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the National Labor Relations Act, nonetheless involves workplace profanity or offensive speech that potentially violates … considers recent appellate court and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions on this important issue, highlighting the … public policies underlying both the National Labor Relations Act and equal employment opportunity laws, as well as employer …
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National Labor Relations Act guarantees employees the right to engage in concerted activities for mutual aid or protection. The … 60 million U.S. workers, and those requiring class waiver in arbitration keep labor and employment claims hidden, and …
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Originally, anchoring labour rights to the existence of a personal relationship of subordination was functional to prevent the greater bargaining strength of the employed being disproportionately reflected in the terms and conditions regulating the provision of labour. This does not seem anymore...
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The notion of flexicurity was introduced in the late 1990s. It promotes the idea of compensation of deregulation of labour markets (= flexibilization) by advantages in employment and social security, in particularly for flexibly employed (other than permanent full-time, called also atypically...
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In fragile states, social protection programmes are often a kaleidoscope of projects financed and implemented by a variety of donors, government agencies and NGOs. Such an environment does not foster a strong sense of ownership by beneficiaries, which weakens the likelihood of sustainability in...
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In fragile states, social protection programmes are often a kaleidoscope of projects financed and implemented by a variety of donors, government agencies and NGOs. Such an environment does not foster a strong sense of ownership by beneficiaries, which weakens the likelihood of sustainability in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381937
This paper argues that employers should adopt practices that provide employees with opportunities to exercise voice. Time and time again, we see corporate scandals that could have been avoided if employees were encouraged to speak up when they saw problems in the workplace. Recent scandals...
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This paper explores empirically the economic validity of the relatively limited approach to the regulation of employment protection pursued in the UK over the last three decades and within the European Union more recently. It does so by comparing the UK's manufacturing labour productivity...
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Under existing American labor, employment, and tax laws, in any one work relationship, a worker is either an “employee … been challenged by “gig economy,” or “online platform” companies that provide personal labor services (e.g., ride … paper with Alan Krueger entitled “A Proposal for Modernizing Labor Laws for Twenty-First-Century Work: The ‘Independent …
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