthy Tetrault at < http://www.mccarthy.ca/en/ccaa/ccaa_detailed.asp?company_id=1>
Archive of Stelco documents at the United Steelworkers website at < http://www.steelworkers-metallos.ca/program/content/overview_sub.php?modules_ID=491&modules2_ID=283 >
Stelco faces more hurdles as it presses ahead with its restructuring plan at < http://www.canada.com/businesscentre/story.html?id=5ab0c5ed-44bc-4ffd-b033-74d6bd7a27e4&rfp=dta >
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B.C. TEACHERS BEGIN JOB ACTION: Teachers in British Columbias schools will begin the first phase of job action on September 28, following decision by the BC Labour Relations Board on September 23 which allows them to refuse supervision, meetings and paperwork. A second phase of rotating strikes around the province is planned for October 11 to 20, with a full-scale withdrawal of all services in the province starting October 24 if progress has not been made in negotiations. On September 15, Rick Connolly, the Associate Deputy Minister of Labour was appointed as a fact-finder in the dispute, with a deadline of September 30th to report to the Minister.
The B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF) states that its top bargaining goals are to improve learning conditions, restore bargaining rights, and achieve a fair salary increase. It seeks annual wage increases of 4, 5 and 6 % over three years (including 2% COLA each year), arguing that B.C. wages are inferior to those of teachers in Ontario and Alberta. The British Columbia Public School Employers Association (BCPSEA), whose CEO calls the dispute intractable, maintains that they are limited by the net zero compensation mandate established by the provincial government.
In 2002, Bill 27, the Education Services Collective Agreement Act and Bill 28, The Public Education Flexibility and Choice Act, imposed a collective agreement allowing only a 2.5% wage increase per year for 3 years and amended the School Act to remove class size and composition as a permissible subject of bargaining.
LINKS:
Why are B.C. teachers taking a strike vote? at the BC Teachers Federation website at < http://www.bctf.bc.ca/Bargain/negotiations2004/TeachersTakeAStand/WhyStrikeVote.html >
BCPSEA news archive at < http://www.bcpsea.bc.ca/public/aboutus/news.html>
BC Teachers poised to strike in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 19) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050924/BCTEACHERS24/TPEducation/ >
BCLRB decision B255/2005 re essential services (4 pages, PDF) at < http://www.lrb.bc.ca/decisions/B255$2005.pdf>
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FIRST CONTRACT RECOMMENDED FOR ALBERTAS LAKESIDE PACKERS: On September 19, the government of Alberta made public the report of the Disputes Inquiry Board into the negotiations at Lakeside Packers, the largest meat packing facility in western Canada. Led by John Moreau, the Board wrote a report that details a fair and reasonable proposal for a first collective agreement, effective until March 2009.
The recommended terms were accepted by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 on September 26 but must also be accepted by Lakeside, owned by U.S.-based multinational Tyson Foods, by September 29. Failing acceptance by both parties, they will have the right to strike or lockout.
LINKS:
Report of the Disputes Inquiry Board (23 pages, PDF) at < http://www3.gov.ab.ca/hre/pdf/DIB_report.pdf>
Lakeside workers vote to accept DIB conciliators report at < http://www.prdirect.ca/en/view_release.aspx?TrafficID=4202>
UFCW Local 401 website at < http://www.gounion.ca/lakesidebargain.cfm>
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ALBERTA WAGE SURVEY RELEASED: The 2005 Alberta Wage and Salary Survey was released on September 26, providing detailed wage and salary information for approximately 480 occupations and 8 economic regions, including Calgary, Edmonton, and Fort McMurray. Results show an overall average wage increase of 8.67 % from 2003 to 2005 (from $19.68 per hour to $21.39 per hour). 56% of employers reported difficulties in finding workers (compared to a 2003 rate of 52 %). The Alberta Wage and Salary Survey is conducted every two to three years. In 2005, Alberta Human Resources and Employment led the survey, in partnership with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Economic Development and Advanced Education. Over 6,700 Alberta employers participated.
LINKS:
Press release and summary at < http://www2.gov.ab.ca/acn/200509/18809823611C6-E630-4D3F-9FBA223469A6E5EF.html >
2005 Alberta Wage and Salary Survey (searchable database) at < http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/wageinfo/Content/RequestAction.asp?format=html&aspAction=GetWageHomePage&Page=Home >
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WHO WORKS FOR MINIMUM WAGE? YOUNGER WORKERS AND WOMEN: The Fact Sheet on Minimum Wage published by Statistics Canada shows the distribution of minimum wage workers by province, age, sex, industry, education level, firm size, union membership, job tenure, and part-time/full-time status. Women accounted for almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers; two-thirds of minimum wage workers were under age 25. Only 1% of union members worked for minimum wage, compared to 6% of non-union members. The report was calculated from data from the monthly Labour Force Survey.
LINK:
"Fact sheet on Minimum wages" (4 pages, PDF) from online Perspectives on Labour and Income (Sept. 2005) at < http://www.statcan.ca/english/studies/75-001/comm/2005_09.pdf>
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FUNDING ANNOUNCED FOR NEW SECTOR COUNCILS IN POLICE, FOOD, PRINTING, AND NON-PROFIT SECTORS: On September 26, the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development announced funding of approximately $2 million through the Sector Council Program to create four new sector councils: Police Sector Council, the Canadian Food Industry Council, the Canadian Printing Industries Association and the HR Council for the Voluntary/Non-profit Sector. Sector councils bring together business, labour and educational stakeholders in key industries to identify and address common human resources and skills issues, and to find solutions that benefit the sector. The sector council network now covers approximately 47 % of the labour market.
LINKS:
Government of Canada press release at < http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=171439 &>
Canadian Food Industry Council at < http://www.canadianfoodindustrycouncil.com/en/index.asp>
Canadian Printing Industries Association at < http://www.cpia-aci.ca/>http://www.cpia-aci.ca/
HR Council for the Voluntary/Non Profit sector at < http://www.hrcouncil.ca/council/index_e.cfm>
Police Sector council at < http://www.policecouncil.ca/pages/home.html>
The Alliance of Sector Councils website at < http://www.councils.org/tasc/nav.cfm?s=1main&p=index&l=e>
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CANADIAN LABOUR AND BUSINESS CENTRE TAKES ON NEW ROLE TO LEAD RESEARCH IN WORK AND LEARNING: The Canadian Council on Learning, a national non-profit organization funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, announced in mid-September that it has selected the Canadian Labour and Business Centre as the lead organization for the new Work and Learning Knowledge Centre. The Work and Learning Knowledge Centre is one of five such centres being created by the CCL ; the others are Adult Learning, Early Childhood Learning, Aboriginal Learning, and Health and Learning. Each knowledge centre is responsible for advising CCL on research priorities, monitoring outcomes and knowledge exchange within its topic area. In September, the CCL commissioned a review of best practices and knowledge gaps in e-learning, diversity, and literacy in the workplace. Principal investigator is Lynn Johnston, Executive Director of the Canadian Society for Training and Development.
LINKS:
Work and Learning Knowledge Centre at < http://www.ccl-cca.ca/english/know/work.asp>
Canadian Council on Learning at < http://www.ccl-cca.ca/english/home/default.asp>
Press release at the Canadian Labour and Business Centre at < http://www.clbc.ca/home.asp>
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CSTD ANNOUNCES AWARDS FOR TRAINING EXCELLENCE : The Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) announced four winners of its Canadian Awards for Training Excellence on September 19. The winners were: Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), Alias and Knightsbridge GSW , Hydro One Networks and Provinent, and Mental Health Works for Working It Out: A Manager's Guide to Mental Health and Accommodation in the Workplace. These awards are part of the inaugural CSTD Learn@Work Week, running from September 19 to 23.
LINKS:
Press release at the Canadian Society of Training and Development website at < http://www.bettermail.ca/m/72/5229/>
Fall 2005 issue of the online Canadian Learning Journal (40 pages, PDF) at < http://www.cstd.ca/filedrop/CLJFall05.pdf> .
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YOUNGER RETIREES GO BACK TO WORK FOR MANY REASONS, MAINLY FINANCIAL: An article in the September 2005 issue of online Perspectives on Labour and Income shows that 22% of people who retired at the age of 50 or older went back to some form of paid work, and another 4% said they looked for a job, but hadn't been able to find one. For 38% or respondents their reason for returning to work was for financial concerns; 22% returned because they didnt like retirement; 19% returned for the intrinsic rewards, such as challenge and social contacts, and 14% felt they were needed or wanted to help out. Many people had multiple reasons. The study was based on the 2002 General Social Survey and measured behaviour between 1992 and 2002.
LINKS:
Summary of "Post-retirement employment" by Grant Schellenberg, Martin Turcotte and Bali Ram from The Daily (Sept. 23) at < http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050923/d050923b.htm> . To read the full article, the September edition of online Perspectives on Labour and Income (Cat. #75-001-XIE) can be downloaded for $6 Cdn. from < http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/downpub/pickup.cgi?issue=1090575-001-XIE.pdf >
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CONSUMER PRICE INDEX RISES 2.6% IN AUGUST: Statistics Canada released the Consumer Price Index report for August 2005 on September 23, reflecting some of the recent increases in gasoline prices. The 12-month increase for the All-items CPI was 2.6% in August, compared to 2.0% in July. With energy costs excluded, the All-items 12 month change would have been only 1.6% in August. Gasoline prices increased by 6.6 % between July and August, bringing the year-to-year gain for that item to 20.1 %.
LINKS:
Latest release from the Consumer Price Index at the Statistics Canada website at < http://www.statcan.ca/english/Subjects/Cpi/cpi-en.htm>
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WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT FROM THE WORLD BANK: The World Bank released its annual flagship document, the World Development Report in Washington on September 20. World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development calls for removal of trade barriers in rich countries, flexibility to allow greater in-migration of lower-skilled people from developing countries, and increasedand more effective development assistance.
A press release from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions states that the ICFTU considers this year's report to be among the most balanced assessment of labour issues that the World Bank has recently produced . Like many Bank publications, the 2006 WDR includes some stereotyped and negative references to trade union actions that simply arent realistic But the fact that the report recognizes the positive social and economic role of trade unions, and advocates defending workers rights, is an improvement.
LINKS:
World Development Report 2006 website, including the full report, background papers at < http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,menuPK:477658~pagePK:64167702~piPK:64167676~theSitePK:477642,00.html >
Overview and archive of all World Development Reports at the World Bank website at < http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/0,,contentMDK:20227703~pagePK:478093~piPK:477627~theSitePK:477624,00.html >
ICFTU press release at < http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991222829&Language=EN >
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Book of the Week: Strategic Unionism and Partnership: Boxing or Dancing ?
edited by Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott.
Houndmills. <?xml:namespace prefix = u1 />U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 362 p.
ISBN 1-4039-1756-6
How can trade unions make sense of social partnership? What are the implications of partnership for union renewal? This book takes an international perspective to explore these issues based on an ongoing dialogue between researchers and union practitioners in eight countries. The book develops the metaphors "boxing" and "dancing" to denote contrasting strategic choices to the employment relationship, yet argues that neither approach alone can offer an exclusive trajectory for union development. The contributors conclude by identifying lessons for union renewal.
About the Editors:
Tony Huzzard is Research Fellow, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden.
Denis Gregory teaches Labor Relations and Labor Economics at Ruskin College, Oxford.
Regan Scott is a freelance writer on Industrial Relations.
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121 St. George Street, Toronto Canada M5S 2E8 < http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cir>
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto).
Weekly Work Report for the Week of September 26, 2005
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
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STELCO CREDITOR PROTECTION EXTENDED, STEELWORKERS VOTE LAST ON RESTRUCTURING PLAN: Late on September 23, Stelco concluded an agreement with Tricap Management for $450 million in new financing, and reached tentative collective agreements with United Steelworkers Local 5220 in Edmonton and Local 8782 at the Lake Erie plant . With these arrangements in place, Stelco will qualify for a $100 million loan from the government of Ontario, and can move ahead to a vote by creditors on its restructuring plan. Company bondholders oppose the restructuring plan, which proposes to make a $400 million payment on the companys $1.3 billion pension deficit.
The president of USW Local 8782 has stated that the agreements involve no concessions, but the union will not conduct formal ratification votes until all other parties have voted on the restructuring plan. The Court has extended Stelcos creditor protection for the tenth time, until October 4.
LINKS:
Archive of court documents re Stelco restructuring at the website of McCarthy Tetrault at < http://www.mccarthy.ca/en/ccaa/ccaa_detailed.asp?company_id=1>
Archive of Stelco documents at the United Steelworkers website at < http://www.steelworkers-metallos.ca/program/content/overview_sub.php?modules_ID=491&modules2_ID=283 >
Stelco faces more hurdles as it presses ahead with its restructuring plan at < http://www.canada.com/businesscentre/story.html?id=5ab0c5ed-44bc-4ffd-b033-74d6bd7a27e4&rfp=dta >
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B.C. TEACHERS BEGIN JOB ACTION: Teachers in British Columbias schools will begin the first phase of job action on September 28, following decision by the BC Labour Relations Board on September 23 which allows them to refuse supervision, meetings and paperwork. A second phase of rotating strikes around the province is planned for October 11 to 20, with a full-scale withdrawal of all services in the province starting October 24 if progress has not been made in negotiations. On September 15, Rick Connolly, the Associate Deputy Minister of Labour was appointed as a fact-finder in the dispute, with a deadline of September 30th to report to the Minister.
The B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF) states that its top bargaining goals are to improve learning conditions, restore bargaining rights, and achieve a fair salary increase. It seeks annual wage increases of 4, 5 and 6 % over three years (including 2% COLA each year), arguing that B.C. wages are inferior to those of teachers in Ontario and Alberta. The British Columbia Public School Employers Association (BCPSEA), whose CEO calls the dispute intractable, maintains that they are limited by the net zero compensation mandate established by the provincial government.
In 2002, Bill 27, the Education Services Collective Agreement Act and Bill 28, The Public Education Flexibility and Choice Act, imposed a collective agreement allowing only a 2.5% wage increase per year for 3 years and amended the School Act to remove class size and composition as a permissible subject of bargaining.
LINKS:
Why are B.C. teachers taking a strike vote? at the BC Teachers Federation website at < http://www.bctf.bc.ca/Bargain/negotiations2004/TeachersTakeAStand/WhyStrikeVote.html >
BCPSEA news archive at < http://www.bcpsea.bc.ca/public/aboutus/news.html>
BC Teachers poised to strike in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 19) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050924/BCTEACHERS24/TPEducation/ >
BCLRB decision B255/2005 re essential services (4 pages, PDF) at < http://www.lrb.bc.ca/decisions/B255$2005.pdf>
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FIRST CONTRACT RECOMMENDED FOR ALBERTAS LAKESIDE PACKERS: On September 19, the government of Alberta made public the report of the Disputes Inquiry Board into the negotiations at Lakeside Packers, the largest meat packing facility in western Canada. Led by John Moreau, the Board wrote a report that details a fair and reasonable proposal for a first collective agreement, effective until March 2009.
The recommended terms were accepted by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 on September 26 but must also be accepted by Lakeside, owned by U.S.-based multinational Tyson Foods, by September 29. Failing acceptance by both parties, they will have the right to strike or lockout.
LINKS:
Report of the Disputes Inquiry Board (23 pages, PDF) at < http://www3.gov.ab.ca/hre/pdf/DIB_report.pdf>
Lakeside workers vote to accept DIB conciliators report at < http://www.prdirect.ca/en/view_release.aspx?TrafficID=4202>
UFCW Local 401 website at < http://www.gounion.ca/lakesidebargain.cfm>
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ALBERTA WAGE SURVEY RELEASED: The 2005 Alberta Wage and Salary Survey was released on September 26, providing detailed wage and salary information for approximately 480 occupations and 8 economic regions, including Calgary, Edmonton, and Fort McMurray. Results show an overall average wage increase of 8.67 % from 2003 to 2005 (from $19.68 per hour to $21.39 per hour). 56% of employers reported difficulties in finding workers (compared to a 2003 rate of 52 %). The Alberta Wage and Salary Survey is conducted every two to three years. In 2005, Alberta Human Resources and Employment led the survey, in partnership with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, Economic Development and Advanced Education. Over 6,700 Alberta employers participated.
LINKS:
Press release and summary at < http://www2.gov.ab.ca/acn/200509/18809823611C6-E630-4D3F-9FBA223469A6E5EF.html >
2005 Alberta Wage and Salary Survey (searchable database) at < http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/wageinfo/Content/RequestAction.asp?format=html&aspAction=GetWageHomePage&Page=Home >
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WHO WORKS FOR MINIMUM WAGE? YOUNGER WORKERS AND WOMEN: The Fact Sheet on Minimum Wage published by Statistics Canada shows the distribution of minimum wage workers by province, age, sex, industry, education level, firm size, union membership, job tenure, and part-time/full-time status. Women accounted for almost two-thirds of minimum wage workers; two-thirds of minimum wage workers were under age 25. Only 1% of union members worked for minimum wage, compared to 6% of non-union members. The report was calculated from data from the monthly Labour Force Survey.
LINK:
"Fact sheet on Minimum wages" (4 pages, PDF) from online Perspectives on Labour and Income (Sept. 2005) at < http://www.statcan.ca/english/studies/75-001/comm/2005_09.pdf>
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FUNDING ANNOUNCED FOR NEW SECTOR COUNCILS IN POLICE, FOOD, PRINTING, AND NON-PROFIT SECTORS: On September 26, the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development announced funding of approximately $2 million through the Sector Council Program to create four new sector councils: Police Sector Council, the Canadian Food Industry Council, the Canadian Printing Industries Association and the HR Council for the Voluntary/Non-profit Sector. Sector councils bring together business, labour and educational stakeholders in key industries to identify and address common human resources and skills issues, and to find solutions that benefit the sector. The sector council network now covers approximately 47 % of the labour market.
LINKS:
Government of Canada press release at < http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=171439 &>
Canadian Food Industry Council at < http://www.canadianfoodindustrycouncil.com/en/index.asp>
Canadian Printing Industries Association at < http://www.cpia-aci.ca/>http://www.cpia-aci.ca/
HR Council for the Voluntary/Non Profit sector at < http://www.hrcouncil.ca/council/index_e.cfm>
Police Sector council at < http://www.policecouncil.ca/pages/home.html>
The Alliance of Sector Councils website at < http://www.councils.org/tasc/nav.cfm?s=1main&p=index&l=e>
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CANADIAN LABOUR AND BUSINESS CENTRE TAKES ON NEW ROLE TO LEAD RESEARCH IN WORK AND LEARNING: The Canadian Council on Learning, a national non-profit organization funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, announced in mid-September that it has selected the Canadian Labour and Business Centre as the lead organization for the new Work and Learning Knowledge Centre. The Work and Learning Knowledge Centre is one of five such centres being created by the CCL ; the others are Adult Learning, Early Childhood Learning, Aboriginal Learning, and Health and Learning. Each knowledge centre is responsible for advising CCL on research priorities, monitoring outcomes and knowledge exchange within its topic area. In September, the CCL commissioned a review of best practices and knowledge gaps in e-learning, diversity, and literacy in the workplace. Principal investigator is Lynn Johnston, Executive Director of the Canadian Society for Training and Development.
LINKS:
Work and Learning Knowledge Centre at < http://www.ccl-cca.ca/english/know/work.asp>
Canadian Council on Learning at < http://www.ccl-cca.ca/english/home/default.asp>
Press release at the Canadian Labour and Business Centre at < http://www.clbc.ca/home.asp>
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CSTD ANNOUNCES AWARDS FOR TRAINING EXCELLENCE : The Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) announced four winners of its Canadian Awards for Training Excellence on September 19. The winners were: Ontario Service Safety Alliance (OSSA), Alias and Knightsbridge GSW , Hydro One Networks and Provinent, and Mental Health Works for Working It Out: A Manager's Guide to Mental Health and Accommodation in the Workplace. These awards are part of the inaugural CSTD Learn@Work Week, running from September 19 to 23.
LINKS:
Press release at the Canadian Society of Training and Development website at < http://www.bettermail.ca/m/72/5229/>
Fall 2005 issue of the online Canadian Learning Journal (40 pages, PDF) at < http://www.cstd.ca/filedrop/CLJFall05.pdf> .
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YOUNGER RETIREES GO BACK TO WORK FOR MANY REASONS, MAINLY FINANCIAL: An article in the September 2005 issue of online Perspectives on Labour and Income shows that 22% of people who retired at the age of 50 or older went back to some form of paid work, and another 4% said they looked for a job, but hadn't been able to find one. For 38% or respondents their reason for returning to work was for financial concerns; 22% returned because they didnt like retirement; 19% returned for the intrinsic rewards, such as challenge and social contacts, and 14% felt they were needed or wanted to help out. Many people had multiple reasons. The study was based on the 2002 General Social Survey and measured behaviour between 1992 and 2002.
