Purpose – This paper aims to explain the rules and regulations for using independent contractors in a library setting. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the personal expertise of the author who has been a professor of human resources management as well as a library consultant to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore attitudes to employment law and the consequent impact of legislation on Irish employment relations practice. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a comparative approach using two separate pieces of employment law governing race...

Considers issues relating to trade union recognition following a recent Trades Union Congress (TUC) report. Looks at the the UK′s past experience in this field, featuring the work of bodies such as the Commission on Industrial Relations (CIR) and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration...

Discusses how since 1970, the colonial government in Hong Kong has exercised its wide legal powers over trade union organization and activities in a benevolent manner. Whether the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government will continue this policy is uncertain: the new government may...

Self‐regulation of health and safety within a legal framework was recommended by the Robens Committee Report (1972). Every organisation will be affected by various factors, both internal and external, which will determine how self‐regulation of health and safety will evolve, and these...

Collective labour relations within the EEC varies considerably, and it is intended here to explain the underlying attitudes to bargaining between unions and employers in the Netherlands. Forthcoming changes in collective labour law are explored, in particular, in relation to health and safety,...

Having reviewed Nigeria's recent attempts at incomes policy, it is concluded that future policies need to be kept to a one‐year maximum in order to generate sufficient public support to guarantee success. Enforcement of incomes policies should also be guided strictly by the law, and guidelines...

An attempt is made to assess changes that have occurred in the New Zealand industrial relations system over the last four years. The relationship between traditional modes of operational practice based on government intervention through the medium of statute law, and the perceptions of change...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance a conceptual analytical framework to help explain employment regulation as a dynamic process shaped by institutions and actors. The paper builds on and advances regulatory space theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses the literature...