Whose Common Law for Labor Relations?

Whose Law Is It Anyway?

Labor Management Relations

Labor-management relations are the interacting relations between labor and management. The purpose of our study is to find out the worker wage satisfaction, worker satisfaction with supervisory behavior and worker satisfaction with welfare items. This cross sectional study was conducted from October 2010 to January 2011. A group of 200 employees was take part in this study through a predesigned...

Labor Law and Its Reform

Selected Labor & Employment Law Updates

Court holds that warehouse employees who were not guaranteed fixed hours or schedules and could bid for regular jobs as they became available were not "casual employees" as defined by the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and the employer thus was required to contribute to fund on their behalf Even if the employer treated the employees as casual employees, such practice could not contraven...

Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations∗

We show that differences in the quality of labor relations across countries can help to explain cross-country differences in ownership concentration. Controlling for minority shareholder protection, countries in which labor relations are hostile tend to have more concentrated ownership than countries in which labor relations are cooperative. Union strength, labor regulation, and the political o...