LINKS:
Summary of "Post-retirement employment" by Grant Schellenberg, Martin Turcotte and Bali Ram from The Daily (Sept. 23) at < http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050923/d050923b.htm> . To read the full article, the September edition of online Perspectives on Labour and Income (Cat. #75-001-XIE) can be downloaded for $6 Cdn. from < http://www.statcan.ca/cgi-bin/downpub/pickup.cgi?issue=1090575-001-XIE.pdf >
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CONSUMER PRICE INDEX RISES 2.6% IN AUGUST: Statistics Canada released the Consumer Price Index report for August 2005 on September 23, reflecting some of the recent increases in gasoline prices. The 12-month increase for the All-items CPI was 2.6% in August, compared to 2.0% in July. With energy costs excluded, the All-items 12 month change would have been only 1.6% in August. Gasoline prices increased by 6.6 % between July and August, bringing the year-to-year gain for that item to 20.1 %.
LINKS:
Latest release from the Consumer Price Index at the Statistics Canada website at < http://www.statcan.ca/english/Subjects/Cpi/cpi-en.htm>
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WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT FROM THE WORLD BANK: The World Bank released its annual flagship document, the World Development Report in Washington on September 20. World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development calls for removal of trade barriers in rich countries, flexibility to allow greater in-migration of lower-skilled people from developing countries, and increasedand more effective development assistance.
A press release from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions states that the ICFTU considers this year's report to be among the most balanced assessment of labour issues that the World Bank has recently produced . Like many Bank publications, the 2006 WDR includes some stereotyped and negative references to trade union actions that simply arent realistic But the fact that the report recognizes the positive social and economic role of trade unions, and advocates defending workers rights, is an improvement.
LINKS:
World Development Report 2006 website, including the full report, background papers at < http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,menuPK:477658~pagePK:64167702~piPK:64167676~theSitePK:477642,00.html >
Overview and archive of all World Development Reports at the World Bank website at < http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/0,,contentMDK:20227703~pagePK:478093~piPK:477627~theSitePK:477624,00.html >
ICFTU press release at < http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991222829&Language=EN >
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Book of the Week: Strategic Unionism and Partnership: Boxing or Dancing ?
edited by Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott.
Houndmills. <?xml:namespace prefix = u1 />U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 362 p.
ISBN 1-4039-1756-6
How can trade unions make sense of social partnership? What are the implications of partnership for union renewal? This book takes an international perspective to explore these issues based on an ongoing dialogue between researchers and union practitioners in eight countries. The book develops the metaphors "boxing" and "dancing" to denote contrasting strategic choices to the employment relationship, yet argues that neither approach alone can offer an exclusive trajectory for union development. The contributors conclude by identifying lessons for union renewal.
About the Editors:
Tony Huzzard is Research Fellow, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden.
Denis Gregory teaches Labor Relations and Labor Economics at Ruskin College, Oxford.
Regan Scott is a freelance writer on Industrial Relations.
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121 St. George Street, Toronto Canada M5S 2E8 < http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cir>
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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# posted by SBasefsky : 5:31 AM
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
[IWS] Upjohn: SOUTH AFRICA MINIMUM WAGE Effects on DOMESTIC SERVICE WORKERS [August 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Employment and Earnings of South Africa's Domestic Service Workers,
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/05-120.pdf
[full-text, 60 pages]
Upjohn Institute Working Paper 05-120
Tom Hertz , 2005. [15 August 2005]
Abstract
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/05120wp.html
Minimum wages have been in place for South Africa's one million domestic service workers since November of 2002. Using data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper documents that the real wages, average monthly earnings, and total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the regulations came into effect, while hours of work per week and employment have fallen. Each of these outcomes can be linked econometrically to the arrival of the minimum wage regulations. The overall estimated elasticities suggest that the regulations should have reduced poverty somewhat for domestic workers, although this last conclusion is the least robust.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Employment and Earnings of South Africa's Domestic Service Workers,
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/05-120.pdf
[full-text, 60 pages]
Upjohn Institute Working Paper 05-120
Tom Hertz , 2005. [15 August 2005]
Abstract
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/wp/05120wp.html
Minimum wages have been in place for South Africa's one million domestic service workers since November of 2002. Using data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper documents that the real wages, average monthly earnings, and total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the regulations came into effect, while hours of work per week and employment have fallen. Each of these outcomes can be linked econometrically to the arrival of the minimum wage regulations. The overall estimated elasticities suggest that the regulations should have reduced poverty somewhat for domestic workers, although this last conclusion is the least robust.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 11:22 AM
Monday, September 26, 2005
[IWS] EIROnline:INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS in EUROPE 2004 [26 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online
Industrial Relations Developments in Europe 2004 [26 September 2005]
http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/other_reports/ef0572en.pdf
[full-text, 108 pages]
[excerpt]
Industrial relations developments in Europe 2004 focuses on EU-level initiatives and activities related
specifically to European social dialogue. It also examines the main developments at national level
in areas such as legislative developments, the organisation and role of the social partners, industrial
action, employee participation, absence from work, psychological harassment, and new forms of
work. A special focus on employee involvement in areas of information, consultation and
participation provides an insight into key measures in this important domain.
Contents
vii
Foreword v
Introduction 1
1 Developments at EU level 3
2 Comparative overview of industrial relations 25
3 Recent developments in information, consultation and participation 75
References 93
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) Online
Industrial Relations Developments in Europe 2004 [26 September 2005]
http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/other_reports/ef0572en.pdf
[full-text, 108 pages]
[excerpt]
Industrial relations developments in Europe 2004 focuses on EU-level initiatives and activities related
specifically to European social dialogue. It also examines the main developments at national level
in areas such as legislative developments, the organisation and role of the social partners, industrial
action, employee participation, absence from work, psychological harassment, and new forms of
work. A special focus on employee involvement in areas of information, consultation and
participation provides an insight into key measures in this important domain.
Contents
vii
Foreword v
Introduction 1
1 Developments at EU level 3
2 Comparative overview of industrial relations 25
3 Recent developments in information, consultation and participation 75
References 93
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[IWS] World Bank BACKGROUND PAPERS for WDR 2006 (Equity & Development) [20 September 2005]
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Background Papers
World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,contentMDK:20232899~menuPK:477651~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:477642,00.html
* Claessens, Stijn and Enrico Perotti. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/The_Links_between_Finance_and_Inequality_Channels_and-Evidence.pdf >
The Links between Finance and Inequality: Chanels and Evidence.
* Decker, Klaus, Caroline Sage and Milena Stefanova. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Law_or_Justice_Building_Equitable_Legal_Institutions.pdf >
Law or Justice: Building Equitable Legal Institutions.
* Hoff, Karla. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/What_Can_Economists_Explain_by_Taking_into_Account_Peoples_Perceptions_of_Fairness.pdf >
What Can Economists Explain by Taking into Account People's Perceptions of Fairness? Punishing Cheats, Bargaining Impasse, and Self-Perpetuating Inequalities.
* Pinglé, Vibha. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Faith_Equity_and_Development.pdf >
Faith, Equity, and Development.
* Rao, Vijayendra. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Symbolic_Public_Goods_and_the_Coordination_of_Collective_Action_A_Comparison_of_Local_Development_in_India_and_Indonesia.pdf >
Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia.
* Ravallion, Martin. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Inequality_is_Bad_for_the_Poor.pdf >
Inequality is Bad for the Poor.
* Chirayath, Leila, Caroline Sage and Michael Woolcock. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Customary_Law_and_Policy_Reform.pdf >
Customary Law and Policy Reform: Engaging with the Plurality of Justice Systems.
The following papers were prepared in collaboration with the U. K. Department for International Development (DfID) and the World Bank's Social Development Department (see the November 15, 2004 Seminar on Promoting Equity in Development, under Consultations).
* Andersson, Martin and Christer Gunnarsson. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Egalitarianism_in_the_Process_of_Modern_Economic_Growth_The_Case_of_Sweden.pdf >
Egalitarianism in the Process of Modern Economic Growth: The Case of Sweden.
* Barrientos, Armando. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Cash_transfers_for_Older_People_Reduce_Poverty_and_Inequality.pdf >
Cash Transfers for Older People Reduce Poverty and Inequality.
* Black, Richard, Claudia Natali and Jessica Skinner. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Migration_and_Inequality.pdf >
Migration and Inequality.
* Boix, Carles. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Spain_Development_Democracy_and_Equity.pdf >
Spain: Development, Democracy and Equity.
* de Haan, Arjan. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Disparities_within_Indias_Poorest_Regions_Why_Do-the_Same_Institutions_Work_Differently_in_Different_Places.pdf >
Disparities within India's Poorest Regions: Why Do the Same Institutions Work Differently in Different Places?
* Deshpande, Ashwini. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Affirmative_Action_in_India_and_the_United_States.pdf >
Affirmative Action in India and the United States.
* Lucero, Jose Antonio. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Indigenous_Political_Voice_and_the_Struggle_for_Recognition_in_Ecuador_and_Bolivia.pdf >
Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia.
* Gacitúa-Marió, Estanislao and Michael Woolcock, with Marisa von Bulow. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Assessing_Social_Exclusion_and_Mobility_in_Brazil.pdf >
Assessing Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil.
* Moncrieffe, Joy M. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Beyond_Categories_Power_Recognition_and_the_Conditions_for_Equity.pdf >
Beyond Categories: Power, Recognition and the Conditions for Equity.
* Ross, Michael. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Mineral_Wealth_and_Equitable_Development.pdf >
Mineral Wealth and Equitable Development.
* Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Asset_Inequality_and_Agricultural_Growth_How_are_patterns_of_asset_inequality_established_and_reproduced.pdf >
Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
* Shepherd, Andrew and E. Gyimah-Boadi, with Sulley Gariba, Sophie Plagerson and Abdul Wahab Musa. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Bridging_the_North_South_Divide_in_Ghana.pdf >
Bridging the North South Divide in Ghana.
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Cornell University
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New York, NY 10016
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Background Papers
World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,contentMDK:20232899~menuPK:477651~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:477642,00.html
* Claessens, Stijn and Enrico Perotti. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/The_Links_between_Finance_and_Inequality_Channels_and-Evidence.pdf >
The Links between Finance and Inequality: Chanels and Evidence.
* Decker, Klaus, Caroline Sage and Milena Stefanova. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Law_or_Justice_Building_Equitable_Legal_Institutions.pdf >
Law or Justice: Building Equitable Legal Institutions.
* Hoff, Karla. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/What_Can_Economists_Explain_by_Taking_into_Account_Peoples_Perceptions_of_Fairness.pdf >
What Can Economists Explain by Taking into Account People's Perceptions of Fairness? Punishing Cheats, Bargaining Impasse, and Self-Perpetuating Inequalities.
* Pinglé, Vibha. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Faith_Equity_and_Development.pdf >
Faith, Equity, and Development.
* Rao, Vijayendra. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Symbolic_Public_Goods_and_the_Coordination_of_Collective_Action_A_Comparison_of_Local_Development_in_India_and_Indonesia.pdf >
Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia.
* Ravallion, Martin. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Inequality_is_Bad_for_the_Poor.pdf >
Inequality is Bad for the Poor.
* Chirayath, Leila, Caroline Sage and Michael Woolcock. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Customary_Law_and_Policy_Reform.pdf >
Customary Law and Policy Reform: Engaging with the Plurality of Justice Systems.
The following papers were prepared in collaboration with the U. K. Department for International Development (DfID) and the World Bank's Social Development Department (see the November 15, 2004 Seminar on Promoting Equity in Development, under Consultations).
* Andersson, Martin and Christer Gunnarsson. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Egalitarianism_in_the_Process_of_Modern_Economic_Growth_The_Case_of_Sweden.pdf >
Egalitarianism in the Process of Modern Economic Growth: The Case of Sweden.
* Barrientos, Armando. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Cash_transfers_for_Older_People_Reduce_Poverty_and_Inequality.pdf >
Cash Transfers for Older People Reduce Poverty and Inequality.
* Black, Richard, Claudia Natali and Jessica Skinner. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Migration_and_Inequality.pdf >
Migration and Inequality.
* Boix, Carles. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Spain_Development_Democracy_and_Equity.pdf >
Spain: Development, Democracy and Equity.
* de Haan, Arjan. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Disparities_within_Indias_Poorest_Regions_Why_Do-the_Same_Institutions_Work_Differently_in_Different_Places.pdf >
Disparities within India's Poorest Regions: Why Do the Same Institutions Work Differently in Different Places?
* Deshpande, Ashwini. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Affirmative_Action_in_India_and_the_United_States.pdf >
Affirmative Action in India and the United States.
* Lucero, Jose Antonio. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Indigenous_Political_Voice_and_the_Struggle_for_Recognition_in_Ecuador_and_Bolivia.pdf >
Indigenous Political Voice and the Struggle for Recognition in Ecuador and Bolivia.
* Gacitúa-Marió, Estanislao and Michael Woolcock, with Marisa von Bulow. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Assessing_Social_Exclusion_and_Mobility_in_Brazil.pdf >
Assessing Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil.
* Moncrieffe, Joy M. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Beyond_Categories_Power_Recognition_and_the_Conditions_for_Equity.pdf >
Beyond Categories: Power, Recognition and the Conditions for Equity.
* Ross, Michael. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Mineral_Wealth_and_Equitable_Development.pdf >
Mineral Wealth and Equitable Development.
* Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel. 2005. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Asset_Inequality_and_Agricultural_Growth_How_are_patterns_of_asset_inequality_established_and_reproduced.pdf >
Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
* Shepherd, Andrew and E. Gyimah-Boadi, with Sulley Gariba, Sophie Plagerson and Abdul Wahab Musa. 2004. < http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1118673432908/Bridging_the_North_South_Divide_in_Ghana.pdf >
Bridging the North South Divide in Ghana.
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[IWS] World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development [20 September 2005]
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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________________________________________________________________________
World Bank
World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development [20 September 2005]
http://wdsbeta.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2005/09/20/000112742_20050920110826/Rendered/PDF/322040World0Development0Report02006.pdf
[full-text, 340 pages]
Overview
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1127230817535/WDR2006overview.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]
Download by Chapter
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000112742_20050920110826
Press Release, 20 September 2005
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,contentMDK:20232719~menuPK:477649~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:477642,00.html
Summary:
World Development Report 2006 analyzes the relationship between equity and development. The report documents the persistence of inequality traps by highlighting the interaction between different forms of inequality. It presents evidence that the inequality of opportunity that arises is wasteful and inimical to sustainable development and poverty reduction. It also derives policy implications that center on the broad concept of leveling the playing field-both politically and economically and in the domestic and the global arenas. The report recognizes the intrinsic value of equity but aims primarily to document how a focus on equity matters for long-run development. It has three parts: Part I considers the evidence on inequality of opportunity, within and across countries. Part II asks why equity matters, discussing the two channels of impact (the effects of unequal opportunities when markets are imperfect, and the consequences of inequity for the quality of institutions a society develops) as well as intrinsic motives. Part III asks how public action can level the political and economic playing fields. In the domestic arena, it makes the case for investing in people, expanding access to justice, land, and infrastructure, and promoting fairness in markets. In the international arena, it considers leveling the playing field in the functioning of global markets and the rules that govern them-and the complementary provision of aid to help poor countries and poor people build greater endowments.
_____________________________
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
World Bank
World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development [20 September 2005]
http://wdsbeta.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2005/09/20/000112742_20050920110826/Rendered/PDF/322040World0Development0Report02006.pdf
[full-text, 340 pages]
Overview
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWDR2006/Resources/477383-1127230817535/WDR2006overview.pdf
[full-text, 17 pages]
Download by Chapter
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000112742_20050920110826
Press Release, 20 September 2005
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/EXTWDR2006/0,,contentMDK:20232719~menuPK:477649~pagePK:64167689~piPK:64167673~theSitePK:477642,00.html
Summary:
World Development Report 2006 analyzes the relationship between equity and development. The report documents the persistence of inequality traps by highlighting the interaction between different forms of inequality. It presents evidence that the inequality of opportunity that arises is wasteful and inimical to sustainable development and poverty reduction. It also derives policy implications that center on the broad concept of leveling the playing field-both politically and economically and in the domestic and the global arenas. The report recognizes the intrinsic value of equity but aims primarily to document how a focus on equity matters for long-run development. It has three parts: Part I considers the evidence on inequality of opportunity, within and across countries. Part II asks why equity matters, discussing the two channels of impact (the effects of unequal opportunities when markets are imperfect, and the consequences of inequity for the quality of institutions a society develops) as well as intrinsic motives. Part III asks how public action can level the political and economic playing fields. In the domestic arena, it makes the case for investing in people, expanding access to justice, land, and infrastructure, and promoting fairness in markets. In the international arena, it considers leveling the playing field in the functioning of global markets and the rules that govern them-and the complementary provision of aid to help poor countries and poor people build greater endowments.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
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Friday, September 23, 2005
[IWS] BLS: COMPARATIVE Consumer Price Indexes 9 Countries 1995-2005 [2 September 2005]
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Consumer price indexes in nine countries, percent change from same period of previous year, 1995-2005 [2 September 2005]
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flscpim.txt
Data compiled by: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2, 2005.
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Consumer price indexes in nine countries, percent change from same period of previous year, 1995-2005 [2 September 2005]
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flscpim.txt
Data compiled by: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2, 2005.
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[IWS] BLS: COMPARATIVE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE in 9 Countries & European Union 1995-2005 [2 September 2005]
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Unemployment rates in nine countries, civilian labor force basis,approximating U.S. concepts, seasonally adjusted, 1995-2005
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flsjec.txt
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2, 2005.
Unemployment rates in the European Union and selected member countries, civilian labor force basis (1), seasonally adjusted, 1995-2005
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flseur.txt
Data compiled by U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS has not adjusted these data to reflect U.S. labor
force concepts. September 2, 2005.
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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Unemployment rates in nine countries, civilian labor force basis,approximating U.S. concepts, seasonally adjusted, 1995-2005
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flsjec.txt
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2, 2005.
Unemployment rates in the European Union and selected member countries, civilian labor force basis (1), seasonally adjusted, 1995-2005
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/flseur.txt
Data compiled by U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; BLS has not adjusted these data to reflect U.S. labor
force concepts. September 2, 2005.
_____________________________
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Stuart Basefsky
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Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
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# posted by SBasefsky : 10:46 AM
[IWS] BLS: MASS LAYOFFS & DOMESTIC & OVERSEAS RELOCATION [September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
* Presented at the EU-US Seminar on �Offshoring of Services in ICT and Related Services,� Brussels,
Belgium, December 13-14, 2004.
Mass Layoff Statistics Data in the United States and Domestic and Overseas Relocation*
Sharon P. Brown
Chief, Division of Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.bls.gov/mls/mlsrelocation.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]
[excerpt]
With increasing interest in the impact on the U.S. economy of offshoring and outsourcing of work, the
MLS program, and the employer interview component in particular, was determined to be
an appropriate vehicle for collecting information on this economic phenomenon. After
an intensive period of development, questions were added to the MLS employer
interview in January 2004 that identify job loss associated with movement of work within
the company and to another company, domestically and out of the country. Beginning in
June 2004, the results of these questions have been published.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
* Presented at the EU-US Seminar on �Offshoring of Services in ICT and Related Services,� Brussels,
Belgium, December 13-14, 2004.
Mass Layoff Statistics Data in the United States and Domestic and Overseas Relocation*
Sharon P. Brown
Chief, Division of Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.bls.gov/mls/mlsrelocation.pdf
[full-text, 13 pages]
[excerpt]
With increasing interest in the impact on the U.S. economy of offshoring and outsourcing of work, the
MLS program, and the employer interview component in particular, was determined to be
an appropriate vehicle for collecting information on this economic phenomenon. After
an intensive period of development, questions were added to the MLS employer
interview in January 2004 that identify job loss associated with movement of work within
the company and to another company, domestically and out of the country. Beginning in
June 2004, the results of these questions have been published.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 10:33 AM
[IWS] CRS: Foreign Outsourcing: Economic Implications and Policy Responses - Update 21 June 2005 (online 21 September 2005)
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Foreign Outsourcing: Economic Implications and Policy Responses
Updated June 21, 2005
Craig K. Elwell
Specialist in Macroeconomics
Government and Finance Division
http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RL32484_20050621.pdf
[full-text, 28 pages]
Summary
Foreign outsourcing--the importing of some intermediate product (i.e., a portion
of a final product or some good or service needed to produce a final product) that was
once produced domestically--is not a new phenomenon, nor is it one that is
economically distinct from other types of imports in terms of its basic economic
consequences. A steadily rising level of trade in intermediate products is one of the
salient characteristics of U.S. trade and world trade for the last 30 years. It has been
estimated that as much as a third of the growth of world trade since 1970 has been
the result of such outsourcing worldwide. While foreign outsourcing may seem
different from traditional notions of trade in that it involves exchange of a productive
resource (capital or labor) rather than an exchange of a final good and service, the
ultimate economic outcome is exactly the same: a net increase in economic efficiency
through the elimination of economic inefficiencies that occur when countries use
only the productive resources found within their borders. This gain is not likely to
be achieved, however, without causing costly disruptions for the particular workers
and sectors tied to the now-imported good.
Foreign outsourcing, trade in general, and trade deficits tend to change the
composition of total output and the composition of total employment, but it is
unlikely that economy-wide they lead to any change in the overall level of either.
