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When is a promise a strategic liability?

Terry, Nicholas; White, Phil - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 3, pp. 272-281

legislation and business practice have prompted the scrutiny of the underpinnings for such a management tradition. Identifies …

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Casual workers: still marginal after all these years?

Leighton, Patricia; Painter, Richard W. - In: Employee Relations 23 (2001) 1, pp. 75-93

The recent House of Lords decision in Carmichael v. National Power plc decided that a casual/zero‐hours worker was self‐employed and thus excluded from most of the basic employment statutory rights. The aims of this article are to note the incidence and characteristics of the casual...

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New employee representation

Barry, Michael; May, Robyn - In: Employee Relations 26 (2004) 2, pp. 203-223

the legislation has been to promote the registration of a plethora of new unions. However, the new unions formed since the …

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Age discrimination: legislation and human capital accumulation

Urwin, Peter - In: Employee Relations 28 (2006) 1, pp. 87-97

legislation in October 2006, the paper proposes considering the issue of mandatory retirement within this human capital framework … is of importance, not their age per se . Practical implications – Recent announcements regarding legislation on mandatory …

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Attitudes to employment law and the consequent impact of legislation on employment relations practice

Curran, Deirdre; Quinn, Mary - In: Employee Relations 34 (2012) 5, pp. 464-480

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore attitudes to employment law and the consequent impact of legislation …‐structured interviews with key informants are the main data source, augmented in the case of the information and consultation legislation by … focus groups in individual workplaces. Findings – The empirical evidence presented suggests that legislation is not the …

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Criminal Convictions: A Bar to Equality of Employment

Earnshaw, Jill - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 3, pp. 23-26

on grounds of race or sex is highlighted. The provisions of the unfair dismissal legislation as they bear on ex …‐offenders and the extent to which this legislation and the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 are safeguarding the recruitment …

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Repeal of the National Dock Labour Scheme: Britain′s Ports in an Era of Industrial Relations Change

Finney, Nicholas - In: Employee Relations 12 (1990) 4, pp. 10-16

Based on a talk first given to the Manchester Industrial Relations Society, the process of change is charted – especially in recent times – in Britain′s ports. In particular, a detailed analysis is provided of the moves by the port employers to repeal the National Dock Labour Scheme, and...

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Union Autonomy, a Terminal Case in the UK? A Comparison with the Approach in Other European Countries and the USA

Fosh, Patricia; Morris, Huw; Martin, Roderick; Smith, Paul - In: Employee Relations 15 (1993) 3, pp. 3-21

Since 1979, the Conservative government in the UK has introduced wide‐ranging and detailed regulations for the conduct of union internal affairs; a number of other Western industrialized countries have not done so (or have not done so to the same extent) but have continued their tradition of...

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Union Autonomy in Context: An International Comparison

Fosh, Patricia; Morris, Huw; Martin, Roderick; Smith, Paul - In: Employee Relations 15 (1993) 4, pp. 3-26

This is the second of two linked articles on the question of union autonomy; the first appeared in the previous issue of this journal. It considers state control and approach to union autonomy in the wider context of state controls on unions′ bargaining activities including industrial action....

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From check‐off to direct debit? Trade union subscriptions in UK universities

Baimbridge, Mark; Simpson, Claire - In: Employee Relations 19 (1997) 3, pp. 265-277

Examines trade union subscriptions in relation to the 1993 Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act focusing on the Association of University Teachers, where the relationship is examined between subscription payments and hypothesized factors relating to staff, union and institutional...

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