Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] employers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another study of employers ' use of temporary workers using US survey data ( Magnum/Mayall/Nelson , 1985 ) obtained results very similar to our own with respect to fixed-term contract workers . |
| 2 | Arguably only if the Library Association failed to take disciplinary action against its members for not putting professional loyalty and practice above employers ' decisions would the Code be discredited — as a paper tiger . |
| 3 | All chairmen were social class I , the majority of employers ' representatives were social class II and over 80 per cent of employees ' representatives fell within social classes II and III ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | The Holland Report looked explicitly at the issue of employers ' dissatisfaction with young workers and presented its information in such a way as to support the idea of education 's failure in this area . |
| 5 | In addition , the structure of collective bargaining is an important influence upon the role and locus of decision-making within employers ' organisations themselves . |
| 6 | The study builds on earlier work on employers ' associations and training policy in the same four industries . |
| 7 | In addition to the factors already discussed , the main stimulus to employers ' organisation in a number of countries appears to have been less that of a counter to growing union power , or an attempt to achieve market or labour force regulation , and more a response to what was perceived as a threat to common employer interests arising from increasing state intervention . |
| 8 | Secondly , it will comment on working-age women 's access to membership of employers ' pension schemes and the extent to which it appears that their risk of poverty in retirement may have lessened , both by increased access in their own right and through improved provision for widows . |
| 9 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 10 | In September the government announced a ceiling of 5.5 per cent for wage increases in 1991 ; according to the employers ' organization , the Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales ( Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations — CEOE ) , wages rose by 9 per cent in 1990 — well above the level of inflation . |
| 11 | In France Sellier ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the ( late ) appearance of employers ' organisations oriented towards labour rather than commercial interests , in 1919 and again in 1936 , corresponded to two periods of social crisis and state intervention towards resolving it . |
| 12 | Although dual employer structuring may be common in some industries , nevertheless our main concern is more specifically with the origins and development of employers ' associations themselves , which will now be delineated . |
| 13 | At an even earlier date in Australia , the development of employers ' associations had been facilitated by government intervention and by the increasing complexity of the legislative , labour-management framework ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 14 | The role of political pressures such as these as a major influence upon the development of employers ' associations has been emphasised by Adams ( 1981 ) , who puts forward a theory to account for the broad differences between Western Europe and the USA both in the extent of organisation among employers themselves and in their behaviour towards trade unions . |
| 15 | However , although it is possible to identify a number of common facilitating factors in the development of employers ' associations in various countries there are also some important differences both between and within countries , particularly in the extent to which these bodies engage in direct negotiating activities on behalf of their members . |
| 16 | Objective evidence of employers ' bias in the recruitment was found by Jolly et al. |
| 17 | It is therefore necessary to consider on a cross-national basis for industrialised market ( or mixed ) economies the genesis and evolution of employers ' associations , external to the firm or enterprise , which have typified collective bargaining arrangements with unions in most Western European countries . |
| 18 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 19 | In this study for the Employment Department , Peck and Stone provide some very interesting evidence on employers ' attempts to embrace the new industrial relations . |
| 20 | To attract more businesses , the maximum fees for company registration were cut from £50,000 to £5,000 and a 10 p.c. rebate on employers ' national insurance contributions was introduced . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries . |
| 22 | Similarly in the pre-1914 period in Germany the authority of employers ' organisations over their members helped the attainment of an earlier recognition of collective bargaining ( outside manufacturing industry ) , 6 in contrast to its much later acceptance in France . |
| 23 | As Table 4.10 shows , there were interesting differences between the SERC and non-SERC students in the pattern of employers ' business activities . |
| 24 | Since association ( or multi-employer ) bargaining became a major part of the industrial relations systems of these countries the specific collective bargaining role of employers ' associations now requires more detailed analysis . |
| 25 | A more analytical investigation of a small number of Western European countries and the role of employers ' organisations in collective bargaining is Sisson ( 1984 ) . |
| 26 | the role of employers ' organisations as regulators of wages and working conditions ; |
| 27 | Women 's limited access to employers ' pension benefits are directly related to the traditional domestic division of labour which assigns the ‘ breadwinner ’ role to men , principally husbands , and the major responsibility for the unpaid work of the home ( especially child care ) to women . |
| 28 | The genesis of employers ' associations , however , was not only as a response to trade union growth and militancy because to some degree it was , in addition , a reaction to economic pressures . |
| 29 | In Japan the influential Federation of Employers ' Associations ( Nikkeiren ) draws up wage-bargaining guidelines which are often worked out by bodies where the major undertakings that will apply them are represented . |
| 30 | The Wages Act 1986 and the Employment Act 1989 radically altered the financing of redundancy payments by abolishing the government 's subsidy of employers ' redundancy costs.i These changes , which herald another shift in the purpose of the legislation , bring into question the role of redundancy payments and their relationship with the social security system , but above all they put a higher premium on dismissing the cheapest workers . |