In some areas of the economy output falls and jobs are destroyed, but in other areas
output is increased and jobs are created. There are two complementary reasons for
this. First, the Federal Reserve using monetary policy can set the overall level of
spending in the economy to a level consistent with full employment. With aggregate
spending at the right level, full employment is possible with or without outsourcing,
trade deficits, or trade in general. Second, according to basic economic principles
any increase in the demand for an import will also lead to adjustments in the foreign
exchange market that will induce an equal increase in the demand for the country's
exports of goods or assets. The positive stimulus to employment of the increased
export of goods is direct, that of the increased export of assets is indirect, but both
tend to create jobs in other parts of the economy. Indirect evidence of this inherent
"two-way" nature of trade and that increased outsourcing over the last 30 years has
not likely led to a significant net diversion of employment or output abroad is found
in the relatively stable patterns of employment and output between the domestic
parent and foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational corporations. In addition, there is
evidence of sizable foreign outsourcing to and job creation in the United States.
The destructive aspects of foreign outsourcing are costly and distressing to
those whose jobs are lost to increased imports. Therefore, matters of efficiency and
equity are intertwined and one of the principal challenges for policymakers in the
face of foreign outsourcing (and trade in general) is to find ways to ameliorate the
associated harm, without sacrificing the economy-wide gains that such trade
generates. Compensation for loss and adjustment assistance is thought by economists
to offer the best chance for securing higher economic efficiency along with
distributional equity. This report will be updated as events warrant.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Foreign Outsourcing: Economic Implications and Policy Responses
Updated June 21, 2005
Craig K. Elwell
Specialist in Macroeconomics
Government and Finance Division
http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RL32484_20050621.pdf
[full-text, 28 pages]
Summary
Foreign outsourcing--the importing of some intermediate product (i.e., a portion
of a final product or some good or service needed to produce a final product) that was
once produced domestically--is not a new phenomenon, nor is it one that is
economically distinct from other types of imports in terms of its basic economic
consequences. A steadily rising level of trade in intermediate products is one of the
salient characteristics of U.S. trade and world trade for the last 30 years. It has been
estimated that as much as a third of the growth of world trade since 1970 has been
the result of such outsourcing worldwide. While foreign outsourcing may seem
different from traditional notions of trade in that it involves exchange of a productive
resource (capital or labor) rather than an exchange of a final good and service, the
ultimate economic outcome is exactly the same: a net increase in economic efficiency
through the elimination of economic inefficiencies that occur when countries use
only the productive resources found within their borders. This gain is not likely to
be achieved, however, without causing costly disruptions for the particular workers
and sectors tied to the now-imported good.
Foreign outsourcing, trade in general, and trade deficits tend to change the
composition of total output and the composition of total employment, but it is
unlikely that economy-wide they lead to any change in the overall level of either.
In some areas of the economy output falls and jobs are destroyed, but in other areas
output is increased and jobs are created. There are two complementary reasons for
this. First, the Federal Reserve using monetary policy can set the overall level of
spending in the economy to a level consistent with full employment. With aggregate
spending at the right level, full employment is possible with or without outsourcing,
trade deficits, or trade in general. Second, according to basic economic principles
any increase in the demand for an import will also lead to adjustments in the foreign
exchange market that will induce an equal increase in the demand for the country's
exports of goods or assets. The positive stimulus to employment of the increased
export of goods is direct, that of the increased export of assets is indirect, but both
tend to create jobs in other parts of the economy. Indirect evidence of this inherent
"two-way" nature of trade and that increased outsourcing over the last 30 years has
not likely led to a significant net diversion of employment or output abroad is found
in the relatively stable patterns of employment and output between the domestic
parent and foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational corporations. In addition, there is
evidence of sizable foreign outsourcing to and job creation in the United States.
The destructive aspects of foreign outsourcing are costly and distressing to
those whose jobs are lost to increased imports. Therefore, matters of efficiency and
equity are intertwined and one of the principal challenges for policymakers in the
face of foreign outsourcing (and trade in general) is to find ways to ameliorate the
associated harm, without sacrificing the economy-wide gains that such trade
generates. Compensation for loss and adjustment assistance is thought by economists
to offer the best chance for securing higher economic efficiency along with
distributional equity. This report will be updated as events warrant.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 5:50 AM
Thursday, September 22, 2005
[IWS] ILO: Decent Work & MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG) [14 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Organization (ILO)
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Information folder on Decent Work and the Millennium Development Goals [14 September 2005]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/index.htm
Overview
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/overview.pdf >
Reference materials
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/reference.pdf >
MDG 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg1.pdf >
MDG 2. Achieve universal primary education
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg2.pdf >
MDG 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg3.pdf >
MDG 4. Reduce child mortality
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg4.pdf >
MDG 5. Improve maternal health
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg5.pdf >
MDG 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg6.pdf >
MDG 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg7.pdf >
MDG 8. Develop a global partnership for development
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg8.pdf >
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Organization (ILO)
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Information folder on Decent Work and the Millennium Development Goals [14 September 2005]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/index.htm
Overview
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/overview.pdf >
Reference materials
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/reference.pdf >
MDG 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg1.pdf >
MDG 2. Achieve universal primary education
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg2.pdf >
MDG 3. Promote gender equality and empower women
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg3.pdf >
MDG 4. Reduce child mortality
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg4.pdf >
MDG 5. Improve maternal health
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg5.pdf >
MDG 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg6.pdf >
MDG 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg7.pdf >
MDG 8. Develop a global partnership for development
< http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/exrel/mdg/briefs/mdg8.pdf >
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 1:44 PM
[IWS] ILO: Forced Labour & Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits [March 2005, online September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Office (ILO)
Working Paper
Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour
DECLARATION/WP/42/2005
Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits [March 2005]
by Patrick Belser
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/declaris/DECLARATIONWEB.DOWNLOAD_BLOB?Var_DocumentID=5081
[full-text, 32 pages]
[excerpt]
This Working Paper's objective is to estimate the magnitude of global profits that are being realized
through the exploitation of forced labourers. The paper is thus part of SAP-FL research on the
quantitative and economic dimensions of forced labour and human trafficking. This analysis
complements other research published by SAP-FL, in particular on the economic perspective on human
trafficking in Europe (Working Paper No.31) and on the definition, indicators and measurement of
forced labour (Working Paper No. 18). The calculations in the present analysis also use the result of
another important piece of research, namely the calculation of a minimum estimate of forced labour in
the world. Both the global minimum estimate and some of the figures calculated in this Working Paper
are included in the ILO Director General's 2005 Global Report on forced labour.
The paper's main estimate is that global profits made from forced labourers exploited by private
enterprises or agents reach US$ 44.3 billion every year, of which US$ 31.6 billion from trafficked
victims. The largest profits - more than US$ 15 billion - are made from people trafficked and forced to
work in industrialized countries. These figures show that profits are possibly much larger than has so far
been recognized in the estimates of other national or international organizations. They also support the
view that trafficking thrives because it is lucrative and that policy measures to combat this scourge must
include the confiscation of the financial assets of those involved in trafficking across or within borders.
I thank Mr. Belser for undertaking this experimental assignment and hope that this analysis will be
heard and debated. I also hope that it will help to raise awareness and contribute to mobilize the world
against forced labour and human trafficking.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Office (ILO)
Working Paper
Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour
DECLARATION/WP/42/2005
Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits [March 2005]
by Patrick Belser
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/declaris/DECLARATIONWEB.DOWNLOAD_BLOB?Var_DocumentID=5081
[full-text, 32 pages]
[excerpt]
This Working Paper's objective is to estimate the magnitude of global profits that are being realized
through the exploitation of forced labourers. The paper is thus part of SAP-FL research on the
quantitative and economic dimensions of forced labour and human trafficking. This analysis
complements other research published by SAP-FL, in particular on the economic perspective on human
trafficking in Europe (Working Paper No.31) and on the definition, indicators and measurement of
forced labour (Working Paper No. 18). The calculations in the present analysis also use the result of
another important piece of research, namely the calculation of a minimum estimate of forced labour in
the world. Both the global minimum estimate and some of the figures calculated in this Working Paper
are included in the ILO Director General's 2005 Global Report on forced labour.
The paper's main estimate is that global profits made from forced labourers exploited by private
enterprises or agents reach US$ 44.3 billion every year, of which US$ 31.6 billion from trafficked
victims. The largest profits - more than US$ 15 billion - are made from people trafficked and forced to
work in industrialized countries. These figures show that profits are possibly much larger than has so far
been recognized in the estimates of other national or international organizations. They also support the
view that trafficking thrives because it is lucrative and that policy measures to combat this scourge must
include the confiscation of the financial assets of those involved in trafficking across or within borders.
I thank Mr. Belser for undertaking this experimental assignment and hope that this analysis will be
heard and debated. I also hope that it will help to raise awareness and contribute to mobilize the world
against forced labour and human trafficking.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 1:43 PM
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
[IWS] CANADA: Weekly Work Report,19 September 2005
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto).
Weekly Work Report for the Week of September 19, 2005
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
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SODEXHO WORKERS STRIKE IN B.C. HOSPITALS : About 1,100 workers who provide cleaning, food service and other health support services at 28 hospitals and health care facilities in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the Fraser Health Authority have been on strike since September 15, although essential services are being maintained. Additional strike votes were held at 7 other facilities in the Fraser Health Authority on September 19. The workers are employees of multinational Sodexho, and are represented by the Hospital Employees Union (HEU) and the B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU). The main issue in the dispute is wages, with the union stating that 90% of workers are paid "poverty-level wages" of $10.15 per hour. They propose an immediate increase to $12.90 per hour, rising to $14.90 per hour over 4 years.
In Alberta, 570 nursing assistants, cleaners and kitchen staff at a number of long term care facilities operated by Capital Care in Alberta ratified an agreement on September 19, providing 8.5% in wage increases and improved medical benefits. The workers are members of CUPE Local 1158.
LINKS:
Hospital Employees Union website at < http://www.heu.org/>http://www.heu.org/
Press release at CUPE Alberta website at < http://www.alberta.cupe.ca/03news/releases/20050920a.htm>
B.C. Labour Relations Board decision B249/2005 (Sept. 15) (7 pages, PDF) re essential services at < http://www.lrb.bc.ca/decisions/B249$2005.pdf>
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CAW REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH DAIMLER CHRYSLER, RATIFIES FORD AGREEMENT: The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Daimler Chrysler announced a tentative agreement on September 20, ahead of a midnight strike deadline. The agreement, still to be ratified, matches the wage, benefit and pension provisions in the Ford agreement reached last week and ratified on September 19. Daimler Chrysler has pledged not to close the 450-worker casting plant in Etobicoke , not to outsource approximately 600 other jobs (mostly truck drivers, janitorial workers and security personnel in Windsor), and to continue to operate 3 shifts at the Brampton and Windsor plants. According to the CAW press release, "Significant changes in work practices were negotiated with the aim of enhancing productivity. However, through the provision of a $70,000 restructuring incentive to encourage early retirement, these initiatives should not result in any involuntary lay-offs."
LINKS:
"CAW settles with Chrysler" in the Toronto Star (Sept. 20) at
< http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1127211477664&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes >
"Ford workers accept low-raise contract" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 19) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050919/RFORD19/TPBusiness/?query=ford >
CAW press release at < http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2005/20/c1651.html >
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WAL-MART TIRE AND LUBE EXPRESS CERTIFIED IN B.C.; QUEBEC LABOUR RELATIONS COMMISSION RULES CLOSING OF JONQUIERE STORE ANTI-UNION: In Cranbrook B.C., workers at a Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express voted in favour of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1518; the union website has posted the BC Labour Relations Board certificate, dated September 7th. According to the UFCW, two other Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express stores in Surrey are awaiting certification decisions by the BCLRB.
A September 15 decision of the Labour Relations Commission of Quebec ruled that Wal-Mart failed to demonstrate that it had not closed in store in Jonquiere to avoid unionization. Wal-Mart had closed the store in April 2005 after the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 503 had been certified to represent the 190 employees and while negotiations for a first collective agreement were underway. The Board has not yet determined appropriate remedies, which may include compensation for the 79 employees who had filed complaints for illegal dismissal.
In a second ruling on September 15, the Quebec Labour Relations Commission refused Wal-Mart's request for the lists of names of people who had signed union cards at their stores. The board ruled that such names must be kept secret to prevent possible reprisals.
LINKS:
"Ex Wal-Mart workers win battle" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 17) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050917.wwalmart0917/BNStory/National/?query=wal-mart >
UFCW press release at < http://www.walmartworkerscanada.com/news.php?articleID=00114>
Quebec Labour Relations Commission decision concerning Jonquiere closing (12 pages, PDF) at < http://www.crt.gouv.qc.ca/decisions/2005/2005QCCRT0502.pdf> and concerning confidentiality of union certification lists (8 pages, PDF) at < http://www.crt.gouv.qc.ca/decisions/2005/2005QCCRT0503.pdf>
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NEW SERVICE CANADA DRAWS FIRE FROM PSAC: Service Canada, a new federal government initiative, was officially announced on September 14. Service Canada aims to provide "one-stop" service to Canadians by integrating services from a number of federal departments and providing those services by phone, Internet or in person. Features will be rolled out over the next three years, although some services have already been operating; for example, individuals have been able to apply and file all the necessary reports for Employment Insurance benefits online, and employers have been able to file Record of Employment Service forms online. To promote a positive service attitude, Service Standards and a Service Charter will be established, an Office of Client Satisfaction will take input from Canadians, and an annual Performance Scorecard will be made public.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada, which represents the front-line workers whose jobs are involved, has criticized the government for failing to consult citizens or union members in the development of Service Canada. The PSAC website states: "The federal government is about to further reduce the quality of services to Canadians by closing regional offices of the Public Service Commission. Hundreds of jobs will be lost and millions of Canadians will no longer have access to services that are available in larger urban centres". As a result, "PSAC will not promote nor participate in any initiative that will compromise the quality of services to Canadians or cut public sector jobs. "
LINKS:
"Service Canada open for business" at the Service Canada website at < http://servicecanada.gc.ca/en/whatsnew.html>l and < http://servicecanada.gc.ca/en/about/release.html>
Public Service Alliance of Canada statement on Service Canada at < http://www.psac-afpc.org/issues/service-e.shtml>
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PROCEDURES FOR YOUNGER WORKERS IN B.C. ARE IGNORED: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published an extensive report entitled Child and Youth Employment Standards: The Experience of Young Workers Under British Columbia's New Policy Regime. In 2003 British Columbia altered the regulations for the employment of children and youth. The study suggests that these new regulations are not being followed, putting children at risk. British Columbia, according to the report, provides less protection for child workers than other jurisdictions in Canada, the United States and the European Union.
LINK:
Child and Youth Employment Standards: The Experience of Young Workers Under British Columbia's New Policy Regime (41 pages, PDF) at < http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/BC_Office_Pubs/bc_2005/child_youth_employment.pdf >
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ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION REVIEW: As he approaches the end of his term as Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Keith Norton has initiated a consultation concerning the human rights system in the province to find ways to render the system more effective. The Commission has issued a discussion paper and collected responses to it. It will hold a series of focus group sessions, the results of which will be released as a consultation report. In releasing the 2004-2005 Annual Report of the OHRC in July 2005, Mr. Norton stated, "I am concerned by the lack of Government response to our repeated requests for procedural amendments to the Human Rights Code or additional resources to deal with the growing number of new complaints filed each year."
LINKS:
Overview of the consultation process at the OHRC website at < http://www.ohrc.on.ca/english/consultations/human-rights-review-discussion.shtml >
Discussion paper (40 pages, PDF) at the OHRC website at < http://www.ohrc.on.ca/english/consultations/human-rights-review-discussion-paper.pdf >
2004-2005 Annual Report of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (HTML or PDF) at < http://www.ohrc.on.ca/english/publications/2004-2005-annual-report.shtml >
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W.P. KELLY AWARD ESTABLISHED: On September 15, Canada's Minister of Labour and Housing announced the creation of the W.P. Kelly Award to honour William Patrick Kelly, an outstanding Canadian mediator, the founder of the Canadian Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and at the time of his retirement in 1989, an Associate Deputy Minister of Labour. According to the government press release, the award will be presented once every two years, to a mediator who embodies the qualities Mr. Kelly demonstrated during his long public service career as "Canada's chief mediator."
LINKS:
Government of Canada press release at < http://nouvelles.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=169279 &>
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SUMMARY OF CANADIAN SALARY SURVEYS FOR 2006: The Canadian HR Reporter online has prepared a brief summary of the results of the 2006 salary surveys published by Canadian consulting firms. The firms included in the overview are Watson Wyatt, Mercer, WorldatWork, Morneau Sobeco, Hewitt and Hay Group. A more detailed summary is promised in the October 10, 2005 issue of Canadian HR Reporter.
LINKS:
"Salary survey season" in the online Canadian HR Reporter (Sept. 14) at < http://www.hrreporter.com/loginarea/members/viewing.asp?ArticleNo=3984 >
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BEST EMPLOYERS FOR OLDER WORKERS: Awards were made to The Best Employers for 50-Plus at the Summit on the Mature Workforce conference in Toronto on September 19th. The awards, sponsored by Canada's Association for the Fifty-Plus (CARP), and FGIworld, are awarded for excellence in the key areas of hiring, training, career development, health care, employee and family benefits, retirement policy, pensions, and pre- and post-retirement support systems. Awards were presented to 11 organizations, including Carrier Trucks Centers ( Brantford); Catholic Children's Aid Society (Toronto) ; City of Calgary; Direct Energy (Toronto); Excell Services (Penticton); Flexo Products (Niagara Falls); Home Instead (Toronto); Merck Frosst, (Montreal); Orkin/ PCO Services (Mississauga); Seven Oaks General Hospital, (Winnipeg), and Toronto Auto Auctions (Milton).
LINKS:
"Few firms adopt plans to retain aging staff" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 20) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050920/RWORKPLACE20/TPBusiness/Canadian >
Mature workforce summit website at < http://www.summitonthematureworkforce.ca/>
----------
FAMILY VIOLENCE AS A WORKPLACE ISSUE: The Family Violence Prevention Fund in the U.S. hosts a website urging employers to see domestic violence as a workplace issue, and provides tools and examples for employers and unions. Another website by the Safe at Work coalition also covers this issue.
LINKS:
Strategic employer responses to domestic violence: a crucial human resource challenge at the Family Violence Prevention website at < http://endabuse.org/workplace/>
Safe at work coalition at < http://www.safeatworkcoalition.org/>
----------
U.S. SURVEY MEASURES TRENDS IN HEALTH BENEFITS : The 2005 Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey was released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust on September 14, providing a detailed examination of the trends in employer-based health coverage in the U.S. The survey shows that only 60% of firms offered health care coverage to workers in 2005, a significant decrease from 69% in 2000 and 66% in 2003. The decline is concentrated among small businesses; the survey finds that 98% of firms with 200 or more workers do offer health care coverage. Premiums increased by an average of 9.2% in 2005, with annual premiums for family coverage reaching $10,880 in 2005. The average worker paid $2,713 towards that total premium. The 2005 survey included 2,995 randomly selected public and private firms with three or more employees.
LINKS:
Employer Health Benefits Survey website at < http://www.kff.org/insurance/7315/index.cfm>
----------
CANADIAN SOCIAL PROGRAMS SUFFERING FROM REGIONALISM: On September 15, the international network Social Watch released its 2005 report on international social development and equality. Roars and Whispers: Gender and Poverty: Promises vs. Action includes thematic chapters and profiles of approximately 50 countries.
Armine Yalnizyan, a graduate of the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and its Morley Gunderson Prize winner in 2005, has authored Canada's contribution to the report since 2000. In the Canadian chapter, Divided and distracted: regionalism as an obstacle to reducing poverty and inequality, she argues that federal reinvestment in social programs has failed to reduce poverty because there is no national unity of purpose and because governmental priorities have focused on tax cuts and debt reduction.
LINKS:
Social Watch 2005: Roars and Whispers: Gender and Poverty: Promises vs. Action at < http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/tablaDeContenidos2005.htm > (available in chapters or as a full report of 260 pages).
Divided and distracted: regionalism as an obstacle to reducing poverty and inequality (3 pages, PDF) < http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/pdfs/canada2005_eng.pdf >
----------
WOMEN'S POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: Another report released in September, by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), evaluates international progress in eliminating poverty and inequality for women. The report documents gender differences in working conditions in the formal and informal economics around the world, and concludes with 4 core priorities for government policy.
LINKS:
Overview (12 pages, PDF) at < http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_overview_eng.pdf >
Progress of the world's women 2005 (115 pages, PDF) at < http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_eng.pdf>
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Book of the Week: Working Across Cultures
Author: John Hooker
Publisher: Stanford Business Books
ISBN: 0-8647-4807-1
Cultural understanding is indispensable for people who live and work abroad or in multicultural settings, but few have appropriate knowledge and training in this area. This book begins by refuting the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the level of etiquette. Distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures, the author examines the roles of authority, individualism, competition, security, negotiation, contracts, supervision, lifestyle, and even humor in different cultures. The book concludes with a comprehensive reading list for more than one hundred countries.
About the Author: John Hooker is the Holloran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Carnegie Mellon University.
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121 St. George Street, Toronto Canada http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cir
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(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto).
Weekly Work Report for the Week of September 19, 2005
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
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SODEXHO WORKERS STRIKE IN B.C. HOSPITALS : About 1,100 workers who provide cleaning, food service and other health support services at 28 hospitals and health care facilities in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and the Fraser Health Authority have been on strike since September 15, although essential services are being maintained. Additional strike votes were held at 7 other facilities in the Fraser Health Authority on September 19. The workers are employees of multinational Sodexho, and are represented by the Hospital Employees Union (HEU) and the B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU). The main issue in the dispute is wages, with the union stating that 90% of workers are paid "poverty-level wages" of $10.15 per hour. They propose an immediate increase to $12.90 per hour, rising to $14.90 per hour over 4 years.
