Trade Unions and Family-Friendly Policies in Britain
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Trade Unions and Family-Friendly Policies in Britain
This paper uses linked data on over 1,500 workplaces and 20,000 individuals from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey to analyze the relationship between labor unions and the availability of six employer-provided family-friendly policies. Unions appear to help with workfamily issues by increasing the availability of parental leave and job sharing options through a combination of...
متن کاملTrade Unions and Unpaid Overtime in Britain
In this paper we use British Household Panel Survey data to examine the relationship between unionization and unpaid overtime in Britain. The findings indicate that in the for-profit, non-caring sector of the economy, union covered employees supply fewer unpaid overtime hours than noncovered ones due to union protection and the weakening of economic incentives caused by union bargaining. On the...
متن کاملTrade Unions and Industrial Injury in Great Britain
Anecdotal evidence suggests that trade unions succeed in ameliorating workplace health and safety, but no attempt has been made to link specific workplace injury rates with a respective union presence. Relying on WERS98, this paper establishes a cross-sectional link between trade unions and occupational injury rates, revealing that unions gravitate to accident-prone workplaces and react by redu...
متن کاملFamily-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Awareness
We use linked data on over 20,000 individuals and almost 1,500 workplaces from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyze the perceived and actual availability of six major familyfriendly work practices amongst British employees. We find a low base rate of actual availability, a lower rate of perceived availability, and evidence that accurate awareness of availability is further li...
متن کاملFamily-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility
Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplacelevel availability for five family-friendly work practices – parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home – and a substantially lower rate of individual-level perceived accessibility....
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ILR Review
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0019-7939,2162-271X
DOI: 10.1177/001979390405700203