Example sentences of "[art] [adj] employers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Employers ' Confederation , for example , had no strong views on the matter , the NFOAPA vaguely opposed compulsory retirement , and only the Fabian Society had given it much thought : they proposed an interesting ‘ double-decker ’ scheme , involving payment of 10s 0d per week as in the existing system , and ‘ adequate ’ pensions on retirement . |
| 2 | The memorandum ( endorsed by the National Joint Advisory Council representing the British Employers ' Confederation , the TUC , and the nationalized industries ) identified as the essential problem the provision of a place in society for the ever-growing proportion of elderly persons and suggested that : ‘ Age sixty-five for men and sixty for women ought no longer to be regarded as ‘ normal retiring age ’ ' . |
| 3 | Yet since the late 1950s extensive progress on the negotiation of general clauses on working conditions has taken place between the central employers ' organisations and large trade union confederations , along with government participation , on an economy-wide basis . |
| 4 | Rather , not only does Sweden have the widest coverage of collective bargaining for manual and white-collar employees , along with well-developed workplace organisations , but most importantly member firms of the centralised employers ' body support trade union membership and encourage employees to join and remain in the union . |
| 5 | In Sweden the negotiation of economy-wide agreements on wages by the union and employer confederations has reinforced the prominent position of the Swedish Employers ' Confederation ( SAF ) . |
| 6 | Certainly , on the union side , the central trade union body ( the LO ) attained much greater power and authority than either the TUC in Britain or the AFL-CIO in the United States and the Swedish Employers ' Confederation ( SAF ) had tightly controlled powers over its affiliates since its inception . |
| 7 | In the building industry in France , Sweden , Britain and West Germany the fact that the respective employers ' organisations are essentially federations is also tied up with the structure of collective bargaining , since in most cases the local or regional organisation was — or is — a bargaining agent ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
| 9 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
| 10 | On March 15 the main employers ' and trade-union federations agreed a general wage rise of 4 per cent for around 400,000 private-sector workers . |
| 11 | In Sweden , for instance , a strong employers ' confederation enforced managerial prerogatives from the early years of the present century , prerogatives which were also supported by the legal framework until the law was changed in 1977 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 12 | A confederated employers ' organisation was set up in 1919 at the behest of the state which wanted a partner for the application of the new law on collective wage agreements . |
| 13 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 14 | In particular , the 1902 general strike there accelerated the creation of a central employers ' organisation to provide financial assistance to strike-bound firms ( Forsebäck , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | With the advent of such legislation after World War I the creation of a central employers ' association fulfilled the need for an authoritative spokesman to represent employer interests before the legislature . |
| 16 | POOR standards of schooling are a frequent employers ' complaint . |
| 17 | In particular , the London owners saw their position as different from those of other ports and remained indifferent to the idea of a nationwide employers ' organization devoted to stemming the rising tide of trade unionism among seamen , and without London support any such project was unlikely to succeed . |