In Alberta, 570 nursing assistants, cleaners and kitchen staff at a number of long term care facilities operated by Capital Care in Alberta ratified an agreement on September 19, providing 8.5% in wage increases and improved medical benefits. The workers are members of CUPE Local 1158.
LINKS:
Hospital Employees Union website at < http://www.heu.org/>http://www.heu.org/
Press release at CUPE Alberta website at < http://www.alberta.cupe.ca/03news/releases/20050920a.htm>
B.C. Labour Relations Board decision B249/2005 (Sept. 15) (7 pages, PDF) re essential services at < http://www.lrb.bc.ca/decisions/B249$2005.pdf>
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CAW REACHES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH DAIMLER CHRYSLER, RATIFIES FORD AGREEMENT: The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Daimler Chrysler announced a tentative agreement on September 20, ahead of a midnight strike deadline. The agreement, still to be ratified, matches the wage, benefit and pension provisions in the Ford agreement reached last week and ratified on September 19. Daimler Chrysler has pledged not to close the 450-worker casting plant in Etobicoke , not to outsource approximately 600 other jobs (mostly truck drivers, janitorial workers and security personnel in Windsor), and to continue to operate 3 shifts at the Brampton and Windsor plants. According to the CAW press release, "Significant changes in work practices were negotiated with the aim of enhancing productivity. However, through the provision of a $70,000 restructuring incentive to encourage early retirement, these initiatives should not result in any involuntary lay-offs."
LINKS:
"CAW settles with Chrysler" in the Toronto Star (Sept. 20) at
< http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1127211477664&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes >
"Ford workers accept low-raise contract" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 19) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050919/RFORD19/TPBusiness/?query=ford >
CAW press release at < http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2005/20/c1651.html >
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WAL-MART TIRE AND LUBE EXPRESS CERTIFIED IN B.C.; QUEBEC LABOUR RELATIONS COMMISSION RULES CLOSING OF JONQUIERE STORE ANTI-UNION: In Cranbrook B.C., workers at a Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express voted in favour of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1518; the union website has posted the BC Labour Relations Board certificate, dated September 7th. According to the UFCW, two other Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express stores in Surrey are awaiting certification decisions by the BCLRB.
A September 15 decision of the Labour Relations Commission of Quebec ruled that Wal-Mart failed to demonstrate that it had not closed in store in Jonquiere to avoid unionization. Wal-Mart had closed the store in April 2005 after the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 503 had been certified to represent the 190 employees and while negotiations for a first collective agreement were underway. The Board has not yet determined appropriate remedies, which may include compensation for the 79 employees who had filed complaints for illegal dismissal.
In a second ruling on September 15, the Quebec Labour Relations Commission refused Wal-Mart's request for the lists of names of people who had signed union cards at their stores. The board ruled that such names must be kept secret to prevent possible reprisals.
LINKS:
"Ex Wal-Mart workers win battle" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 17) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050917.wwalmart0917/BNStory/National/?query=wal-mart >
UFCW press release at < http://www.walmartworkerscanada.com/news.php?articleID=00114>
Quebec Labour Relations Commission decision concerning Jonquiere closing (12 pages, PDF) at < http://www.crt.gouv.qc.ca/decisions/2005/2005QCCRT0502.pdf> and concerning confidentiality of union certification lists (8 pages, PDF) at < http://www.crt.gouv.qc.ca/decisions/2005/2005QCCRT0503.pdf>
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NEW SERVICE CANADA DRAWS FIRE FROM PSAC: Service Canada, a new federal government initiative, was officially announced on September 14. Service Canada aims to provide "one-stop" service to Canadians by integrating services from a number of federal departments and providing those services by phone, Internet or in person. Features will be rolled out over the next three years, although some services have already been operating; for example, individuals have been able to apply and file all the necessary reports for Employment Insurance benefits online, and employers have been able to file Record of Employment Service forms online. To promote a positive service attitude, Service Standards and a Service Charter will be established, an Office of Client Satisfaction will take input from Canadians, and an annual Performance Scorecard will be made public.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada, which represents the front-line workers whose jobs are involved, has criticized the government for failing to consult citizens or union members in the development of Service Canada. The PSAC website states: "The federal government is about to further reduce the quality of services to Canadians by closing regional offices of the Public Service Commission. Hundreds of jobs will be lost and millions of Canadians will no longer have access to services that are available in larger urban centres". As a result, "PSAC will not promote nor participate in any initiative that will compromise the quality of services to Canadians or cut public sector jobs. "
LINKS:
"Service Canada open for business" at the Service Canada website at < http://servicecanada.gc.ca/en/whatsnew.html>l and < http://servicecanada.gc.ca/en/about/release.html>
Public Service Alliance of Canada statement on Service Canada at < http://www.psac-afpc.org/issues/service-e.shtml>
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PROCEDURES FOR YOUNGER WORKERS IN B.C. ARE IGNORED: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published an extensive report entitled Child and Youth Employment Standards: The Experience of Young Workers Under British Columbia's New Policy Regime. In 2003 British Columbia altered the regulations for the employment of children and youth. The study suggests that these new regulations are not being followed, putting children at risk. British Columbia, according to the report, provides less protection for child workers than other jurisdictions in Canada, the United States and the European Union.
LINK:
Child and Youth Employment Standards: The Experience of Young Workers Under British Columbia's New Policy Regime (41 pages, PDF) at < http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/BC_Office_Pubs/bc_2005/child_youth_employment.pdf >
----------
ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION REVIEW: As he approaches the end of his term as Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Keith Norton has initiated a consultation concerning the human rights system in the province to find ways to render the system more effective. The Commission has issued a discussion paper and collected responses to it. It will hold a series of focus group sessions, the results of which will be released as a consultation report. In releasing the 2004-2005 Annual Report of the OHRC in July 2005, Mr. Norton stated, "I am concerned by the lack of Government response to our repeated requests for procedural amendments to the Human Rights Code or additional resources to deal with the growing number of new complaints filed each year."
LINKS:
Overview of the consultation process at the OHRC website at < http://www.ohrc.on.ca/english/consultations/human-rights-review-discussion.shtml >
Discussion paper (40 pages, PDF) at the OHRC website at < http://www.ohrc.on.ca/english/consultations/human-rights-review-discussion-paper.pdf >
2004-2005 Annual Report of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (HTML or PDF) at < http://www.ohrc.on.ca/english/publications/2004-2005-annual-report.shtml >
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W.P. KELLY AWARD ESTABLISHED: On September 15, Canada's Minister of Labour and Housing announced the creation of the W.P. Kelly Award to honour William Patrick Kelly, an outstanding Canadian mediator, the founder of the Canadian Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and at the time of his retirement in 1989, an Associate Deputy Minister of Labour. According to the government press release, the award will be presented once every two years, to a mediator who embodies the qualities Mr. Kelly demonstrated during his long public service career as "Canada's chief mediator."
LINKS:
Government of Canada press release at < http://nouvelles.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=169279 &>
----------
SUMMARY OF CANADIAN SALARY SURVEYS FOR 2006: The Canadian HR Reporter online has prepared a brief summary of the results of the 2006 salary surveys published by Canadian consulting firms. The firms included in the overview are Watson Wyatt, Mercer, WorldatWork, Morneau Sobeco, Hewitt and Hay Group. A more detailed summary is promised in the October 10, 2005 issue of Canadian HR Reporter.
LINKS:
"Salary survey season" in the online Canadian HR Reporter (Sept. 14) at < http://www.hrreporter.com/loginarea/members/viewing.asp?ArticleNo=3984 >
----------
BEST EMPLOYERS FOR OLDER WORKERS: Awards were made to The Best Employers for 50-Plus at the Summit on the Mature Workforce conference in Toronto on September 19th. The awards, sponsored by Canada's Association for the Fifty-Plus (CARP), and FGIworld, are awarded for excellence in the key areas of hiring, training, career development, health care, employee and family benefits, retirement policy, pensions, and pre- and post-retirement support systems. Awards were presented to 11 organizations, including Carrier Trucks Centers ( Brantford); Catholic Children's Aid Society (Toronto) ; City of Calgary; Direct Energy (Toronto); Excell Services (Penticton); Flexo Products (Niagara Falls); Home Instead (Toronto); Merck Frosst, (Montreal); Orkin/ PCO Services (Mississauga); Seven Oaks General Hospital, (Winnipeg), and Toronto Auto Auctions (Milton).
LINKS:
"Few firms adopt plans to retain aging staff" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 20) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050920/RWORKPLACE20/TPBusiness/Canadian >
Mature workforce summit website at < http://www.summitonthematureworkforce.ca/>
----------
FAMILY VIOLENCE AS A WORKPLACE ISSUE: The Family Violence Prevention Fund in the U.S. hosts a website urging employers to see domestic violence as a workplace issue, and provides tools and examples for employers and unions. Another website by the Safe at Work coalition also covers this issue.
LINKS:
Strategic employer responses to domestic violence: a crucial human resource challenge at the Family Violence Prevention website at < http://endabuse.org/workplace/>
Safe at work coalition at < http://www.safeatworkcoalition.org/>
----------
U.S. SURVEY MEASURES TRENDS IN HEALTH BENEFITS : The 2005 Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey was released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust on September 14, providing a detailed examination of the trends in employer-based health coverage in the U.S. The survey shows that only 60% of firms offered health care coverage to workers in 2005, a significant decrease from 69% in 2000 and 66% in 2003. The decline is concentrated among small businesses; the survey finds that 98% of firms with 200 or more workers do offer health care coverage. Premiums increased by an average of 9.2% in 2005, with annual premiums for family coverage reaching $10,880 in 2005. The average worker paid $2,713 towards that total premium. The 2005 survey included 2,995 randomly selected public and private firms with three or more employees.
LINKS:
Employer Health Benefits Survey website at < http://www.kff.org/insurance/7315/index.cfm>
----------
CANADIAN SOCIAL PROGRAMS SUFFERING FROM REGIONALISM: On September 15, the international network Social Watch released its 2005 report on international social development and equality. Roars and Whispers: Gender and Poverty: Promises vs. Action includes thematic chapters and profiles of approximately 50 countries.
Armine Yalnizyan, a graduate of the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and its Morley Gunderson Prize winner in 2005, has authored Canada's contribution to the report since 2000. In the Canadian chapter, Divided and distracted: regionalism as an obstacle to reducing poverty and inequality, she argues that federal reinvestment in social programs has failed to reduce poverty because there is no national unity of purpose and because governmental priorities have focused on tax cuts and debt reduction.
LINKS:
Social Watch 2005: Roars and Whispers: Gender and Poverty: Promises vs. Action at < http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/tablaDeContenidos2005.htm > (available in chapters or as a full report of 260 pages).
Divided and distracted: regionalism as an obstacle to reducing poverty and inequality (3 pages, PDF) < http://www.socialwatch.org/en/informeImpreso/pdfs/canada2005_eng.pdf >
----------
WOMEN'S POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: Another report released in September, by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), evaluates international progress in eliminating poverty and inequality for women. The report documents gender differences in working conditions in the formal and informal economics around the world, and concludes with 4 core priorities for government policy.
LINKS:
Overview (12 pages, PDF) at < http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_overview_eng.pdf >
Progress of the world's women 2005 (115 pages, PDF) at < http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_eng.pdf>
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Book of the Week: Working Across Cultures
Author: John Hooker
Publisher: Stanford Business Books
ISBN: 0-8647-4807-1
Cultural understanding is indispensable for people who live and work abroad or in multicultural settings, but few have appropriate knowledge and training in this area. This book begins by refuting the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the level of etiquette. Distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures, the author examines the roles of authority, individualism, competition, security, negotiation, contracts, supervision, lifestyle, and even humor in different cultures. The book concludes with a comprehensive reading list for more than one hundred countries.
About the Author: John Hooker is the Holloran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Carnegie Mellon University.
----------
121 St. George Street, Toronto Canada http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cir
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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[IWS] (CLARIFICATION) Dublin Foundation: [41] CASE STUDIES on EWCs [September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
PLEASE NOTE: I have been informed that --
"In total there are 41 case studies on EWCs. They will all be on the Web soon.
The consolidated report on these 41 case studies had been published by the European Foundation in 2004.
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/htmlfiles/ef04109.htm "
Thanks to -
Dr. Anni Weiler
AWWW GmbH
ArbeitsWelt - Working World
Hohe Linde 9
37075 Göttingen
Germany
See -
European Works Councils in Practice
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF04109EN.pdf
[full-text, 154 pages]
All of the CASE STUDIES will eventually appear at -
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/bysubject/listindustrialrelations2005.htm
***********************
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Works Councils case studies: British Airways (BA)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05711EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). BAs EWC was established after some
conflict between management and the trades unions.
European Works Councils case studies: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05712EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Both the companies that merged to
form GSK in December 2000 had established EWCs under this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: HSBC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05713EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC was established as the HSBC
European Council in September 1996 and was subsequently revised in
November 2001.
European Works Councils case studies: Amersham
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05719EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Amersham's EWC is relatively new,
established only at the end of 1999.
European Works Councils case studies: The BOC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057110EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Group In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive
on the establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of
informing and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BOC EWC was set up as
the BOC group European forum (BOCEF) in 1996 and was a voluntary
agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: The British American Tobacco Company
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057111EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BAT EWC was set up in 1996 under
this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: The Royal and Sun Alliance Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057112EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The establishment of the R&SA EWC or
European Consultation Forum (ECF) was an extended process influenced by
corporate developments.
European Works Councils case studies: Allianz Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057113EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreements on the establishment
of the Allianz European Committee (AEC) were completed on 24 July 1996,
according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Bayer Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057114EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The Bayer European forum was set up
in 1991, based on a written agreement between the company works council
and Bayer AGs central management.
European Works Councils case studies: The DaimlerChrysler Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057115EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). After a European Works Council (EWC)
was established in 1996, the European distribution committee (europäischer
Vertriebsarbeitskreis) was integrated, as it were, as an EWC committee.
The corresponding agreement was concluded between the German works council
and group management in July 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Deutsche Bank
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057116EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of Deutsche Bank was founded
on September 10 1996, just before the deadline for the establishment of
voluntary EWCs according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Kraft Foods
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057117EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Kraft Foods has had a European Works
Council since 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Assa Abloy
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057118EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed in
September 1996 in accordance with Article 13 of the EU Directive and the
Swedish EWC law (1996:359).
European Works Councils case studies: Atlas Copco
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057119EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement on the European works
council was reached on 11 October 1995 under Article 13 of the Directive
and has since been reviewed and renewed in 2001.The main reason for
renewal was to admit countries with sales and service operations into the
council.
European Works Councils case studies: Electrolux AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057120EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement of the Electrolux
European Works Council (EWC) was signed in accordance with Article 13 on 3
February 1995 and renewed on 23 March 2001, and is valid through to 2007.
European Works Councils case studies: Securitas AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057121EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was set up under
Article 13 in June 1996. It was a joint initiative from the management and
the Swedish transport workers union in Securitas.
European Works Councils case studies: SKF
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057122EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). SKF started a world council in 1974.
When an EWC became a requirement it was logical for SKF to build on the
experiences of the world council. The EWC in SKF is like most EWCs in
Sweden, a union-only forum.
European Works Councils case studies: Swedish Match
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057123EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed on 9
October 1997 suggesting an Article 6 agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: IKEA
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057124EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of IKEA was established
rather late in 1999 after a long series of initiatives and negotiations.
The agreement is based on Article 13.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
PLEASE NOTE: I have been informed that --
"In total there are 41 case studies on EWCs. They will all be on the Web soon.
The consolidated report on these 41 case studies had been published by the European Foundation in 2004.
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/htmlfiles/ef04109.htm "
Thanks to -
Dr. Anni Weiler
AWWW GmbH
ArbeitsWelt - Working World
Hohe Linde 9
37075 Göttingen
Germany
See -
European Works Councils in Practice
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF04109EN.pdf
[full-text, 154 pages]
All of the CASE STUDIES will eventually appear at -
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/bysubject/listindustrialrelations2005.htm
***********************
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Works Councils case studies: British Airways (BA)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05711EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). BAs EWC was established after some
conflict between management and the trades unions.
European Works Councils case studies: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05712EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Both the companies that merged to
form GSK in December 2000 had established EWCs under this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: HSBC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05713EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC was established as the HSBC
European Council in September 1996 and was subsequently revised in
November 2001.
European Works Councils case studies: Amersham
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05719EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Amersham's EWC is relatively new,
established only at the end of 1999.
European Works Councils case studies: The BOC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057110EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Group In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive
on the establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of
informing and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BOC EWC was set up as
the BOC group European forum (BOCEF) in 1996 and was a voluntary
agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: The British American Tobacco Company
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057111EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BAT EWC was set up in 1996 under
this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: The Royal and Sun Alliance Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057112EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The establishment of the R&SA EWC or
European Consultation Forum (ECF) was an extended process influenced by
corporate developments.
European Works Councils case studies: Allianz Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057113EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreements on the establishment
of the Allianz European Committee (AEC) were completed on 24 July 1996,
according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Bayer Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057114EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The Bayer European forum was set up
in 1991, based on a written agreement between the company works council
and Bayer AGs central management.
European Works Councils case studies: The DaimlerChrysler Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057115EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). After a European Works Council (EWC)
was established in 1996, the European distribution committee (europäischer
Vertriebsarbeitskreis) was integrated, as it were, as an EWC committee.
The corresponding agreement was concluded between the German works council
and group management in July 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Deutsche Bank
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057116EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of Deutsche Bank was founded
on September 10 1996, just before the deadline for the establishment of
voluntary EWCs according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Kraft Foods
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057117EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Kraft Foods has had a European Works
Council since 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Assa Abloy
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057118EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed in
September 1996 in accordance with Article 13 of the EU Directive and the
Swedish EWC law (1996:359).
European Works Councils case studies: Atlas Copco
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057119EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement on the European works
council was reached on 11 October 1995 under Article 13 of the Directive
and has since been reviewed and renewed in 2001.The main reason for
renewal was to admit countries with sales and service operations into the
council.
European Works Councils case studies: Electrolux AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057120EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement of the Electrolux
European Works Council (EWC) was signed in accordance with Article 13 on 3
February 1995 and renewed on 23 March 2001, and is valid through to 2007.
European Works Councils case studies: Securitas AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057121EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was set up under
Article 13 in June 1996. It was a joint initiative from the management and
the Swedish transport workers union in Securitas.
European Works Councils case studies: SKF
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057122EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). SKF started a world council in 1974.
When an EWC became a requirement it was logical for SKF to build on the
experiences of the world council. The EWC in SKF is like most EWCs in
Sweden, a union-only forum.
European Works Councils case studies: Swedish Match
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057123EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed on 9
October 1997 suggesting an Article 6 agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: IKEA
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057124EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of IKEA was established
rather late in 1999 after a long series of initiatives and negotiations.
The agreement is based on Article 13.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 10:51 AM
[IWS] Dublin Foundation: IMPACT of TRAINING on EMPLOYABILITY [September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Impact of training on people�s employability
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05110EN.pdf
[full-text, 72 pages]
Data from national working conditions surveys and other sources reveal
that fixed-term and temporary agency contract holders in the European
Union are at a disadvantage in terms of access to both training and
competence development in companies. A number of relevant indicators in
the surveys highlight this fact. Such national data tend to confirm the
research findings of the European Working Conditions Surveys, carried out
by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions in 1990, 1995 and 2000-1, and offer further insights into this
issue. This study examines the issue of training and employability,
focusing on those workers on fixed-term and temporary agency contracts.
Contents include--
Introduction
Training and non-permanent employment
Fixed-term workers
Temporary agency workers
National initiatives and company best practices
Commentary
References
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
Impact of training on people�s employability
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05110EN.pdf
[full-text, 72 pages]
Data from national working conditions surveys and other sources reveal
that fixed-term and temporary agency contract holders in the European
Union are at a disadvantage in terms of access to both training and
competence development in companies. A number of relevant indicators in
the surveys highlight this fact. Such national data tend to confirm the
research findings of the European Working Conditions Surveys, carried out
by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions in 1990, 1995 and 2000-1, and offer further insights into this
issue. This study examines the issue of training and employability,
focusing on those workers on fixed-term and temporary agency contracts.
Contents include--
Introduction
Training and non-permanent employment
Fixed-term workers
Temporary agency workers
National initiatives and company best practices
Commentary
References
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 10:39 AM
[IWS] Dublin Foundation: 19 CASE STUDIES on EWCs [September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Works Councils case studies: British Airways (BA)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05711EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). BAs EWC was established after some
conflict between management and the trades unions.
European Works Councils case studies: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05712EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Both the companies that merged to
form GSK in December 2000 had established EWCs under this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: HSBC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05713EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC was established as the HSBC
European Council in September 1996 and was subsequently revised in
November 2001.
European Works Councils case studies: Amersham
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05719EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Amersham's EWC is relatively new,
established only at the end of 1999.
