Loonvorming in tijden van crisis

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurens Harteveld
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Wage Increase ◽  
Wage Formation ◽  
Personal Benefit ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Business Results ◽  
Sectoral Differences ◽  
Agreed Framework ◽  
Wage Increases ◽  
Collective Contract

Wage formation in times of crisis Wage formation in times of crisis The article studies how wage formation in the Netherlands developed since the economic crisis of the end of 2008. Employers’ organisations and trade unions responded to the crisis with a historic novelty. They broke up the national framework agreement for 2009 and negotiated a new framework better adapted to the new conditions. This so-called Spring Agreement 2009 encouraged negotiators for new collective contracts to moderate wage growth. Half a year later the average wage increase had indeed declined to 1%. Inter-sectoral differences in economic development hardly played a role in the wage negotiations, but the expiration date of the collective contract was important. Collective contracts agreed upon before the Spring Agreement show higher wage increases than collective contracts established after the Spring Agreement. Numbers confirm that social partners did not break up collective contracts (unless a bankruptcy is near), but followed the centrally agreed framework in negotiations for a new collective contract. Consequently, a collective wage freeze was agreed upon for more than two million employees in about 30 percent of the collective agreements. In exchange, these employees received extra holidays, a higher personal benefit budget and/or an incidental benefit. In some collective agreements parties did agree a conditional collective wage increase, dependent on business results. All in all, in the wage formation process Dutch corporatism reacted quickly and adequately to the new conditions.

Wage policy under EMU

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Janssen ◽  
Emmanuel Mermet
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Wage Policy ◽  
Wage Formation ◽  
Lower Wage ◽  
The One ◽  
Wage Increases ◽  
The Impact

After reviewing the different theories on the impact of EMU on wage policies and the way in which trade unions have sought to organise international coordination of wage bargaining in Europe, this article investigates whether EMU has had an effect on wage formation. It finds that there is indeed such an effect. EMU has gone hand in hand with relatively lower wage increases than in the pre-EMU period. European coordination of wage bargaining therefore remains necessary and has to be strengthened. This article also describes the interaction that has taken place over the last five years between wage formation on the one hand and macro-economic policies on the other. We find that here there is much scope for an improved and more intense dialogue between trade unions, the ECB and governments.

Schwäche der Tarifautonomie und Legitimitätsfragen im Arbeitsrecht und im Sozialrecht

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
Stephan Seiwerth
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
System Change ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Security Administration ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Partners

AbstractSocial partners have played a privileged role in German social security administration since Bismarckian times. In 2014, a new legislation empowered the social partners to set the level of the statutory minimum wage and to demand the extension of collective agreements. This article examines the interdependence of the trade unions’ and employer organisations’ membership numbers and their involvement in state regulation of labour and social security law. In case the interest in autonomous regulations is not going to increase, the state will have to step in with more heteronomous regulation. This would incrementally lead to a system change.

scholarly journals Trade Unions’ Rights, Work Councils’ Functions and the Legal Framework for Governing European Corporations: a Spanish Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Landa
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
European Regulations ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Double Channel

This paper provides analytical research about changing legislation on the functions of work councils and trade unions in participating in the decision making process at firm level in European countries with systems of double channel based models of representation (like Spain, France or Germany). The paper tests European regulations on the involvement of workers in management decisions, in connection with national rulings passed in some European countries, especially during the financial crisis. The paper will aim at responding the following key questions: What kind of complementarity is to be statutorily built between the functions of work councils and collective agreements in order to guarantee workers’ participation in the governance of corporations? Is codetermination a more effective system than collective bargaining to build on new forms of corporate governance in a transnational context? El presente artículo ofrece una investigación analítica de la cambiante legislación sobre las funciones de los comités de empresa y de los sindicatos para participar en los procesos de toma de decisiones en el seno de la empresa, en países europeos con sistemas basados en la doble representación, como España, Francia y Alemania. El artículo pone a prueba la capacidad de las regulaciones para implicar a los trabajadores en decisiones administrativas, en relación con legislaciones nacionales aprobadas en algunos países, especialmente durante la crisis financiera. El artículo se propone responder a las siguientes preguntas claves: ¿Qué tipo de complementariedad estatutaria debería construirse entre las funciones de los comités de empresa y los acuerdos colectivos para garantizar la participación de los trabajadores en el gobierno de las empresas? ¿Es acaso la codeterminación un sistema más efectivo que la negociación colectiva para construir nuevas formas de gobernanza corporativa en un contexto trasnacional?

scholarly journals Negotiating Electronic Surveillance in the Workplace: A Study of Collective Agreements in Canada

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon J. Kiss ◽  
Vincent Mosco
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Protection Contre ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Worker Activity ◽  
Analyse De Contenu ◽  
Workplace Surveillance ◽  
Vie Privée

Abstract: Innovations in information and communication technology have deepened the problem of workplace surveillance by expanding the capacity to measure and monitor worker activity. This article assesses the extent to which trade unions in Canada have made privacy a sufficiently serious concern to see that privacy protections are incorporated into collective agreements. It assesses the progress made since Bryant’s 1995 study, published in this Journal, which found practically no reference to electronic privacy protection in Canadian agreements. Specifically, the article reports on a content analysis of existing Canadian collective agreements to determine the extent to which privacy has been recognized by trade unions; to examine which sectors, industries, or individual unions have incorporated surveillance protection into their collective agreements; and to identify specific models of surveillance protection clauses in collective agreements. Résumé : Les innovations des technologies d’information et de communication ont élargi les moyens de mesurer et contrôler les activités des employés et, en conséquence, ont approfondi le problème de surveillance dans les milieux de travail. Cet article évalue jusqu’à quel degré les syndicats au Canada ont pris acte d’incorporer des protections da la vie privée contre la surveillance dans les contrats collectifs de travail. L’article examine aussi le progès réalisé depuis l’étude de Bryant publié dans la présente revue en 1995 qui n’a trouvé que des mentions occasionnelles se réfèrant à la protection électronique de la vie privée dans les contracts de travail au Canada. Notamment, les auteurs du présent article proposent une analyse de contenu des contrats de travail canadiens afin de déterminer l’importance de la protection de la vie privée pour les syndicats, d’énumérer les secteurs, les industries ou les syndicats individuels qui ont incorporé des alinéas de protection contre la sureveillance dans leurs contrats de travail, et enfin, d’identifier, dans les mêmes contrats, des modèles spécifiques juridiques de protection.

