Example sentences of "employer ['s] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the employees , who were warehousemen employed by a company which supplied nuts and bolts , wrote to ten of their employers ' suppliers informing them that they intended to start up in business on their own trading in nuts and bolts , and asking for details of their products . |
| 2 | In Britain once employers ' federations had been established , albeit often in response to trade union expansion and activity , they then proceeded to assume the initiative by redesigning the existing system of industrial relations to their own wishes . |
| 3 | The engineering and steel employers ' federations say most of their members can not afford to stick to the original schedule for boosting eastern wages . |
| 4 | In this study for the Employment Department , Peck and Stone provide some very interesting evidence on employers ' attempts to embrace the new industrial relations . |
| 5 | Parliament and party became increasingly irrelevant , and trade unions and employers ' associations came into positions of political prominence . |
| 6 | At industry level , multi-employer bargaining under the auspices of employers ' associations continues to play an important role in Western European countries such as Germany , France , Sweden and Italy . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | No wonder that , in 1968 , a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers ' Associations wrote : |
| 9 | From the evidence of a 10-country study , Gladstone ( 1984 ) notes that the activities , structure and functions of employers ' associations do show a good deal of inter country variation , often a reflection of distinctive historical experiences and a particular course of industrialisation with resultant differences in the environment in which a country 's industrial relations system has to operate . |
| 10 | focuses on the role which unions and employers ' associations play in hindering or facilitating government economic policy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries . |
| 13 | In Italy , Cella and Treu ( 1982 ) maintain that the structure and initiatives of employers ' associations have tended to be a response to , rather than a determinant of , those of trade unions . |
| 14 | A notorious illustration of this assumption was the failure of the influential Donovan Report on trade unions and employers ' associations to address public sector industrial relations at all ( Donovan 1968 ) . |
| 15 | Conversely , where employers ' associations remained weak and underdeveloped — as in France up to the inter-war period — collective bargaining played a negligible role in setting the terms and conditions of employment , with the result that legislative provisions assumed relatively greater importance . |
| 16 | Employers ' preferences refer not to personality characteristics developed by a specialized , occupational socializing agency — the school — but to life-cycle characteristics . |
| 17 | Testing complicates the issue of fulfilment of the employers ' obligations to provide jobs to successful Compact graduates . |
| 18 | With regard to housing , employers ' policies vary . |
| 19 | Richards argues that employers ' attitudes imply a dual system of work experience — image building for the high-fliers and realism for the rest . |
| 20 | In their view , the effects of employees ’ coalitions keeping wages artificially ‘ high ’ or of employers ' coalitions keeping them artificially ‘ low ’ needs to be fully analysed . |
| 21 | On March 6 the government and employers ' representatives signed an outline agreement with the aim of improving industrial competitiveness and combating inflation , in preparation for the introduction by the European Community ( EC ) countries of the single internal market by December 1992 . |
| 22 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 23 | Curtailing the price rise represented only an interim solution , the government having agreed on Oct. 28 in negotiations with trade union and employers ' representatives to propose within one week legislation freeing fuel prices from state control . |
| 24 | Griffin et al. ( 1986:148 ) emphasise how the employers ' tactics varied in their subtlety . |
| 25 | In France Sellier ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the ( late ) appearance of employers ' organisations oriented towards labour rather than commercial interests , in 1919 and again in 1936 , corresponded to two periods of social crisis and state intervention towards resolving it . |
| 26 | On ballots , the hon. Gentleman quoted what one of the employers ' organisations said about workplace ballots and its proviso that they should be properly conducted . |
| 27 | Some employers ' organisations have put forward alternative suggestions . |
| 28 | In many countries employers ' organisations originated , often in periods of cyclical upswings in economic activity , with the intention of providing protection against onslaughts upon the position of employers and the undermining of their prerogatives , especially from trade unions . |
| 29 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
| 30 | On their part the workers protested over " oppressions " in the shape of late wage payment , truck , " stoppages " from pay for allegedly deficient workmanship , of effecting wage cuts by increasing the measure of work expected for a " price " , and of deducting excessive charges for rent of equipment and the supply of essential items , as often as they did of employers ' combinations to lower wages . |