European Works Councils case studies: The BOC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057110EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Group In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive
on the establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of
informing and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BOC EWC was set up as
the BOC group European forum (BOCEF) in 1996 and was a voluntary
agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: The British American Tobacco Company
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057111EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BAT EWC was set up in 1996 under
this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: The Royal and Sun Alliance Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057112EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The establishment of the R&SA EWC or
European Consultation Forum (ECF) was an extended process influenced by
corporate developments.
European Works Councils case studies: Allianz Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057113EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreements on the establishment
of the Allianz European Committee (AEC) were completed on 24 July 1996,
according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Bayer Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057114EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The Bayer European forum was set up
in 1991, based on a written agreement between the company works council
and Bayer AGs central management.
European Works Councils case studies: The DaimlerChrysler Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057115EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). After a European Works Council (EWC)
was established in 1996, the European distribution committee (europäischer
Vertriebsarbeitskreis) was integrated, as it were, as an EWC committee.
The corresponding agreement was concluded between the German works council
and group management in July 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Deutsche Bank
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057116EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of Deutsche Bank was founded
on September 10 1996, just before the deadline for the establishment of
voluntary EWCs according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Kraft Foods
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057117EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Kraft Foods has had a European Works
Council since 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Assa Abloy
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057118EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed in
September 1996 in accordance with Article 13 of the EU Directive and the
Swedish EWC law (1996:359).
European Works Councils case studies: Atlas Copco
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057119EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement on the European works
council was reached on 11 October 1995 under Article 13 of the Directive
and has since been reviewed and renewed in 2001.The main reason for
renewal was to admit countries with sales and service operations into the
council.
European Works Councils case studies: Electrolux AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057120EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement of the Electrolux
European Works Council (EWC) was signed in accordance with Article 13 on 3
February 1995 and renewed on 23 March 2001, and is valid through to 2007.
European Works Councils case studies: Securitas AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057121EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was set up under
Article 13 in June 1996. It was a joint initiative from the management and
the Swedish transport workers union in Securitas.
European Works Councils case studies: SKF
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057122EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). SKF started a world council in 1974.
When an EWC became a requirement it was logical for SKF to build on the
experiences of the world council. The EWC in SKF is like most EWCs in
Sweden, a union-only forum.
European Works Councils case studies: Swedish Match
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057123EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed on 9
October 1997 suggesting an Article 6 agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: IKEA
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057124EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of IKEA was established
rather late in 1999 after a long series of initiatives and negotiations.
The agreement is based on Article 13.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Works Councils case studies: British Airways (BA)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05711EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). BAs EWC was established after some
conflict between management and the trades unions.
European Works Councils case studies: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05712EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Both the companies that merged to
form GSK in December 2000 had established EWCs under this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: HSBC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05713EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC was established as the HSBC
European Council in September 1996 and was subsequently revised in
November 2001.
European Works Councils case studies: Amersham
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF05719EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Amersham's EWC is relatively new,
established only at the end of 1999.
European Works Councils case studies: The BOC
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057110EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
Group In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive
on the establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of
informing and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BOC EWC was set up as
the BOC group European forum (BOCEF) in 1996 and was a voluntary
agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: The British American Tobacco Company
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057111EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The BAT EWC was set up in 1996 under
this Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: The Royal and Sun Alliance Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057112EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The establishment of the R&SA EWC or
European Consultation Forum (ECF) was an extended process influenced by
corporate developments.
European Works Councils case studies: Allianz Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057113EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreements on the establishment
of the Allianz European Committee (AEC) were completed on 24 July 1996,
according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Bayer Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057114EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The Bayer European forum was set up
in 1991, based on a written agreement between the company works council
and Bayer AGs central management.
European Works Councils case studies: The DaimlerChrysler Group
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057115EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). After a European Works Council (EWC)
was established in 1996, the European distribution committee (europäischer
Vertriebsarbeitskreis) was integrated, as it were, as an EWC committee.
The corresponding agreement was concluded between the German works council
and group management in July 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Deutsche Bank
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057116EN.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of Deutsche Bank was founded
on September 10 1996, just before the deadline for the establishment of
voluntary EWCs according to Article 13 of the EWC Directive.
European Works Councils case studies: Kraft Foods
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057117EN.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). Kraft Foods has had a European Works
Council since 1996.
European Works Councils case studies: Assa Abloy
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057118EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed in
September 1996 in accordance with Article 13 of the EU Directive and the
Swedish EWC law (1996:359).
European Works Councils case studies: Atlas Copco
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057119EN.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement on the European works
council was reached on 11 October 1995 under Article 13 of the Directive
and has since been reviewed and renewed in 2001.The main reason for
renewal was to admit countries with sales and service operations into the
council.
European Works Councils case studies: Electrolux AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057120EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The agreement of the Electrolux
European Works Council (EWC) was signed in accordance with Article 13 on 3
February 1995 and renewed on 23 March 2001, and is valid through to 2007.
European Works Councils case studies: Securitas AB
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057121EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was set up under
Article 13 in June 1996. It was a joint initiative from the management and
the Swedish transport workers union in Securitas.
European Works Councils case studies: SKF
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057122EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). SKF started a world council in 1974.
When an EWC became a requirement it was logical for SKF to build on the
experiences of the world council. The EWC in SKF is like most EWCs in
Sweden, a union-only forum.
European Works Councils case studies: Swedish Match
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057123EN.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC agreement was signed on 9
October 1997 suggesting an Article 6 agreement.
European Works Councils case studies: IKEA
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/publications/files/EF057124EN.pdf
[full-text, 9 pages]
In September 1994, the Council of Ministers decided on a Directive on the
establishment of a European Works Council for the purposes of informing
and consulting employees (94/45/EC). The EWC of IKEA was established
rather late in 1999 after a long series of initiatives and negotiations.
The agreement is based on Article 13.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 10:30 AM
Monday, September 19, 2005
[IWS] EU: GLOBAL SAFETY & HEALTH PORTAL Established [14 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
GLOBAL NETWORK HOMEPAGE
http://osha.eu.int/OSHA
EU launches new global safety and health portal [14 September 2005]
http://osha.eu.int/press_room/050914_GlobalPortal
The new online information portal is operated by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and is based on the most advanced Internet technology.
Our new website is the first global portal to occupational safety and health information for people involved in risk prevention at work. It has been designed to offer the best possible support to a growing number of workplaces that are concerned about safety and health and need practical information to address their risks," explains Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, the Agency's Director. "A world of safety and health knowledge is now available right at your fingertips. I hope that our new information system will lead to improved workplace health and safety and help reduce the large human and economic toll paid due to accidents and ill-health at work."
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
GLOBAL NETWORK HOMEPAGE
http://osha.eu.int/OSHA
EU launches new global safety and health portal [14 September 2005]
http://osha.eu.int/press_room/050914_GlobalPortal
The new online information portal is operated by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and is based on the most advanced Internet technology.
Our new website is the first global portal to occupational safety and health information for people involved in risk prevention at work. It has been designed to offer the best possible support to a growing number of workplaces that are concerned about safety and health and need practical information to address their risks," explains Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, the Agency's Director. "A world of safety and health knowledge is now available right at your fingertips. I hope that our new information system will lead to improved workplace health and safety and help reduce the large human and economic toll paid due to accidents and ill-health at work."
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 2:04 PM
[IWS] ILO: GLOBAL WORKPLACE DEATHS UNDER-REPORTED [18 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Produced for the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
(Orlando, 18-22 Sep. 2005)
Introductory Report: Decent Work Safe Work
by
Dr. J. Takala, Director, SafeWork
International Labour Office, Geneva
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/wdcongrs17/intrep.pdf
[full-text, 50 pages]
[excerpt]
This report provides an overview of the most recent estimates of occupational and
work-related accidents and diseases, world-wide, some of the causes for recent
changes and what the ILO and its member States are doing to improve conditions in
the workplace for the millions who are at risk from injury.
See Press Release-
Global workplace deaths vastly under-reported, says ILO 18 September 2005
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/36.htm
ORLANDO, Florida (ILO News) - Some 2.2 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases each year, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in a new report to be issued Monday at the 17th World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, adding this number may be vastly under estimated due to poor reporting and coverage systems in many countries.
While the number of work-related illnesses and deaths has lessened somewhat in the industrialized countries, the ILO report said the number of accidents - in particular fatal accidents - appear to be increasing, particularly in some Asian countries due to poor reporting, rapid development and strong competitive pressures of globalization.
"Occupational safety and health is vital to the dignity of work", said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. "Still, every day, on average, some 5,000 or more women and men around the world lose their lives because of work-related accidents and illness. Decent Work must be safe work, and we are a long way from achieving that goal."
What's more, the ILO report, entitled Decent Work - Safe Work, ILO Introductory Report to the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Orlando, USA, also warns that work-related malaria and other communicable diseases as well as cancers caused by hazardous substances are taking a huge toll, mostly in the developing world. The majority of the global workforce lacks legal or preventive safety or health measures, accident or illness compensation and has no access to occupational health services.
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Produced for the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
(Orlando, 18-22 Sep. 2005)
Introductory Report: Decent Work Safe Work
by
Dr. J. Takala, Director, SafeWork
International Labour Office, Geneva
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/wdcongrs17/intrep.pdf
[full-text, 50 pages]
[excerpt]
This report provides an overview of the most recent estimates of occupational and
work-related accidents and diseases, world-wide, some of the causes for recent
changes and what the ILO and its member States are doing to improve conditions in
the workplace for the millions who are at risk from injury.
See Press Release-
Global workplace deaths vastly under-reported, says ILO 18 September 2005
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/36.htm
ORLANDO, Florida (ILO News) - Some 2.2 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases each year, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in a new report to be issued Monday at the 17th World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, adding this number may be vastly under estimated due to poor reporting and coverage systems in many countries.
While the number of work-related illnesses and deaths has lessened somewhat in the industrialized countries, the ILO report said the number of accidents - in particular fatal accidents - appear to be increasing, particularly in some Asian countries due to poor reporting, rapid development and strong competitive pressures of globalization.
"Occupational safety and health is vital to the dignity of work", said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. "Still, every day, on average, some 5,000 or more women and men around the world lose their lives because of work-related accidents and illness. Decent Work must be safe work, and we are a long way from achieving that goal."
What's more, the ILO report, entitled Decent Work - Safe Work, ILO Introductory Report to the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Orlando, USA, also warns that work-related malaria and other communicable diseases as well as cancers caused by hazardous substances are taking a huge toll, mostly in the developing world. The majority of the global workforce lacks legal or preventive safety or health measures, accident or illness compensation and has no access to occupational health services.
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 1:52 PM
Friday, September 16, 2005
[IWS] WOMEN in NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS -- as of 31 August 2005
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
WOMEN in NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS -- as of 31 August 2005
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm
Comparative Data by Country
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
Women in Regional Parliamentary Assemblies
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/regions.htm
_____________________________
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WOMEN in NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS -- as of 31 August 2005
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm
Comparative Data by Country
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
Women in Regional Parliamentary Assemblies
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/regions.htm
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# posted by SBasefsky : 1:20 PM
[IWS] OECD Policy Brief: CHINA Economic Survey 2005 [16 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
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________________________________________________________________________
[Please note: this is the first Economic Survey of China produced by the OECD]
OECD Policy Brief:
Economic Survey of China 2005 [16 September 2005]
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/10/25/35294862.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
See also-
Economic Survey of China 2005
http://www.oecd.org/document/21/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35331797_1_1_1_1,00.html
Executive Summary
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35344877_1_1_1_1,00.html
Press Release, 16 September 2005
China could become worlds largest exporter by 2010
http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35363023_1_1_1_1,00.html
16/09/2005 - China could overtake the US and Germany to become the largest exporter in the world in the next five years. By then, Chinese goods and services could represent as much as 10% of global trade compared with 6% at present, according to the OECD.
In its first Economic Survey of China, the OECD says the current pace of economic growth averaging more than 9% annually over the past two decades shows no sign of slowing. But although economic dynamism has helped reduce the number of Chinese living in absolute poverty, income levels are still low and inequality is on the rise, not only between the cities and rural regions average incomes in the countryside are only one third of those in the cities but also within the more prosperous coastal provinces.
To reduce the gap in incomes, the government should make it easier for people to move from the country to the cities, but urbanisation should be carefully managed, the survey says. Legal restrictions to migration will need to be reduced and land law reformed. The funding of different levels of government will also have to be adapted to meet the health and education needs of a growing urban population as local authorities responsibilities are not always matched by their ability to raise revenues. In addition, anti-pollution laws will need to be enforced more effectively.
As a result of profound shifts in government policies, the private sector is now driving Chinas remarkable economic growth. Well over half of Chinas GDP is produced by privately-controlled enterprises. But more needs to be done to improve the business environment, the survey says. For instance, the amount of capital required to start a company is relatively high. Priorities in this area should be to revise company law, pass a new bankruptcy code and provide stronger protection for property rights.
AND MORE...
_____________________________
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Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
[Please note: this is the first Economic Survey of China produced by the OECD]
OECD Policy Brief:
Economic Survey of China 2005 [16 September 2005]
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/10/25/35294862.pdf
[full-text, 8 pages]
See also-
Economic Survey of China 2005
http://www.oecd.org/document/21/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35331797_1_1_1_1,00.html
Executive Summary
http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35344877_1_1_1_1,00.html
Press Release, 16 September 2005
China could become worlds largest exporter by 2010
http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35363023_1_1_1_1,00.html
16/09/2005 - China could overtake the US and Germany to become the largest exporter in the world in the next five years. By then, Chinese goods and services could represent as much as 10% of global trade compared with 6% at present, according to the OECD.
In its first Economic Survey of China, the OECD says the current pace of economic growth averaging more than 9% annually over the past two decades shows no sign of slowing. But although economic dynamism has helped reduce the number of Chinese living in absolute poverty, income levels are still low and inequality is on the rise, not only between the cities and rural regions average incomes in the countryside are only one third of those in the cities but also within the more prosperous coastal provinces.
To reduce the gap in incomes, the government should make it easier for people to move from the country to the cities, but urbanisation should be carefully managed, the survey says. Legal restrictions to migration will need to be reduced and land law reformed. The funding of different levels of government will also have to be adapted to meet the health and education needs of a growing urban population as local authorities responsibilities are not always matched by their ability to raise revenues. In addition, anti-pollution laws will need to be enforced more effectively.
As a result of profound shifts in government policies, the private sector is now driving Chinas remarkable economic growth. Well over half of Chinas GDP is produced by privately-controlled enterprises. But more needs to be done to improve the business environment, the survey says. For instance, the amount of capital required to start a company is relatively high. Priorities in this area should be to revise company law, pass a new bankruptcy code and provide stronger protection for property rights.
AND MORE...
_____________________________
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Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 1:13 PM
[IWS] Issue Brief: WHERE in the WORLD is YOUR JOB GOING? [16 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Where in the World Is Your Job Going?
by Maralyn Edid, Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS)
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/7/
Suggested Citation
Edid, M. (2005). Where in the World Is Your Job Going? (IWS Issue Briefs). Ithaca, NY: School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/7/
Full-text report at -
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=briefs
[full-text, 7 pages]
[excerpt]
This, then, is the crux of the problem: Economic theory tells us and data support the
premise that trade in goods and services enlarges the size of the economic pie, making a
generalized all of us winners in the long run. What sometimes gets overlooked, though,
is that trade, helped along by technological advances, changes the relative size of the
slices consumed by each specific one of us. This means some industries and some
individuals (e.g., investors, managers, and workers) grow fatter while those whose jobs
migrate offshore are left to feed off the crumbs. In other words, the macro gains that are
disbursed generally across the economy over a period of time impose heavy short-run
costs on particular workers whose skill sets and experience hold little value in the new
order. That we as a nation have not yet determined who, if anyone, is responsible for
easing the burdens of offshoring has made the practice a contentious political issue.
More IWS Issue Briefs by Maralyn Edid can be found at -
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/
The Issue Briefs, sponsored by the Institute for Workplace Studies, provide a summary overview of the debate swirling around workplace-related current events. They are intended as a public service to inform readers about key issues and should not be construed as the opinion of IWS or the ILR School. These articles are based on extant sources, which are listed at the end of the text, and do not reflect original research by the author.
_____________________________
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Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
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New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Where in the World Is Your Job Going?
by Maralyn Edid, Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS)
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/7/
Suggested Citation
Edid, M. (2005). Where in the World Is Your Job Going? (IWS Issue Briefs). Ithaca, NY: School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/7/
Full-text report at -
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=briefs
[full-text, 7 pages]
[excerpt]
This, then, is the crux of the problem: Economic theory tells us and data support the
premise that trade in goods and services enlarges the size of the economic pie, making a
generalized all of us winners in the long run. What sometimes gets overlooked, though,
is that trade, helped along by technological advances, changes the relative size of the
slices consumed by each specific one of us. This means some industries and some
individuals (e.g., investors, managers, and workers) grow fatter while those whose jobs
migrate offshore are left to feed off the crumbs. In other words, the macro gains that are
disbursed generally across the economy over a period of time impose heavy short-run
costs on particular workers whose skill sets and experience hold little value in the new
order. That we as a nation have not yet determined who, if anyone, is responsible for
easing the burdens of offshoring has made the practice a contentious political issue.
More IWS Issue Briefs by Maralyn Edid can be found at -
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/briefs/
The Issue Briefs, sponsored by the Institute for Workplace Studies, provide a summary overview of the debate swirling around workplace-related current events. They are intended as a public service to inform readers about key issues and should not be construed as the opinion of IWS or the ILR School. These articles are based on extant sources, which are listed at the end of the text, and do not reflect original research by the author.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 10:57 AM
Thursday, September 15, 2005
[IWS] JILPT: JAPAN LABOR SITUATION & ANALYSIS 2005/2006 [July 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
Labor Situation in Japan and Analysis : Detailed Exposition 2005/2006 [July 2005]
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/20052006LaborSituation.pdf
[full-text, 57 pages]
[excerpt]
...this 2005/2006 issue provides detailed exposition, and offers recent write-ups by researchers of the Institute dealing mainly with important labor issues. It does not provide an exhaustive account of the labor situation.
The book takes up specific topics and introduces recent trends concerning these as well as the relevant analyses, but does not present any one uniform theme as a whole. Consequently, it has been compiled with the intention that the reader will use it together with the 2004/2005 edition < http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/situation2004.htm >
CONTENTS
1 Considering the Responses to Freeter and Jobless Youth Issues 2
2 The Balance between Work and Child Care 10
3 The Results-based Principle 16
4 Unpaid Overtime Work 18
5 Discretionary Labor System 19
6 Mental Wellness 20
7 New Endeavors at Labor Unions 21
8 Short-term Regular Employees 22
9 Temp-to-hire Placement 24
10 Succession of Labor Contracts 26
11 Resolving Individual Labor and Management Disputes 28
12 Work-Sharing 30
13 Obstacles for Popularizing Internships 31
14 The Japanese Dual System 32
15 Measures for Employing Older People 34
16 Employment for the Disabled 36
17 Management Strategies 38
18 An Overview of the Worker Dispatching System in Japan 39
19 Current Status and Characteristics of Dispatched Workers in Japan 42
20 Human Resource Management at Overseas Japanese Companies 45
21 Salient Features of Labor-Management Relations,
Personnel and Labor Management, and Labor Conditions
in Foreign Companies in Japan 48
Contributing Authors 51
TABLES & FIGURES
1-1 Freeter ratios by gender, age, and academic backgrounds 3
1-2 Unemployment rate by gender, age and academic backgrounds of young people 4
1-3 Reasons for becoming freeters (multiple answers) 5
1-4 What was felt through freeter experiences by freeter types (multiple answers) 6
1-5 Definitions used in Labor Force Survey and where Jobless Youth fall into 7
2-1 Transitions in households by working condition of couples 10
2-2 Working circumstances of mothers with one sibling (just self) 13
2-3 Transitions in maximum day care center numbers and numbers of children going to day care 15
3-1 Individual goals emphasized as part of goal management (multiple answers) 17
4-1 Unpaid overtime time analysis panel and average hours 18
5-1 Employment rate for the discretionary labor system 19
6-1 Comparison of awareness towards stress and job by age 20
8-1 Possibilities for considering a future short-term regular employee system (businesses establishments) 23
9-1 The policy of companies related to utilizing dispatched workers
and the temp-to-hire placements (the number of responded companies; 304) 25
10-1 Image diagram representing corporate reorganization 27
11-1 Shift in the number of consultations 29
11-2 Breakdown of consultations for civil individual labor and management disputes 29
12-1 The transitions between life stages in the diversified employment scheme society 30
13-1 Situation of internship practices in colleges 31
14-1 Basic working methods of the Japanese Dual System 33
15-1 Future work life pattern for elderly 35
16-1 The number of workers with disabilities and percentages of companies
which have not attained statutory employment rate, by size of private companies 37
18-1 Period of dispatch by type of occupation 40
19-1 Ratio of dispatched workers to all employees, and Ratio of businesses
establishments hiring dispatched workers among the main industries 43
20-1 Reasons why Japanese companies advance to foreign countries 46
21-1 Attitudes towards personnel and labor management 49
21-2 Problems related to administration and personnel management 50
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)
Labor Situation in Japan and Analysis : Detailed Exposition 2005/2006 [July 2005]
http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/documents/20052006LaborSituation.pdf
[full-text, 57 pages]
[excerpt]
...this 2005/2006 issue provides detailed exposition, and offers recent write-ups by researchers of the Institute dealing mainly with important labor issues. It does not provide an exhaustive account of the labor situation.
