A long-standing earnings management hypothesis suggests that deflationary earnings management in a unionized setting should lead to concessions from the union during contract negotiations. However, little evidence exists to support this hypothesis. I assess the strategy of missing mean consensus...

This paper analyzes the National Labor Relations Board's recent Purple Communications decision. There, the Obama Board found Purple Communication's restrictions on employee use of its email system violated the National Labor Relations Act as employees were authorized to use the employer email...

Recruitment into the public service in Kenya is done by the by public service commission. This is a constitutional office established under article 233 of the constitution of Kenya 2010. Its mandate includes recruiting for the public service, promoting public officers, handling appeals on...

The construction industry plays a strategic role in developing countries like Zimbabwe. This research seeks to empirically determine the main factors affecting construction labour productivity in Zimbabwe. Questionnaires comprising of structured and unstructured questions were used to for data...

Under traditional agency law doctrine, employees are agents of their employers and owe an agent's concomitant fiduciary duties. Employers, in turn, are merely principals and have no corresponding fiduciary duties. A new wave of thinking has unsettled this approach by concluding that only...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce una rassegna degli sviluppi recenti delle relazioni industriali, sia sul piano delle regole, sia sul piano dei risultati della contrattazione. Si assiste a una crescente frammentazione nel panorama della contrattazione nazionale, con la diffusione di accordi...

This article examines the impact of the pandemic on ride-hailing drivers and their mitigation strategies during lockdown in Africa. Ride-hailing has emerged as one of the latest paid-work opportunities for the continent’s many unemployed. Yet, ride-hailing companies like Uber and Bolt...

This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...

The article presents an analysis of the provisions of Directives 93/104/EC and 2003/88 and of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which supports the conclusion that the characteristic features of working time must be cumulatively met so that a time frame falls within this...