COMMERCE 4SA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Trade Union, Co-Determination, Experience Curve Effects
16 Nov 2017
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Labour shortages: political refugees wide range of skills, guest workers legally allowed to work in manual/menial jobs, prepared to do specific jobs, economic refugees not with needed skills. Consideration in employment policies: race/minorities discrimination, gender, deg(cid:396)ee of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s li(cid:271)e(cid:396)atio(cid:374) (cid:396)a(cid:374)ge, employees must consider sexist attitudes of host country. International labour activity/relations: key issue: degree to which organized labour can limit the choices of ib, labour concerns, counter-bargaining power with threat to move jobs off-shore, keep high-skill at home and ship low-skill work to foreign plants. Importing employment practices and contractual agreements from home-country: codetermination, labour union representation onto the managing board of directors. Strategy for international labour: try to establish international labour organizations, labour legislatures to restrict multinationals, use united nations to regulate multinationals. International jobs: at the fi(cid:396)(cid:373)"s head(cid:395)ua(cid:396)te(cid:396)s, the i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al jo(cid:271)s a(cid:396)e the o(cid:374)es (cid:396)elated to, exporting, foreign subsidiaries terminology, expatriates citizens of the home country of the firm or of a third country.