The book takes up specific topics and introduces recent trends concerning these as well as the relevant analyses, but does not present any one uniform theme as a whole. Consequently, it has been compiled with the intention that the reader will use it together with the 2004/2005 edition < http://www.jil.go.jp/english/laborinfo/library/situation2004.htm >
CONTENTS
1 Considering the Responses to Freeter and Jobless Youth Issues 2
2 The Balance between Work and Child Care 10
3 The Results-based Principle 16
4 Unpaid Overtime Work 18
5 Discretionary Labor System 19
6 Mental Wellness 20
7 New Endeavors at Labor Unions 21
8 Short-term Regular Employees 22
9 Temp-to-hire Placement 24
10 Succession of Labor Contracts 26
11 Resolving Individual Labor and Management Disputes 28
12 Work-Sharing 30
13 Obstacles for Popularizing Internships 31
14 The Japanese Dual System 32
15 Measures for Employing Older People 34
16 Employment for the Disabled 36
17 Management Strategies 38
18 An Overview of the Worker Dispatching System in Japan 39
19 Current Status and Characteristics of Dispatched Workers in Japan 42
20 Human Resource Management at Overseas Japanese Companies 45
21 Salient Features of Labor-Management Relations,
Personnel and Labor Management, and Labor Conditions
in Foreign Companies in Japan 48
Contributing Authors 51
TABLES & FIGURES
1-1 Freeter ratios by gender, age, and academic backgrounds 3
1-2 Unemployment rate by gender, age and academic backgrounds of young people 4
1-3 Reasons for becoming freeters (multiple answers) 5
1-4 What was felt through freeter experiences by freeter types (multiple answers) 6
1-5 Definitions used in Labor Force Survey and where Jobless Youth fall into 7
2-1 Transitions in households by working condition of couples 10
2-2 Working circumstances of mothers with one sibling (just self) 13
2-3 Transitions in maximum day care center numbers and numbers of children going to day care 15
3-1 Individual goals emphasized as part of goal management (multiple answers) 17
4-1 Unpaid overtime time analysis panel and average hours 18
5-1 Employment rate for the discretionary labor system 19
6-1 Comparison of awareness towards stress and job by age 20
8-1 Possibilities for considering a future short-term regular employee system (businesses establishments) 23
9-1 The policy of companies related to utilizing dispatched workers
and the temp-to-hire placements (the number of responded companies; 304) 25
10-1 Image diagram representing corporate reorganization 27
11-1 Shift in the number of consultations 29
11-2 Breakdown of consultations for civil individual labor and management disputes 29
12-1 The transitions between life stages in the diversified employment scheme society 30
13-1 Situation of internship practices in colleges 31
14-1 Basic working methods of the Japanese Dual System 33
15-1 Future work life pattern for elderly 35
16-1 The number of workers with disabilities and percentages of companies
which have not attained statutory employment rate, by size of private companies 37
18-1 Period of dispatch by type of occupation 40
19-1 Ratio of dispatched workers to all employees, and Ratio of businesses
establishments hiring dispatched workers among the main industries 43
20-1 Reasons why Japanese companies advance to foreign countries 46
21-1 Attitudes towards personnel and labor management 49
21-2 Problems related to administration and personnel management 50
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 8:14 AM
[IWS] WORLD'S WOMEN 2005: Women, Work & Poverty - Progress of [31 August 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty [31 August 2005]
http://www.unifem.org/resources/item_detail.php?ProductID=48
or
http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_eng.pdf
[full-text, 116 pages]
Press Release [31 August 2005]
UNIFEM Report Calls for Increased Focus on Women's Informal Employment in Efforts to Combat Poverty and Gender Inequality
http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=295
A new report, released by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in anticipation of the 2005 World Summit, argues for closer attention to the role of women, particularly working poor women, in the informal economy, and the impact of this on efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
UNIFEM's report, Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty, is the third publication in a biennial series first introduced in 2000 to track and measure the world's commitments to gender equality. Taking its cue from the Millennium Declaration, adopted by world leaders in 2000, which recognizes the link between poverty and gender inequality, and notes the centrality of gender equality to efforts to combat poverty, hunger and to stimulate sustainable development, Progress 2005 makes the case that unless women's economic security is strengthened, progress towards these goals will be limited.
Within this context, the report looks at employment, especially informal employment, and the potential it has to either perpetuate or reduce poverty and gender inequality. It provides the latest data on the size and composition of the informal economy in different regions and compares official national data on average earnings and poverty risk across different segments of both the informal and formal workforces in several countries.
Informal employment, a widespread and persistent feature of today's global economy, accounts for 50 to 80 per cent of total non-agricultural employment in developing countries, with the percentage higher still if agriculture were included. In the developed world, self-employment, part-time and temporary work comprise about 20 to 30 per cent of total employment. Rather than informal work becoming formalized as economies grow, work is moving from formal to informal, from regulated to unregulated, with workers losing job security along with medical and other benefits, and working in conditions that are frequently unhealthy and unsafe.
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty [31 August 2005]
http://www.unifem.org/resources/item_detail.php?ProductID=48
or
http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_eng.pdf
[full-text, 116 pages]
Press Release [31 August 2005]
UNIFEM Report Calls for Increased Focus on Women's Informal Employment in Efforts to Combat Poverty and Gender Inequality
http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=295
A new report, released by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in anticipation of the 2005 World Summit, argues for closer attention to the role of women, particularly working poor women, in the informal economy, and the impact of this on efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
UNIFEM's report, Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty, is the third publication in a biennial series first introduced in 2000 to track and measure the world's commitments to gender equality. Taking its cue from the Millennium Declaration, adopted by world leaders in 2000, which recognizes the link between poverty and gender inequality, and notes the centrality of gender equality to efforts to combat poverty, hunger and to stimulate sustainable development, Progress 2005 makes the case that unless women's economic security is strengthened, progress towards these goals will be limited.
Within this context, the report looks at employment, especially informal employment, and the potential it has to either perpetuate or reduce poverty and gender inequality. It provides the latest data on the size and composition of the informal economy in different regions and compares official national data on average earnings and poverty risk across different segments of both the informal and formal workforces in several countries.
Informal employment, a widespread and persistent feature of today's global economy, accounts for 50 to 80 per cent of total non-agricultural employment in developing countries, with the percentage higher still if agriculture were included. In the developed world, self-employment, part-time and temporary work comprise about 20 to 30 per cent of total employment. Rather than informal work becoming formalized as economies grow, work is moving from formal to informal, from regulated to unregulated, with workers losing job security along with medical and other benefits, and working in conditions that are frequently unhealthy and unsafe.
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 7:48 AM
[IWS] ILO: New! FOOD AT WORK: Workplace Solutions for Malnutrition, Obesity, and Chronic Diseases [15 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
(The following is to be presented at the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Orlando, Florida 18-22 September)
FOOD AT WORK: Workplace Solutions for Malnutrition, Obesity, and Chronic Diseases
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/download/foodatwork.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
[excerpt]
This book addresses a simple question how do workers eat while at work? This question is not always given much thought. This is strange, as food is the fuel that powers production. One would think that
employers, wanting to maximize productivity, would provide their workforce with nourishing food or, at the very least, convenient access to healthy food.Workplace meal programmes can prevent micronutrient deficiencies and chronic diseases, including obesity. Investments in nutrition are repaid in a reduction of sick days and accidents and an increase in productivity and morale. Indeed, access to healthy food (and protection from unsafe and unhealthy food and eating arrangements) is as essential as protection from workplace chemicals or noise.
In fact, workplace meal programmes are largely a missed opportunity. Too often the workplace meal programme is either an afterthought or not even considered by employers.Work, instead of being accommodating,
is frequently a hindrance to proper nutrition. Canteens, if they exist, routinely offer an unhealthy and unvaried selection. Vending machines are regularly stocked with unhealthy snacks. Local restaurants can be expensive or in short supply. Street foods can be bacteria-laden.Workers sometimes have no time to eat, no place to eat or no money to purchase food. Some workers are unable to consume enough calories to
perform the strenuous work expected of them. Agricultural and construction workers often eat in dangerous and unsanitary conditions. Mobile workers and day labourers are expected to fend for themselves.
Migrant workers, far from home, often find themselves with no access to local markets and no means to store or cook food. Night shiftworkers find they have few meal options after hours. Hundreds of millions of
workers face an undesirable eating arrangement every day. Many go hungry; many get sick, sooner or later. The result is a staggering blow to productivity and health. Poorer nations, in particular, remain in a cycle of
poor nutrition, poor health, low productivity, low wages and no development.
Press Release at-
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/index.htm
[will appear soon at the URL above]
Thursday 15 September 2005
For immediate release
ILO/09/35
Poor workplace nutrition hits workers health and productivity, says new ILO report
GENEVA (ILO News) Poor diet on the job is costing countries around the world up to 20 per cent in lost productivity, either due to malnutrition that plagues some one billion people in developing countries or the excess weight and obesity afflicting an equal number mostly in industrialized economies, says a new study by the International Labour Office (ILO).
Poor meal programs and poor nutrition underlie so many workplace issues: morale, safety, productivity, and the long-term health of the workers and nations. But few workers are happy with their meal arrangements, says Christopher Wanjek, the author of the study, Food at Work: Workplace solutions for malnutrition, obesity and chronic diseases */, which will be formally launched at the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Orlando, Florida, September 19-22.
The ground-breaking study, the first to examine workplace eating habits worldwide, says better nutrition in the workplace can raise national productivity rates, while workplace meal programs can prevent micronutrient deficiencies and chronic diseases, obesity with modest investments that can be repaid in reduction of sick days and accidents.
Other findings include:
The world is facing a food gap of staggering proportions, with one out of six people on the planet undernourished, and an equal number overweight or obese.
Inadequate nourishment can cut productivity by up to 20 per cent.
In 2001, non-communicable (diet-related) diseases contributed to about 46 per cent of the global disease burden and 60 per cent of all deaths worldwide, with cardiovascular disease alone amounting to 30 per cent of deaths. The global burden of diet-related diseases is expected to climb to 57 percent by 2020.
In Southeast Asia, iron deficiency accounts for a US$5 billion loss in productivity.
In India, the cost of lost productivity, illness and death due to malnutrition is US$10 to 28 billion, or 3 to 9 per cent of gross domestic product.
In wealthier nations, obesity accounts for 2 to 7 per cent of total health costs: in the United States the annual economic costs of obesity to business for insurance, paid sick leave and other payments is US$12.7 billion.
In the United States, where over two-thirds of the population is overweight, direct medical costs accounted for approximately US$51.6 billion and lost productivity approximately US$3.9 billion reflected in 39.2 million lost work-days, 239 million restricted-activity days, 89.5 million bed-days and 62.6 million physician visits.
In the developing world, a 1 per cent kilocalorie (kcal) increase results in a 2.27 per cent increase in general labour productivity.
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
(The following is to be presented at the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, Orlando, Florida 18-22 September)
FOOD AT WORK: Workplace Solutions for Malnutrition, Obesity, and Chronic Diseases
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/download/foodatwork.pdf
[full-text, 12 pages]
[excerpt]
This book addresses a simple question how do workers eat while at work? This question is not always given much thought. This is strange, as food is the fuel that powers production. One would think that
employers, wanting to maximize productivity, would provide their workforce with nourishing food or, at the very least, convenient access to healthy food.Workplace meal programmes can prevent micronutrient deficiencies and chronic diseases, including obesity. Investments in nutrition are repaid in a reduction of sick days and accidents and an increase in productivity and morale. Indeed, access to healthy food (and protection from unsafe and unhealthy food and eating arrangements) is as essential as protection from workplace chemicals or noise.
In fact, workplace meal programmes are largely a missed opportunity. Too often the workplace meal programme is either an afterthought or not even considered by employers.Work, instead of being accommodating,
is frequently a hindrance to proper nutrition. Canteens, if they exist, routinely offer an unhealthy and unvaried selection. Vending machines are regularly stocked with unhealthy snacks. Local restaurants can be expensive or in short supply. Street foods can be bacteria-laden.Workers sometimes have no time to eat, no place to eat or no money to purchase food. Some workers are unable to consume enough calories to
perform the strenuous work expected of them. Agricultural and construction workers often eat in dangerous and unsanitary conditions. Mobile workers and day labourers are expected to fend for themselves.
Migrant workers, far from home, often find themselves with no access to local markets and no means to store or cook food. Night shiftworkers find they have few meal options after hours. Hundreds of millions of
workers face an undesirable eating arrangement every day. Many go hungry; many get sick, sooner or later. The result is a staggering blow to productivity and health. Poorer nations, in particular, remain in a cycle of
poor nutrition, poor health, low productivity, low wages and no development.
Press Release at-
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/index.htm
[will appear soon at the URL above]
Thursday 15 September 2005
For immediate release
ILO/09/35
Poor workplace nutrition hits workers health and productivity, says new ILO report
GENEVA (ILO News) Poor diet on the job is costing countries around the world up to 20 per cent in lost productivity, either due to malnutrition that plagues some one billion people in developing countries or the excess weight and obesity afflicting an equal number mostly in industrialized economies, says a new study by the International Labour Office (ILO).
Poor meal programs and poor nutrition underlie so many workplace issues: morale, safety, productivity, and the long-term health of the workers and nations. But few workers are happy with their meal arrangements, says Christopher Wanjek, the author of the study, Food at Work: Workplace solutions for malnutrition, obesity and chronic diseases */, which will be formally launched at the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Orlando, Florida, September 19-22.
The ground-breaking study, the first to examine workplace eating habits worldwide, says better nutrition in the workplace can raise national productivity rates, while workplace meal programs can prevent micronutrient deficiencies and chronic diseases, obesity with modest investments that can be repaid in reduction of sick days and accidents.
Other findings include:
The world is facing a food gap of staggering proportions, with one out of six people on the planet undernourished, and an equal number overweight or obese.
Inadequate nourishment can cut productivity by up to 20 per cent.
In 2001, non-communicable (diet-related) diseases contributed to about 46 per cent of the global disease burden and 60 per cent of all deaths worldwide, with cardiovascular disease alone amounting to 30 per cent of deaths. The global burden of diet-related diseases is expected to climb to 57 percent by 2020.
In Southeast Asia, iron deficiency accounts for a US$5 billion loss in productivity.
In India, the cost of lost productivity, illness and death due to malnutrition is US$10 to 28 billion, or 3 to 9 per cent of gross domestic product.
In wealthier nations, obesity accounts for 2 to 7 per cent of total health costs: in the United States the annual economic costs of obesity to business for insurance, paid sick leave and other payments is US$12.7 billion.
In the United States, where over two-thirds of the population is overweight, direct medical costs accounted for approximately US$51.6 billion and lost productivity approximately US$3.9 billion reflected in 39.2 million lost work-days, 239 million restricted-activity days, 89.5 million bed-days and 62.6 million physician visits.
In the developing world, a 1 per cent kilocalorie (kcal) increase results in a 2.27 per cent increase in general labour productivity.
AND MORE....
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 7:23 AM
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
[IWS] ILO: New Publication on LABOUR STANDARDS "RULES OF THE GAME" [30 August 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Please Note: This publication is not yet available via the Web. However it can be requested via e-mail. See note below.
ILO issues new publication on international labour standards
Tuesday 30 August 2005 (ILO/05/33)
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/33.htm
GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) has issued a new publication that provides a comprehensive overview of labour standards on issues ranging from forced to child labour, freedom of association and collective bargaining, equality at work and other key workplace concerns.
"Rules of the game: a brief introduction to International Labour Standards" was prepared by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department and is written for a non-specialist audience and is designed to raise global awareness of the standards. It discusses the importance of ILO Conventions and Recommendations, and how they are applied and supervised.
Adopted by representatives of governments, workers and employers, the ILO's international labour standards establish the international legal framework for promoting social justice in today's global economy.
By the end of June 2005, the ILO had adopted 185 Conventions and 195 Recommendations covering a broad range of subjects, including freedom of association and collective bargaining, forced labour, child labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, employment promotion and vocational training, social security, conditions of work, labour administration and labour inspection, safety and health at work, maternity protection, and the protection of migrants and other categories of workers.
Rules of the game is available in English, French and Spanish. An Arabic version is under preparation.
For more information on international labour standards, please check the ILO website at www.ilo.org/normes.
Copies of the publication can be obtained from the ILO's International Labour Standards Department, tel: +4122/799-8890, email: infonorm@ilo.org.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Please Note: This publication is not yet available via the Web. However it can be requested via e-mail. See note below.
ILO issues new publication on international labour standards
Tuesday 30 August 2005 (ILO/05/33)
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/33.htm
GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office (ILO) has issued a new publication that provides a comprehensive overview of labour standards on issues ranging from forced to child labour, freedom of association and collective bargaining, equality at work and other key workplace concerns.
"Rules of the game: a brief introduction to International Labour Standards" was prepared by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department and is written for a non-specialist audience and is designed to raise global awareness of the standards. It discusses the importance of ILO Conventions and Recommendations, and how they are applied and supervised.
Adopted by representatives of governments, workers and employers, the ILO's international labour standards establish the international legal framework for promoting social justice in today's global economy.
By the end of June 2005, the ILO had adopted 185 Conventions and 195 Recommendations covering a broad range of subjects, including freedom of association and collective bargaining, forced labour, child labour, equality of opportunity and treatment, employment promotion and vocational training, social security, conditions of work, labour administration and labour inspection, safety and health at work, maternity protection, and the protection of migrants and other categories of workers.
Rules of the game is available in English, French and Spanish. An Arabic version is under preparation.
For more information on international labour standards, please check the ILO website at www.ilo.org/normes.
Copies of the publication can be obtained from the ILO's International Labour Standards Department, tel: +4122/799-8890, email: infonorm@ilo.org.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 7:25 AM
[IWS] Towers Perrin: New Role of Pension Trustees in a Global Company [13 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Towers Perrin
New Role of Pension Trustees in a Global Company [13 September 2005]
http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Article_Reprints/Pension_Trustees/Groves.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
[excerpt]
The pressures on trustees are due in part to the turbulence in financial markets, but trustees are also being called upon to know more about the employer's business so they can assess properly its ability to fund
the plan. New laws through the Pensions Regulator in the UK, for example, are recognizing this requirement.
In this section of the Report, we focus on the relationship of defined benefit trustees in the UK with a US headquartered company. We have chosen this relationship because US corporate executives have, in
recent years, come under perhaps the most rigorous regulatory scrutiny regarding their financial statements and they have transferred some of this burden to their overseas subsidiaries. Additionally, UK trustees have
been subject to increased regulatory direction. We explore why decision-making regarding a defined benefit plan is now harder for UK trustees in the current legislative environment and discuss various ways
forward for them when dealing with corporate HQ . We conclude with a few remarks about what these issues may mean for the worldwide pension industry in the years to come, and we also draw some observations.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
Towers Perrin
New Role of Pension Trustees in a Global Company [13 September 2005]
http://www.towersperrin.com/hrservices/webcache/towers/United_States/publications/Article_Reprints/Pension_Trustees/Groves.pdf
[full-text, 5 pages]
[excerpt]
The pressures on trustees are due in part to the turbulence in financial markets, but trustees are also being called upon to know more about the employer's business so they can assess properly its ability to fund
the plan. New laws through the Pensions Regulator in the UK, for example, are recognizing this requirement.
In this section of the Report, we focus on the relationship of defined benefit trustees in the UK with a US headquartered company. We have chosen this relationship because US corporate executives have, in
recent years, come under perhaps the most rigorous regulatory scrutiny regarding their financial statements and they have transferred some of this burden to their overseas subsidiaries. Additionally, UK trustees have
been subject to increased regulatory direction. We explore why decision-making regarding a defined benefit plan is now harder for UK trustees in the current legislative environment and discuss various ways
forward for them when dealing with corporate HQ . We conclude with a few remarks about what these issues may mean for the worldwide pension industry in the years to come, and we also draw some observations.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 6:17 AM
[IWS] ILO: DECENT WORK in ASIA 2001-2004 & ASIAN GOAL (DG's Report) [for OCTOBER 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Report of the Director-General for
Fourteenth Asian Regional Meeting
Busan, Republic of Korea, October 2005 (Postponed)
Decent work in Asia Reporting on results 2001-2004, Volume I
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep1.pdf
[full-text, 154 pages]
and
Making Decent Work and Asian Goal, Volume II
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep2.pdf
[full-text, 88 pages]
Volume I
[excerpt]
...what we learn from this report should serve to enhance results-based management in the future.
Recognizing these constraints, the report attempts to review the key results achieved as a consequence of ILO activities since 2001, in terms of the
following types of questions:
how have the Office and the constituents implemented the conclusions
of the Thirteenth Asian Regional Meeting?
what has been the difference or change as a consequence of ILO action?
how was the impact or outcome judged a success or failure?
how did the result affect different groups in the population?
what was the role of the Office in relation to the roles of the constituents,
other organizations and donors?
how was tripartite social dialogue promoted/instrumental in achieving
results?
how have regular and extra-budgetary resources been mobilized to
finance activities?
how have capacity and resource constraints been addressed?
did the result reflect or demonstrate an integrated and coherent approach:
what was the entry point and have additional components of
decent work been sequentially introduced?
have ILO know-how and show-how shaped public or private policies
and have the policies been implemented?
have there been efforts to leverage experiences from local to national to
regional initiatives?
what were the lessons learned and the messages disseminated?
what are the outstanding challenges and constraints and what are the
next steps for consolidating decent work at the local and national levels
and moving to the subregional and regional levels?