Costa Rica fiscal reform looks doomed to fail

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Fiscal Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Wage Increases

Subject Fiscal reform protests. Significance President Carlos Alvarado is facing his most severe test since taking office in May, with his efforts to pass a long-awaited fiscal reform sparking strikes and protests across the country. Although the government has initiated a dialogue with trade unions, sustained opposition means that the fiscal reform is likely to be watered down substantially. Impacts Transport disruption will affect regional trade, compounding the transit problems caused by unrest in Nicaragua. The national strike’s success may encourage more such actions in future, potentially over public-sector wage increases. Alvarado’s weakness will increase the dominance of rival political parties in the legislature.

Full Employment, New Technologies and the Distribution of Income

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Meade
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
National Income ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Direct Taxation ◽  
Moderate Growth ◽  
Wage Increases ◽  
Distribution Of Income

ABSTRACTThe basic thesis of this paper is that a necessary condition for the re-establishment of full employment without a runaway inflation is a change of attitudes and institutions concerning wage-fixing which puts more emphasis on the effects of rates of pay on the expansion of employment opportunities and much less emphasis on their effects on the real incomes of those already in employment. A necessary condition for such changes would be to develop further fiscal and social welfare measures to promote an acceptable distribution of income. Unfortunately it is possible that two very desirable developments — namely, labour participation in decision-making in industry and the introduction of new technologies — may make this particular wage-fixing problem more, rather than less, acute. The reforms discussed to meet this problem cover: the use of Keynesian demand-management policies to keep the money national income on a steady but moderate growth path; measures to restrain the setting of monopolistic practices by trade unions; a system of national arbitration and a possible inflation tax to curb excessive wage increases; an integrated reconstruction of social benefits and direct taxation; the substitution of expenditure instead of income as the basis of a progressive direct tax; the possible introduction of an annual wealth tax; and the reform of capital transfer tax to fall progressively on the beneficiaries of gifts and bequests.

scholarly journals The minimum wage as a wage equality policy: Evidence from North Macedonia

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (223) ◽  
pp. 61-81
Author(s):  
Marjan Petreski ◽  
Nikica Mojsoska-Blazevski ◽  
Mariko Ouchi
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Wage Increase ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Wage Level ◽  
Minimum Wage Increase ◽  
Wage Increases ◽  
Wage Compression

The paper aims to investigate if the minimum wage increase of September 2017 resulted in better wage equality in North Macedonia. The increase of 19% was sizable and included levelling up in the three sectors with a lower minimum wage: textiles, apparel, and leather. We extend the ?cell? approach of Card (1992a) and rely on data from the Labour Force Survey 2017 and 2018. The results suggest that the 2017 increase in the minimum wage had a positive, significant, and robust effect on wages. However, the wage increases were almost entirely positioned on the left side of the wage distribution and implied wage compression up to or around the minimum wage. The bunching around the new minimum wage level ?equalised? workers: those who previously earned the new minimum wage level equalised with the less productive workers who approximated their wage only by the power of the law. Hence, wage equality improved. The results confirm that the minimum wage can be an important wage equality policy, with considerably limited upward spillover effects in the current policy and institutional setup.

scholarly journals Macroeconomic Effects of Minimum Wage Increases in an Economy with Wage Underreporting

2018 ◽  
pp. 10-33
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Antonova
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Wage Increase ◽  
Minimum Wage Increase ◽  
Dsge Model ◽  
Macroeconomic Effects ◽  
Wage Increases

I have built a monetary DSGE model to investigate how wage underreporting in an economy characterized by a minimum wage regime affects the macroeconomic response to a minimum wage increase. The model is calibrated and estimated for Ukraine. The main result is that under a higher degree of wage underreporting, the economy is less responsive to a minimum wage shock. Quantitatively, the magnitude of the response to a minimum wage shock is affected by the share of non-Ricardian households, that is, households that do not have access to financial markets and consequently consume all of their income each period.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF WAGES ON MULTIPLE JOB HOLDING DECISIONS IN INDONESIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE INDONESIAN FAMILY LIFE SURVEY (IFLS) DATA OF 2007 AND 2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Niken Dwi Wijayanti ◽  
Vid Adrison
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Multinomial Logit ◽  
Wage Increase ◽  
Reservation Wage ◽  
Job Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indonesian Family Life Survey ◽  
Wage Increases

Multiple job holding - i.e., a phenomenon in which workers have more than one job has become a trend in developed countries and is beginning to occur in developing countries, such as Indonesia. Existing studies provide the evidence that wages are a significant and consistent criterion to determine multiple job decisions. Wage increases in the primary job will decrease the incentive to have a second job as the reservation wage increases. However, we do not find any study which links the current multiple job decision with the past multiple job status. In this study, we use data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) in 2007 and 2014 to investigate whether or not a wage increase in the primary job reduces the incentive to have a second job in 2014, controlling for the multiple job status in 2007. Using logit and multinomial logit estimations, we find that the wage increase in the primary job decreases the probability of having a second job in 2014.

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