Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] employers ' " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 A more analytical investigation of a small number of Western European countries and the role of employers ' organisations in collective bargaining is Sisson ( 1984 ) .
7 the role of employers ' organisations as regulators of wages and working conditions ;
8 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 .
9 As Table 4.10 shows , there were interesting differences between the SERC and non-SERC students in the pattern of employers ' business activities .
10 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 .
11 This , too , encouraged the growth of employers ' associations because non-members would then join in order to have a voice in determining bargaining outcomes which affected them .
12 The data from WIRS did not always show that establishments where trade unions were recognised or where union density was high were also less likely than others to use temporary workers [ see Table 3.9–10 ] , but there were good reasons to explain this — not least the absence of a question in the survey on employers ' use of casual workers .
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