The paper examines a recent example of work and employment restructuring in the Royal Navy. This involved the creation … of a new employment branch (the Warfare Branch) out of two former branches: the Operations Branch and the Weapon …

is sceptical about whether the surveys point to meaningful innovations in enterprise level employment systems in Ireland …. A less pessimistic perspective suggests that the high level of experimentation occurring on new employment practices …

work arrangements; the rationale for temp workers entering into temporary employment; the nature and extent of the … relationship between TWAs and user firms; the relationship between employment regulations and an organisation's labour use patterns …

Purpose – To examine the experience of agency employment for workers and employers' use of agency workers in Britain to … recent representative surveys of employment in Britain to examine the current nature and experience of agency work: the … Labour Force Survey ; the Workplace Employment Relations Survey and the Working in Britain, 2000 Survey . Findings – The …

to review the context of construction employment. It summarises the challenges inherent in construction work which have …/methodology/approach – The operational context of the sector is reviewed briefly, before the efficacy of the industry's employment practices are …. There is a need for the sector to modernise and formalise its working and employment practices if performance and …

employment practices within the UK construction and civil engineering sector. The survey was conducted in 2002 and covered firms …