Labour Relations and Health Reform
Labour Relations and Health Reform

Author: K. Wetzel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-10-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0230514626

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Over the past 25 years, governments that operate publicly-funded health care systems have endeavoured to modernize service delivery and to control health spending. This has occasioned high profile efforts to reform and restructure previously stable health systems. Health organizations are typically complex, labour intensive and unionized. Health reform can have enormous consequences for workers and their unions. Governments' ideologies determine the nature of reform initiatives. This book examines the experiences of five jurisdictions - Great Britain, New Zealand, New South Wales, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Industrial Relations and Health Services
Industrial Relations and Health Services

Author: Amarjit Singh Sethi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-21

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1040122353

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Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA. While there are differences between the systems in these three countries, such differences illuminate the particular responses and policies that need to be made in varying circumstances. It is written by practitioners as well as academics, so that it will provide practical insights into bargaining strategies, labour relations issues and conflict resolution techniques.

Radium Girls
Radium Girls

Author: Claudia Clark

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0807860816

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In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But after repeated exposure to the radium-laced paint, they began to develop mysterious, often fatal illnesses that they traced to conditions in the workplace. Their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease represents an important chapter in the history of modern health and labor policy. Clark's account emphasizes the social and political factors that influenced the responses of the workers, managers, government officials, medical specialists, and legal authorities involved in the case. She enriches the story by exploring contemporary disputes over workplace control, government intervention, and industry-backed medical research. Finally, in appraising the dialpainters' campaign to secure compensation and prevention of further incidents--efforts launched with the help of the reform-minded, middle-class women of the Consumers' League--Clark is able to evaluate the achievements and shortcomings of the industrial health movement as a whole.

Australian Workplace Relations
Australian Workplace Relations

Author: Julian Teicher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-06-24

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1107292743

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Australian Workplace Relations explains the defining themes in workplace relations in the twenty-first century. It explores issues relating to employee voice, declining trade union membership, occupational health, disadvantaged workers and surveillance in the workplace. The treatment of each topic is placed in both a national and an international context. The book examines the effects on Australian workplace relations of globalisation, the changing international economy and the Global Financial Crisis. It provides a comprehensive examination of the Fair Work Act 2009. Case studies provide in-depth explorations of four important sectors of the economy: health, retail and hospitality, the public sector and motor vehicle components. The textbook includes additional resources for students and lecturers on a companion website: Power-Point slides, lists for further reading, additional case studies and links to websites. Comprehensive and fully cross-referenced, Australian Workplace Relations is an invaluable resource for upper-level undergraduate students of workplace, employee or industrial relations.

Employment Relations in the Health Service
Employment Relations in the Health Service

Author: Stephen Bach

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1136006389

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Employment relations within the health sector have undergone radical reform over recent years. This book is an important new study that examines the responses of managers and workers to these different reforms, at both national and local level. Bringing together analyses of both employment relations and public sector management, the book focuses on understanding why certain initiatives have been adopted, how managers have responded to them and the consequences of the HR modernisation agenda. Topics covered include: HR strategy and structure at the workplace employee involvement and union influence pay modernisation management of work. Featuring detailed case study research in three NHS trusts, the book illustrates precisely how government policies are implemented in the workplace and in doing so offers a unique insight into the sector's changing work environment. A comprehensive study of atopical area, this book will be of interest to students and academics in health service management, human resource management and employment relations.

The Health Care Supervisor on Effective Employee Relations
The Health Care Supervisor on Effective Employee Relations

Author: Charles R. McConnell

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780834203662

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Provides insight into a wide range of employee relations concerns. Contains articles on the evolution of employee relations; human resources management; employee motivation; employee clout; the importance of supervisors being readily visible and available to employees; dealing with difficult employees, angry employees, and people who fail to produce; handling manipulation; responding to the codependent employee; dealing with staff resistance; etc. Includes a section on special problems and processes, such as conflict negotiation, absenteeism, delegation of authority, disciplinary and grievance procedures, team-building techniques, employee health services, etc. Also discusses challenging change, the impact of mergers on employees, and planning and implementing a staff reduction.

Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry
Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry

Author: P. Stanton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-10

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0230596002

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This book focuses on the relationship between health sector and industrial relations reforms and the impact these have had on employment relations in Australia since 1990. The book adds to the international literature on New Public Management with a distinctively Australian focus and synthesizes the impact of health sector and industrial relations reforms on health care management and work practices. It illustrates that New Public Management practices have been implemented creatively at both macro and micro levels. The book provides context to the changing work practices in the health care sector.

The Idea of Labour Law
The Idea of Labour Law

Author: Guy Davidov

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-06-02

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0191621889

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Labour law is widely considered to be in crisis by scholars of the field. This crisis has an obvious external dimension - labour law is attacked for impeding efficiency, flexibility, and development; vilified for reducing employment and for favouring already well placed employees over less fortunate ones; and discredited for failing to cover the most vulnerable workers and workers in the "informal sector". These are just some of the external challenges to labour law. There is also an internal challenge, as labour lawyers themselves increasingly question whether their discipline is conceptually coherent, relevant to the new empirical realities of the world of work, and normatively salient in the world as we now know it. This book responds to such fundamental challenges by asking the most fundamental questions: What is labour law for? How can it be justified? And what are the normative premises on which reforms should be based? There has been growing interest in such questions in recent years. In this volume the contributors seek to take this body of scholarship seriously and also to move it forward. Its aim is to provide, if not answers which satisfy everyone, intellectually nourishing food for thought for those interested in understanding, explaining and interpreting labour laws - whether they are scholars, practitioners, judges, policy-makers, or workers and employers.