Example sentences of "a [adj] industrial relations " in BNC.

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1 I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent .
2 A national industrial relations system which had its formative stages during the past 20 years is more likely to accord a greater role to the state , for instance , than those developed in earlier periods when the government 's role as employer and regulator was less pervasive .
3 A national industrial relations system formulated with labour organisations which are an adjunct to a successful nationalist movement , which has secured independence , may be expected to show some characteristics different from [ one ] in which national independence antedated the union movements or in which the union movements played a minor role in the nationalist movement .
4 As we have indicated , there can be problems in attempting to extract a single institution or rule from a national industrial relations system in order to compare it with what happens elsewhere since
5 This reflected the high level of local organisation of the early post-war years : industrial action sprang from the shopfloor , and the preponderance of unofficial or ‘ wildcat ’ strikes was a major industrial relations issue .
6 In the case of many of the former British territories in Africa they had something of a common industrial relations heritage built around an institutional framework in the British mould which was fostered by colonial administrations .
7 The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections .
8 Time was spent undoing Labour measures on price and income controls but the main effort was put into a new Industrial Relations Act , a new Housing Finance Act , into tax cutting and the reduction of public expenditure on industry and alleged welfare extravagances .
9 A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute .
10 Towards a New Industrial Relations ?
11 It therefore states that many British trade unionists now suggest that we need a new industrial relations institution where a wide agenda of issues can be discussed between managers and employee representatives that work company level .
12 In the words of a senior industrial relations manager ,
13 They also ask : are native enterprises being presented with a powerful ‘ demonstration effect ’ where , given the opportunity , they would prefer to be rid of an old industrial relations system in preference for the one used by their newly-arrived neighbours ?
14 In Dunlop 's conception of an interdependent industrial relations system three principal actors , namely workers , managers — as well as their representative organisations — together with certain state agencies , all interact to establish a network of rules governing their relationship in the workplace , the rules being the output of the system .
15 Speaking at the opening of new offices for the Industrial Tribunals and Fair Employment Tribunals in Belfast , Economy Minister Robert Atkins said the province now enjoyed an excellent industrial relations record .
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