Volume II
[excerpt]
Recent economic growth in Asia has been by far the most rapid in the
world. Yet Asia faces a number of employment challenges: rising unemployment;
supporting the working poor trapped in poverty in the informal economy
so that they can build a better life; tackling the strong gender imbalances
in employment and remuneration; and opening up opportunities for and
realizing the full potential of Asias youthful population.
The jobs crisis gravely threatens the credibility of democracy; it places a
strain on the family; and it undermines social stability and human security.
Across the region, the importance of employment in peoples lives is well
recognized and reflected in policy statements, programmes and projects. Yet
despite some successes, closing the jobs gap and eliminating poverty remain a
formidable challenge.
The goal is not just more jobs, but better jobs. People do what they must
to survive, but they aspire to far more. Survival strategies cannot be the basis
of inclusive and sustainable development.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Report of the Director-General for
Fourteenth Asian Regional Meeting
Busan, Republic of Korea, October 2005 (Postponed)
Decent work in Asia Reporting on results 2001-2004, Volume I
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep1.pdf
[full-text, 154 pages]
and
Making Decent Work and Asian Goal, Volume II
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/rgmeet/14asrm/dgrep2.pdf
[full-text, 88 pages]
Volume I
[excerpt]
...what we learn from this report should serve to enhance results-based management in the future.
Recognizing these constraints, the report attempts to review the key results achieved as a consequence of ILO activities since 2001, in terms of the
following types of questions:
how have the Office and the constituents implemented the conclusions
of the Thirteenth Asian Regional Meeting?
what has been the difference or change as a consequence of ILO action?
how was the impact or outcome judged a success or failure?
how did the result affect different groups in the population?
what was the role of the Office in relation to the roles of the constituents,
other organizations and donors?
how was tripartite social dialogue promoted/instrumental in achieving
results?
how have regular and extra-budgetary resources been mobilized to
finance activities?
how have capacity and resource constraints been addressed?
did the result reflect or demonstrate an integrated and coherent approach:
what was the entry point and have additional components of
decent work been sequentially introduced?
have ILO know-how and show-how shaped public or private policies
and have the policies been implemented?
have there been efforts to leverage experiences from local to national to
regional initiatives?
what were the lessons learned and the messages disseminated?
what are the outstanding challenges and constraints and what are the
next steps for consolidating decent work at the local and national levels
and moving to the subregional and regional levels?
Volume II
[excerpt]
Recent economic growth in Asia has been by far the most rapid in the
world. Yet Asia faces a number of employment challenges: rising unemployment;
supporting the working poor trapped in poverty in the informal economy
so that they can build a better life; tackling the strong gender imbalances
in employment and remuneration; and opening up opportunities for and
realizing the full potential of Asias youthful population.
The jobs crisis gravely threatens the credibility of democracy; it places a
strain on the family; and it undermines social stability and human security.
Across the region, the importance of employment in peoples lives is well
recognized and reflected in policy statements, programmes and projects. Yet
despite some successes, closing the jobs gap and eliminating poverty remain a
formidable challenge.
The goal is not just more jobs, but better jobs. People do what they must
to survive, but they aspire to far more. Survival strategies cannot be the basis
of inclusive and sustainable development.
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[IWS] CANADA: Weekly Work Report, 12 September 2005
IWS Documented News Service
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Cornell University
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(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto)
Weekly Work Report for the Week of September 12, 2005
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
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FORD CANADA AND CAW SET THE PATTERN WITH THEIR TENTATIVE AGREEMENT: The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Ford Canada announced on September 12 that they have reached a tentative agreement, subject to ratification votes by CAW members on September 17 and 18. The 3-year agreement, described by CAW President Buzz Hargrove as ""not the richest settlement we've ever negotiated as a union", is most notable for its job security provisions. It includes a commitment from Ford to continue to operate the St. Thomas assembly plant and the Essex engine plant in Windsor for the 3-year duration of the agreement, as well as to invest $200 million to update the design and engineering of the cars produced in St. Thomas. However, according to the CAW press release, the closure of a castings plant in Windsor and restructuring at other facilities will result in a loss of 1,100 hourly-paid positions in Canada over the next 3 years. Restructuring benefits to workers will increase from the current $60,000 to $70,000, to encourage senior people to retire.
The agreement also includes changes in benefits provisions: fixed rates for payment for prescription drug dispensing fees, semi-private hospital coverage, and long-term care coverage, and the prescription drug policy will allow for generic drugs.
The CAW has not announced whether GM or Daimler Chrysler will be their next bargaining partner, but the terms of the Ford agreement will set the standard in the traditional pattern bargaining of the Big 3.
LINKS:
CAW press release at < http://www.caw.ca/news/newsnow/news.asp?artID=905>
Archive of documents for Big 3 Auto talks at the CAW website at < http://www.caw.ca/whatwedo/bargaining/big3automakers/auto05/index.asp >
Ford, CAW agree on added investment, job cuts at Bloomberg.com at < http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a.ExLnbS4X3E&refer=canada >
"Contract talks: CAW picks Ford for first negotiations" in the Detroit Free Press (Sept. 9) at < http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/caw9e_20050909.htm>
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HYDRO ONE DISPUTE GOES TO ARBITRATION FOR SETTLEMENT: The dispute between Hydro One and the Society of Energy Professionals has reached its final stage with the parties' acceptance of mediator William Kaplan's Sept. 12 recommendation to send all outstanding bargaining items to arbitration. The Globe and Mail reports that Kevin Whitaker, Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, has been appointed as arbitrator. The 14-week dispute at Hydro One has centred on two main issues: a management proposal to increase the base workweek to 39 hours (from 35 or 37.5 hours) without increased compensation, and establishment of a two-tier wage and benefit schedule in which employees hired on or after April 1, 2005 would receive 10% lower wages and lower pension and benefit provisions. These same new employees would also be excluded from a provision prohibiting involuntary layoffs during the 3-year term of the agreement.
Employees represented by the Society are scientists, accountants, IT specialists, engineers, and electricity system planners and supervisors. Hydro One has taken the position that they are already highly paid; the Society has countered with a Fact Sheet on Members' Salaries, which argues that the 328 Society members who earned more than $100,000 in 2004 were largely pushed past that threshold by overtime payments "that reflect the severe understaffing of Hydro One operations." The Society argues that their members have received lower salary schedule increases than Hydro One workers represented by the Power Workers Union, and further, calculates that the average annual compound pay increase for Hydro One Senior Executives since 1999 has been 32.5%, compared to 2.6% for Society members.
LINKS:
"Hydro One agrees to arbitration" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 13) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050913.whydro0913/BNStory/National/>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050913.whydro0913/BNStory/National/
Hydro One Strike website, hosted by the Society of Energy Professionals at < http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/ > http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/ , including Fact Sheet on Members Salaries at < http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/facts/salaries.html > http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/facts/salaries.html
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PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS UNDERWAY IN FEDERAL LABOUR STANDARDS REVIEW: The Federal Labour Standards Review Commission, led by Professor Harry W. Arthurs, is on the road across Canada to hear public input. The public hearings began in Whitehorse on September 8, with sessions in Ottawa on Sept. 14 and 15, in Toronto on Sept. 20 and 21, and continuing across the country until October 27 in St. John's Newfoundland.
The Review is charged with examining the changing nature of work, new forms of employment relationships, measures to improve work-life balance, demographic changes in the workplace, and the need for effective enforcement of Part III of the Canada Labour Code. The topics and researchers in its commissioned research program were announced at the end of August, and reports will be published on the Review website. Formal submissions received to date have been posted on the website, including those from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Labour Congress.
LINKS:
Federal Labour Standards Review Commission website at < http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/index.asp > http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/index.asp
Formal brief from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (24 pages, HTML) at < http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/sub_fb_09.asp > http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/sub_fb_09.asp
Formal brief from the Canadian Labour Congress (52 pages, PDF) at < http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/doc/sub_fb_03.pdf > http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/doc/sub_fb_03.pdf
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COMPENSATION FORECASTS FOR 2006: Mercer Human Resource Consulting has released its 2006 Canadian Compensation Planning Survey. According to the survey employers are anticipating an average salary increase of 3.4% for 2006. The survey also reveals that nearly half of the employers are increasing pay differentiation based on performance.
Regional differences in average increases are small. No sector is forecast to have increases less than 3.0%; the highest increase of 4.6 % is in the oil and gas sector. The results are based on data from 384 organizations representing approximately 1.6 million unionized and non-unionized employees in Canada.
A second survey, Morneau Sobeco's 2006 Compensation Trends and Projections Survey, was released on September 7. It predicts average salaries to increase by 3.2% overall, with unionized hourly employees forecast to have 2.7% salary increases and executives forecast to receive 3.3%. As with Mercer, the oil and gas sector led the way with an forecast 4.6% average increase in salary budgets. Morneau Sobeco also found that the top three benefit issues for 2006 are health care costs (indicated by 58 % of employers), disability management (35 %), and benefits plan design (30 %). The Morneau Sobeco survey is based on data from over 300 participating organizations with more than 800,000 employees.
LINKS:
Summary of the Compensation Planning Survey at the Mercer website at < http://www.mercerhr.ca/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1192270 >
Summary of 2006 Compensation Trends and Projections Survey at the Morneau Sobeco website at < http://www.morneausobeco.com/_private/getpdffile.asp?docId=753>
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MEN AND WOMEN USE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS DIFFERENTLY: A new report by Warren Shepell Research Group analyses the employee assistance providers' own proprietary data to examine trends in EAP use by men and women in the years 2002 to 2004. Among the findings: women accounted for 63.45% of all EAP contacts; 19.89% of women and 25.28% of men accessed employee counseling for marital/relationship problems; there was no significant gender difference in access concerning work-related issues such as work performance, work stress, and career issues. The report also differentiates patterns for women below age 40 and women older than 40, finding that women over 40 were more likely to report high levels of stress than women under 40, and than men over 40.
LINKS:
Women in the workplace: an EAP's perspective (11 pages, PDF) linked from < http://www.warrenshepell.com/research/latest.asp>
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RETIREMENT WAVE COMING IN CANADIAN STEEL INDUSTRY : The Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress (CSTEC) announced a comprehensive study of human resource issues in the broader Canadian steel industry on September 7th . One of the key findings of the study is that 55 % of the workforce is over 45 years of age, leading to a recommendation that the steel industry work with governments to develop and implement a Workforce Development Plan to address the training and recruitment issues that will result from the "wave of retirements which will soon engulf the industry."
LINKS:
Press release at the USWA website at < http://www.uswa.ca/program/content/2677.php>
Backgrounder at the USWA website at < http://www.uswa.ca/program/content/2678.php>
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A BUSINESS CASE FOR APPRENTICESHIP: The Ontario Chamber of Commerce released a report on September 13th outlining the growing shortage of skilled-trades workers in the province. Taking Action On Skilled Trades: Establishing the Business Case for Investing in Apprenticeship, notes that Ontario will lose about 100,000 skilled-trades workers in the manufacturing sector over the next 15 years, 52 % of the current skilled-trades in that sector, and that the investment in training new apprentices is insufficient. Using the manufacturing sector as an example, the report estimates that for every dollar invested in apprenticeship training, there is a return of $4.30.
LINKS:
Taking Action On Skilled Trades: Establishing the Business Case for Investing in Apprenticeship (56 pages, PDF) at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce website at < http://www.occ.on.ca/2publications/reports/docs/SkilledTradesReport_092005.pdf >
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FAILURE OF WELFARE REFORMS IN ONTARIO: Economists Don Drummond and Gillian Manning of the TD Bank Financial Group have published a report titled From Welfare to Work in Ontario: Still the Road Less Travelled. The report, a contribution to the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults, looks at the economic disincentives when individuals attempt to move from welfare into the workforce. The report is critical of the changes made to the welfare system by the Ontario Conservative government from 1995 to 2000 and evaluates the reforms of the current Liberal government.
LINKS:
Executive Summary of the report (9 pages, HTML) at the TD Bank website at < http://www.td.com/economics/special/welfare05.jsp>
From Welfare to Work in Ontario: Still the Road Less Travelled (54 pages, PDF) at < http://www.td.com/economics/special/welfare05.pdf>
"Working age adults fall through safety net" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 9) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050909/WELFARE09/TPNational/?query=working-age+adults >
"New directions for welfare system" (Editorial) in the Toronto Star (Sept. 10) at < http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1126302611870&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes >
Task Force on Income Security website at < http://www.torontoalliance.ca/tcsa_initiatives/income_security/ >
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MANUFACTURING AND COMPENSATION IN CHINA: A report written in December 2004 and released in September by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics discusses the issues of quality and completeness of employment and compensation data for the manufacturing sector in China. It also assesses probable biases in the data, for example, arguing that the number of employees and their wages are often underreported by employers to avoid taxes and to minimize payments to social insurance and employee housing funds. Finally, the report discusses factors which contribute, and factors which hamper, China's competitiveness in manufacturing.
LINKS:
Manufacturing employment and compensation in China, by Judith Banister under contract to the U.S. Department of Labor (90 pages, PDF) at < http://www.bls.gov/fls/chinareport.pdf>
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Book of the Week : Essentials of Negotiation
Authors: Harvard Business School Press and the Society for Human Resource Management
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 1591395747
This book is part of a series of books titled Business Literacy for HR Professionals. It explains the basics of how to prepare for and conduct negotiations and offers specific strategies for negotiating effectively with job seekers, employees, peers, consultants, vendors, and other groups with whom human resource professionals typically work.
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
(The following is courtesy of the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto)
Weekly Work Report for the Week of September 12, 2005
These highlights of the week's HR/IR news are prepared by the Librarians at the Centre for Industrial Relations for our subscribers, alumni, faculty and students, and are intended for their individual use only. Please visit the CIR website for terms of use and information about organizational subscriptions. This message is composed in MS Outlook Express and contains hyperlinks that require an HTML-enabled email program.
The WWR is protected by Canadian copyright law and should not be reproduced or forwarded without permission. For inquiries or comments, please contact the Editor, elizabeth.perry@utoronto.ca.
----------
FORD CANADA AND CAW SET THE PATTERN WITH THEIR TENTATIVE AGREEMENT: The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Ford Canada announced on September 12 that they have reached a tentative agreement, subject to ratification votes by CAW members on September 17 and 18. The 3-year agreement, described by CAW President Buzz Hargrove as ""not the richest settlement we've ever negotiated as a union", is most notable for its job security provisions. It includes a commitment from Ford to continue to operate the St. Thomas assembly plant and the Essex engine plant in Windsor for the 3-year duration of the agreement, as well as to invest $200 million to update the design and engineering of the cars produced in St. Thomas. However, according to the CAW press release, the closure of a castings plant in Windsor and restructuring at other facilities will result in a loss of 1,100 hourly-paid positions in Canada over the next 3 years. Restructuring benefits to workers will increase from the current $60,000 to $70,000, to encourage senior people to retire.
The agreement also includes changes in benefits provisions: fixed rates for payment for prescription drug dispensing fees, semi-private hospital coverage, and long-term care coverage, and the prescription drug policy will allow for generic drugs.
The CAW has not announced whether GM or Daimler Chrysler will be their next bargaining partner, but the terms of the Ford agreement will set the standard in the traditional pattern bargaining of the Big 3.
LINKS:
CAW press release at < http://www.caw.ca/news/newsnow/news.asp?artID=905>
Archive of documents for Big 3 Auto talks at the CAW website at < http://www.caw.ca/whatwedo/bargaining/big3automakers/auto05/index.asp >
Ford, CAW agree on added investment, job cuts at Bloomberg.com at < http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a.ExLnbS4X3E&refer=canada >
"Contract talks: CAW picks Ford for first negotiations" in the Detroit Free Press (Sept. 9) at < http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/caw9e_20050909.htm>
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HYDRO ONE DISPUTE GOES TO ARBITRATION FOR SETTLEMENT: The dispute between Hydro One and the Society of Energy Professionals has reached its final stage with the parties' acceptance of mediator William Kaplan's Sept. 12 recommendation to send all outstanding bargaining items to arbitration. The Globe and Mail reports that Kevin Whitaker, Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, has been appointed as arbitrator. The 14-week dispute at Hydro One has centred on two main issues: a management proposal to increase the base workweek to 39 hours (from 35 or 37.5 hours) without increased compensation, and establishment of a two-tier wage and benefit schedule in which employees hired on or after April 1, 2005 would receive 10% lower wages and lower pension and benefit provisions. These same new employees would also be excluded from a provision prohibiting involuntary layoffs during the 3-year term of the agreement.
Employees represented by the Society are scientists, accountants, IT specialists, engineers, and electricity system planners and supervisors. Hydro One has taken the position that they are already highly paid; the Society has countered with a Fact Sheet on Members' Salaries, which argues that the 328 Society members who earned more than $100,000 in 2004 were largely pushed past that threshold by overtime payments "that reflect the severe understaffing of Hydro One operations." The Society argues that their members have received lower salary schedule increases than Hydro One workers represented by the Power Workers Union, and further, calculates that the average annual compound pay increase for Hydro One Senior Executives since 1999 has been 32.5%, compared to 2.6% for Society members.
LINKS:
"Hydro One agrees to arbitration" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 13) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050913.whydro0913/BNStory/National/>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050913.whydro0913/BNStory/National/
Hydro One Strike website, hosted by the Society of Energy Professionals at < http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/ > http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/ , including Fact Sheet on Members Salaries at < http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/facts/salaries.html > http://www.fairnessforh1professionals.ca/facts/salaries.html
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PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS UNDERWAY IN FEDERAL LABOUR STANDARDS REVIEW: The Federal Labour Standards Review Commission, led by Professor Harry W. Arthurs, is on the road across Canada to hear public input. The public hearings began in Whitehorse on September 8, with sessions in Ottawa on Sept. 14 and 15, in Toronto on Sept. 20 and 21, and continuing across the country until October 27 in St. John's Newfoundland.
The Review is charged with examining the changing nature of work, new forms of employment relationships, measures to improve work-life balance, demographic changes in the workplace, and the need for effective enforcement of Part III of the Canada Labour Code. The topics and researchers in its commissioned research program were announced at the end of August, and reports will be published on the Review website. Formal submissions received to date have been posted on the website, including those from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Labour Congress.
LINKS:
Federal Labour Standards Review Commission website at < http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/index.asp > http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/index.asp
Formal brief from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (24 pages, HTML) at < http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/sub_fb_09.asp > http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/en/sub_fb_09.asp
Formal brief from the Canadian Labour Congress (52 pages, PDF) at < http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/doc/sub_fb_03.pdf > http://www.fls-ntf.gc.ca/doc/sub_fb_03.pdf
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COMPENSATION FORECASTS FOR 2006: Mercer Human Resource Consulting has released its 2006 Canadian Compensation Planning Survey. According to the survey employers are anticipating an average salary increase of 3.4% for 2006. The survey also reveals that nearly half of the employers are increasing pay differentiation based on performance.
Regional differences in average increases are small. No sector is forecast to have increases less than 3.0%; the highest increase of 4.6 % is in the oil and gas sector. The results are based on data from 384 organizations representing approximately 1.6 million unionized and non-unionized employees in Canada.
A second survey, Morneau Sobeco's 2006 Compensation Trends and Projections Survey, was released on September 7. It predicts average salaries to increase by 3.2% overall, with unionized hourly employees forecast to have 2.7% salary increases and executives forecast to receive 3.3%. As with Mercer, the oil and gas sector led the way with an forecast 4.6% average increase in salary budgets. Morneau Sobeco also found that the top three benefit issues for 2006 are health care costs (indicated by 58 % of employers), disability management (35 %), and benefits plan design (30 %). The Morneau Sobeco survey is based on data from over 300 participating organizations with more than 800,000 employees.
LINKS:
Summary of the Compensation Planning Survey at the Mercer website at < http://www.mercerhr.ca/pressrelease/details.jhtml/dynamic/idContent/1192270 >
Summary of 2006 Compensation Trends and Projections Survey at the Morneau Sobeco website at < http://www.morneausobeco.com/_private/getpdffile.asp?docId=753>
----------
MEN AND WOMEN USE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS DIFFERENTLY: A new report by Warren Shepell Research Group analyses the employee assistance providers' own proprietary data to examine trends in EAP use by men and women in the years 2002 to 2004. Among the findings: women accounted for 63.45% of all EAP contacts; 19.89% of women and 25.28% of men accessed employee counseling for marital/relationship problems; there was no significant gender difference in access concerning work-related issues such as work performance, work stress, and career issues. The report also differentiates patterns for women below age 40 and women older than 40, finding that women over 40 were more likely to report high levels of stress than women under 40, and than men over 40.
LINKS:
Women in the workplace: an EAP's perspective (11 pages, PDF) linked from < http://www.warrenshepell.com/research/latest.asp>
----------
RETIREMENT WAVE COMING IN CANADIAN STEEL INDUSTRY : The Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress (CSTEC) announced a comprehensive study of human resource issues in the broader Canadian steel industry on September 7th . One of the key findings of the study is that 55 % of the workforce is over 45 years of age, leading to a recommendation that the steel industry work with governments to develop and implement a Workforce Development Plan to address the training and recruitment issues that will result from the "wave of retirements which will soon engulf the industry."
LINKS:
Press release at the USWA website at < http://www.uswa.ca/program/content/2677.php>
Backgrounder at the USWA website at < http://www.uswa.ca/program/content/2678.php>
----------
A BUSINESS CASE FOR APPRENTICESHIP: The Ontario Chamber of Commerce released a report on September 13th outlining the growing shortage of skilled-trades workers in the province. Taking Action On Skilled Trades: Establishing the Business Case for Investing in Apprenticeship, notes that Ontario will lose about 100,000 skilled-trades workers in the manufacturing sector over the next 15 years, 52 % of the current skilled-trades in that sector, and that the investment in training new apprentices is insufficient. Using the manufacturing sector as an example, the report estimates that for every dollar invested in apprenticeship training, there is a return of $4.30.
LINKS:
Taking Action On Skilled Trades: Establishing the Business Case for Investing in Apprenticeship (56 pages, PDF) at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce website at < http://www.occ.on.ca/2publications/reports/docs/SkilledTradesReport_092005.pdf >
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FAILURE OF WELFARE REFORMS IN ONTARIO: Economists Don Drummond and Gillian Manning of the TD Bank Financial Group have published a report titled From Welfare to Work in Ontario: Still the Road Less Travelled. The report, a contribution to the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults, looks at the economic disincentives when individuals attempt to move from welfare into the workforce. The report is critical of the changes made to the welfare system by the Ontario Conservative government from 1995 to 2000 and evaluates the reforms of the current Liberal government.
LINKS:
Executive Summary of the report (9 pages, HTML) at the TD Bank website at < http://www.td.com/economics/special/welfare05.jsp>
From Welfare to Work in Ontario: Still the Road Less Travelled (54 pages, PDF) at < http://www.td.com/economics/special/welfare05.pdf>
"Working age adults fall through safety net" in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 9) at < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050909/WELFARE09/TPNational/?query=working-age+adults >
"New directions for welfare system" (Editorial) in the Toronto Star (Sept. 10) at < http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1126302611870&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes >
Task Force on Income Security website at < http://www.torontoalliance.ca/tcsa_initiatives/income_security/ >
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MANUFACTURING AND COMPENSATION IN CHINA: A report written in December 2004 and released in September by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics discusses the issues of quality and completeness of employment and compensation data for the manufacturing sector in China. It also assesses probable biases in the data, for example, arguing that the number of employees and their wages are often underreported by employers to avoid taxes and to minimize payments to social insurance and employee housing funds. Finally, the report discusses factors which contribute, and factors which hamper, China's competitiveness in manufacturing.
LINKS:
Manufacturing employment and compensation in China, by Judith Banister under contract to the U.S. Department of Labor (90 pages, PDF) at < http://www.bls.gov/fls/chinareport.pdf>
----------
Book of the Week : Essentials of Negotiation
Authors: Harvard Business School Press and the Society for Human Resource Management
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 1591395747
This book is part of a series of books titled Business Literacy for HR Professionals. It explains the basics of how to prepare for and conduct negotiations and offers specific strategies for negotiating effectively with job seekers, employees, peers, consultants, vendors, and other groups with whom human resource professionals typically work.
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[IWS] OECD: EDUCATION at a GLANCE 2005 [13 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
OECD
EDUCATION AT A GLANCE 2005 (13 September 2005)
Press Release
http://www.oecd.org/document/13/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35341645_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
Overview
http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,2340,en_2649_34515_35289570_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
Executive Summary
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/25/35345692.pdf
[full-text, 64 pages]
13/09/2005 - People are facing growing pressures to go on developing skills and knowledge over their working life-time as job mobility increases and job tasks become more complex, and governments in many countries need to do more to foster education and training at all stages of people's lives, according to the latest edition of the OECD's annual Education at a Glance.
Education is a gateway to employment, and in almost all OECD countries, educational attainment levels continue to rise. On average, three quarters of people born in the 1970s have gone all the way through secondary school, now the essential baseline qualification for successful entry into the labour market, compared with only half of those born in the 1940s.
But education and training are also crucial for maintaining and improving people's employability. Despite politicians' promises, adult training opportunities still seem to be skewed more towards the better-skilled and those who already have jobs than towards people looking for work.
What is more, OECD studies show that the earnings gap between the better-educated and those with lower qualifications is growing rather than shrinking. In all OECD countries, people without upper secondary education face a significantly higher, and growing, risk of unemployment. On average, 15% of 20-to-24-year-olds in OECD countries without upper secondary qualifications are unemployed, double the rate of those who have completed secondary school.
The statistics in Education at a Glance provide governments with a basis for policy debate and decisions. In recent years, some countries have shown spectacular improvements in schooling performance. In Korea, for example, a striking 97%, of people born in the 1970s have completed upper secondary education, putting Korea in top place for this age group ahead of Norway with 95% and Japan and the Slovak Republic with 94%. By comparison, only 32% of Koreans born in the 1940s have upper secondary qualifications, leaving Korea trailing 24th out of the 30 OECD countries in this age group. Portugal, starting from a much lower base, has raised the proportion of its citizens with upper secondary qualifications from only 10% of those born in the 1940s to 37% of those born in the 1970s.
More people in OECD countries are also completing university-level education, although the pattern is very uneven with growth in overall numbers of graduates mainly due to increases in a few countries with flexible degree structures.
Women now account for 57% of university-level graduates, although mainly in the humanities, health and welfare. The share of women graduates remains at 30% or below in mathematics, computer science, engineering, manufacturing and construction, and gender differences with regard to future studying intentions are often already clearly visible in the performance and attitudes of 15-year-olds.
Rising tertiary education levels do not appear to have had a negative effect on the labour-market value of these qualifications. The returns to both individuals and society from investments in university education are positive and often large, both in financial terms as well as in terms of broader economic and social outcomes, such as increased labour productivity and better mental and physical health. The earnings premium for people with tertiary education, as opposed to those with only secondary education, grew further between 1997 and 2003 in all but four of the 22 OECD countries with available data, on average by one percentage point each year. (This earnings premium ranges from around 25% in Denmark and New Zealand to between 50% and 119% in the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.)
Initial education alone is not enough to meet the rising and changing demand for skills, however. In countries like Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States, more than 40% of people in the labour force now take part in non-formal job-related education and training each year. By contrast, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain provide such training to fewer than 10% of employees.
What is more, while post-school education and training opportunities are generally as accessible to women as to men, they remain less frequent for those who need them most, such as the unemployed or people in low-skilled jobs. Participation rates for those who have not completed upper secondary education are less than half of those with upper secondary education and only around a quarter of those with tertiary education.
In all OECD countries, too, employees in upper-tier service industries are more likely to get training than those working in other sectors. More generally, adult education and training are more common in large firms, the public sector and in sectors such as business services, banking or finance; usually for full-time or established workers in a firm; more prevalent for management and senior posts than for non-executive or unskilled jobs; more frequent for young and mid-career workers than for older workers; and likely to increase in line with an individual's initial level of qualifications. More worrying still, are the sizeable proportions of young people with low levels of education who are neither in work or education. In France, Italy, Mexico, the Slovak republic and Turkey, more than 10% of 15-19 year olds are in this situation.
OECD countries now spend an average of USD 7,343 per student per year between primary and tertiary education, but this masks a broad range of expenditure across countries. Switzerland and the U.S. spend the most, with average annual outlays per student of more than USD 11,000. At the other end of the scale, Mexico and the Slovak Republic spend around USD 2,000 per student per year. The drivers of expenditure per student vary across countries: among the five countries with the highest expenditure per student, Switzerland and the United States are two of the countries with the highest teachers' salaries at secondary level of education whereas Austria, Denmark and Norway are among the countries with the lowest student to teaching staff ratio.
Spending is not necessarily a guarantee of higher quality in terms of education, though: Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands and New Zealand all have moderate expenditure on education per student at the primary and lower secondary levels but are among the countries where 15-year-olds perform strongest in key subject areas.
In many countries, too, the ways in which the costs of education are shared between public and private stakeholders are changing, with tertiary institutions in many countries now relying more heavily on private sources of funding such as fees than they did in the mid-1990s. Nevertheless, the public and private shares in the funding of education are often still not in line with the public and private benefits. Most notably in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria and Finland, private sources contribute a much larger share of the costs of early childhood education and care than for tertiary education, where the private benefits dominate.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
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New York, NY 10016 *
*
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Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
OECD
EDUCATION AT A GLANCE 2005 (13 September 2005)
Press Release
http://www.oecd.org/document/13/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35341645_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
Overview
http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,2340,en_2649_34515_35289570_1_1_1_1,00.html
or
Executive Summary
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/25/35345692.pdf
[full-text, 64 pages]
13/09/2005 - People are facing growing pressures to go on developing skills and knowledge over their working life-time as job mobility increases and job tasks become more complex, and governments in many countries need to do more to foster education and training at all stages of people's lives, according to the latest edition of the OECD's annual Education at a Glance.
Education is a gateway to employment, and in almost all OECD countries, educational attainment levels continue to rise. On average, three quarters of people born in the 1970s have gone all the way through secondary school, now the essential baseline qualification for successful entry into the labour market, compared with only half of those born in the 1940s.
But education and training are also crucial for maintaining and improving people's employability. Despite politicians' promises, adult training opportunities still seem to be skewed more towards the better-skilled and those who already have jobs than towards people looking for work.
What is more, OECD studies show that the earnings gap between the better-educated and those with lower qualifications is growing rather than shrinking. In all OECD countries, people without upper secondary education face a significantly higher, and growing, risk of unemployment. On average, 15% of 20-to-24-year-olds in OECD countries without upper secondary qualifications are unemployed, double the rate of those who have completed secondary school.
The statistics in Education at a Glance provide governments with a basis for policy debate and decisions. In recent years, some countries have shown spectacular improvements in schooling performance. In Korea, for example, a striking 97%, of people born in the 1970s have completed upper secondary education, putting Korea in top place for this age group ahead of Norway with 95% and Japan and the Slovak Republic with 94%. By comparison, only 32% of Koreans born in the 1940s have upper secondary qualifications, leaving Korea trailing 24th out of the 30 OECD countries in this age group. Portugal, starting from a much lower base, has raised the proportion of its citizens with upper secondary qualifications from only 10% of those born in the 1940s to 37% of those born in the 1970s.
More people in OECD countries are also completing university-level education, although the pattern is very uneven with growth in overall numbers of graduates mainly due to increases in a few countries with flexible degree structures.
Women now account for 57% of university-level graduates, although mainly in the humanities, health and welfare. The share of women graduates remains at 30% or below in mathematics, computer science, engineering, manufacturing and construction, and gender differences with regard to future studying intentions are often already clearly visible in the performance and attitudes of 15-year-olds.
Rising tertiary education levels do not appear to have had a negative effect on the labour-market value of these qualifications. The returns to both individuals and society from investments in university education are positive and often large, both in financial terms as well as in terms of broader economic and social outcomes, such as increased labour productivity and better mental and physical health. The earnings premium for people with tertiary education, as opposed to those with only secondary education, grew further between 1997 and 2003 in all but four of the 22 OECD countries with available data, on average by one percentage point each year. (This earnings premium ranges from around 25% in Denmark and New Zealand to between 50% and 119% in the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.)
Initial education alone is not enough to meet the rising and changing demand for skills, however. In countries like Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States, more than 40% of people in the labour force now take part in non-formal job-related education and training each year. By contrast, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain provide such training to fewer than 10% of employees.
What is more, while post-school education and training opportunities are generally as accessible to women as to men, they remain less frequent for those who need them most, such as the unemployed or people in low-skilled jobs. Participation rates for those who have not completed upper secondary education are less than half of those with upper secondary education and only around a quarter of those with tertiary education.
In all OECD countries, too, employees in upper-tier service industries are more likely to get training than those working in other sectors. More generally, adult education and training are more common in large firms, the public sector and in sectors such as business services, banking or finance; usually for full-time or established workers in a firm; more prevalent for management and senior posts than for non-executive or unskilled jobs; more frequent for young and mid-career workers than for older workers; and likely to increase in line with an individual's initial level of qualifications. More worrying still, are the sizeable proportions of young people with low levels of education who are neither in work or education. In France, Italy, Mexico, the Slovak republic and Turkey, more than 10% of 15-19 year olds are in this situation.
OECD countries now spend an average of USD 7,343 per student per year between primary and tertiary education, but this masks a broad range of expenditure across countries. Switzerland and the U.S. spend the most, with average annual outlays per student of more than USD 11,000. At the other end of the scale, Mexico and the Slovak Republic spend around USD 2,000 per student per year. The drivers of expenditure per student vary across countries: among the five countries with the highest expenditure per student, Switzerland and the United States are two of the countries with the highest teachers' salaries at secondary level of education whereas Austria, Denmark and Norway are among the countries with the lowest student to teaching staff ratio.
Spending is not necessarily a guarantee of higher quality in terms of education, though: Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands and New Zealand all have moderate expenditure on education per student at the primary and lower secondary levels but are among the countries where 15-year-olds perform strongest in key subject areas.
In many countries, too, the ways in which the costs of education are shared between public and private stakeholders are changing, with tertiary institutions in many countries now relying more heavily on private sources of funding such as fees than they did in the mid-1990s. Nevertheless, the public and private shares in the funding of education are often still not in line with the public and private benefits. Most notably in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria and Finland, private sources contribute a much larger share of the costs of early childhood education and care than for tertiary education, where the private benefits dominate.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
****************************************
# posted by SBasefsky : 1:24 PM
[IWS] ILO: ASIA & PACIFIC 2005 Labour & Social TRENDS [12 September 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Office
Economic and Social Analysis Unit
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
Labour and Social Trends in Asia and the Pacific 2005 [12 September 2005]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/download/14tharm/rep_trends.pdf
[full-text, 78 pages]
Press Release 12 September 2005
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/public/releases/yr2005/pr05_24.htm
BANGKOK (ILO News) -- Despite encouraging progress in cutting poverty and improving the working lives of people in Asia under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), unemployment reached a new record high in the region while jobs growth remained disappointing, says a new report from the International Labour Office (ILO) issued here today.
Whats more the report, Labour and Social Trends in Asia and the Pacific 2005, says new data show that some three quarters of the worlds poor or close to 2 billion people subsisting on less than the equivalent of US$ 2 a daylive in Asia .
The new study was issued on the eve of the United Nations World Summit in New York to be held on 14-16 September. The summit is the biggest gathering ever to be mounted by the UN, and will discuss efforts to reduce poverty, among other issues. A host of key Asian leaders are expected among some 160 heads of state who will be attending.
The new ILO study provides a stark analysis of a growing employment gap in the Asia region, says the creation of new jobs has failed to keep pace with the regions impressive economic growth. Whats more, the ILO report says that between 2003 and 2004 employment in Asia and the Pacific increased by a disappointing 1.6 per cent, or by 25 million jobs, to a total of 1.588 billion jobs, compared to the strong economic growth rate of over 7 per cent. During the same period, the total unemployed edged up by half a million reaching 78 million, the fifth consecutive year-on-year increase since 1999.
In addition, underemployment remains widespread. It manifests itself in many forms: millions are working involuntary less than full time or are taking jobs below their qualifications or skills. And many public enterprises are overstaffed.
Young people aged 15 to 24 are bearing the brunt of this employment deficit, the report says, accounting for a disproportionate 49.1 per cent of the regions jobless although they make up only 20.8 per cent of the labour force. Generally, the ILO said youth unemployment is two to three times that of adults. Moreover, there is a cruel irony in the co-existence of youth unemployment with child labour: millions young people are jobless or underutilized while many jobs are filled by children who should be attending schools.
The ILO estimates that halving youth unemployment would increase GDP, by up to 2.5 per cent in East Asia , by up to 6.7 per cent in South Asia and up to 7.4 per cent in South-East Asia
While the regions countries have made huge strides in reducing poverty and the prospects are good for meeting the first MDG of halving extreme poverty (those living on less than US$1 a day), the so-called working poverty remains a serious problem, according to the ILO report. The working poor are those who often work very hard and long hours but do not earn enough to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Some 355 million in the region receive inadequate incomes from their labour, which leaves them and their families below the US$1 a day poverty line. If the poverty line is raised to US$2 a day, Asia has about one billion working poor (more than three-quarters of the global total).
It isnt just the lack of jobs available that should concern us, the quality of jobs and of opportunities is just as important, said Mr. Shinichi Hasegawa, Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Jobs which do not allow people to earn enough to keep themselves and their families, or work that is unsafe our unhealthy, is no solution to poverty. This report shows that the problems spotlighted by the MDGs are all interlinked poverty cant be tackled unless issues as diverse as child labour, gender equality, youth employability are addressed.
Questions also hang over the prospects of achieving the other MDGs related to work and workplace issues.
Progress towards achieving universal primary education by 2015 (MDG 2) has slowed. The ILO said 48 million primary school age children in the region are not enrolled in school out of a global total of 103 million. The majority of these children are working. The report says there are clear links between continuing child labour and poverty.
Many countries, especially those in South Asia , are also unlikely to meet the third MDG on gender equality and the empowerment of women (MDG3). Fewer girls attend primary and secondary schools than boys. Young women suffer more unemployment than young men -- a particularly worrying trend in some countries where female labour force participation is still low. Women in these countries have limited employment opportunities and, if employed, generally earn less than their male counterparts.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
*
Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
Fax: (607) 255-9641 *
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu *
****************************************
_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
International Labour Office
Economic and Social Analysis Unit
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
Labour and Social Trends in Asia and the Pacific 2005 [12 September 2005]
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/download/14tharm/rep_trends.pdf
[full-text, 78 pages]
Press Release 12 September 2005
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/public/releases/yr2005/pr05_24.htm
BANGKOK (ILO News) -- Despite encouraging progress in cutting poverty and improving the working lives of people in Asia under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), unemployment reached a new record high in the region while jobs growth remained disappointing, says a new report from the International Labour Office (ILO) issued here today.
Whats more the report, Labour and Social Trends in Asia and the Pacific 2005, says new data show that some three quarters of the worlds poor or close to 2 billion people subsisting on less than the equivalent of US$ 2 a daylive in Asia .
The new study was issued on the eve of the United Nations World Summit in New York to be held on 14-16 September. The summit is the biggest gathering ever to be mounted by the UN, and will discuss efforts to reduce poverty, among other issues. A host of key Asian leaders are expected among some 160 heads of state who will be attending.
The new ILO study provides a stark analysis of a growing employment gap in the Asia region, says the creation of new jobs has failed to keep pace with the regions impressive economic growth. Whats more, the ILO report says that between 2003 and 2004 employment in Asia and the Pacific increased by a disappointing 1.6 per cent, or by 25 million jobs, to a total of 1.588 billion jobs, compared to the strong economic growth rate of over 7 per cent. During the same period, the total unemployed edged up by half a million reaching 78 million, the fifth consecutive year-on-year increase since 1999.
In addition, underemployment remains widespread. It manifests itself in many forms: millions are working involuntary less than full time or are taking jobs below their qualifications or skills. And many public enterprises are overstaffed.
Young people aged 15 to 24 are bearing the brunt of this employment deficit, the report says, accounting for a disproportionate 49.1 per cent of the regions jobless although they make up only 20.8 per cent of the labour force. Generally, the ILO said youth unemployment is two to three times that of adults. Moreover, there is a cruel irony in the co-existence of youth unemployment with child labour: millions young people are jobless or underutilized while many jobs are filled by children who should be attending schools.
The ILO estimates that halving youth unemployment would increase GDP, by up to 2.5 per cent in East Asia , by up to 6.7 per cent in South Asia and up to 7.4 per cent in South-East Asia
While the regions countries have made huge strides in reducing poverty and the prospects are good for meeting the first MDG of halving extreme poverty (those living on less than US$1 a day), the so-called working poverty remains a serious problem, according to the ILO report. The working poor are those who often work very hard and long hours but do not earn enough to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Some 355 million in the region receive inadequate incomes from their labour, which leaves them and their families below the US$1 a day poverty line. If the poverty line is raised to US$2 a day, Asia has about one billion working poor (more than three-quarters of the global total).
It isnt just the lack of jobs available that should concern us, the quality of jobs and of opportunities is just as important, said Mr. Shinichi Hasegawa, Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Jobs which do not allow people to earn enough to keep themselves and their families, or work that is unsafe our unhealthy, is no solution to poverty. This report shows that the problems spotlighted by the MDGs are all interlinked poverty cant be tackled unless issues as diverse as child labour, gender equality, youth employability are addressed.
Questions also hang over the prospects of achieving the other MDGs related to work and workplace issues.
Progress towards achieving universal primary education by 2015 (MDG 2) has slowed. The ILO said 48 million primary school age children in the region are not enrolled in school out of a global total of 103 million. The majority of these children are working. The report says there are clear links between continuing child labour and poverty.
Many countries, especially those in South Asia , are also unlikely to meet the third MDG on gender equality and the empowerment of women (MDG3). Fewer girls attend primary and secondary schools than boys. Young women suffer more unemployment than young men -- a particularly worrying trend in some countries where female labour force participation is still low. Women in these countries have limited employment opportunities and, if employed, generally earn less than their male counterparts.
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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# posted by SBasefsky : 6:38 AM
