Example sentences of "employer ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Careers Officers will be familiar with practices in local YTS schemes and so are well-placed to comment and advise on employers ' proposals .
2 The employers ' pecking order may undervalue polytechnic graduates : the three highest-ranking Poly 's ( Kingston , Huddersfield and Nottingham ) only start to appear after twentythree universities .
3 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 .
4 The employees appealed and it was held , allowing the appeal , that the industrial tribunal had erred in law in holding that an intention to compete in the future with their employers expressed by the employees in letters to their employers ' suppliers was in itself a breach of a duty of fidelity owed by the employees to the employers and that accordingly the dismissals had been unfair .
5 However , the single most important factor militating against employers ' cooperation was that they never regarded the ‘ problems ’ highlighted by reformers — indiscipline , excessive occupational mobility , absence of vocational guidance , lack of systematic industrial training , and inadequate preparation for family responsibilities and exercise of the franchise — as problems for which they felt responsible ; they had little interest in the search for solutions .
6 Employers could contract ‘ occupational groups ’ of employees out of SERPS and into employers ' provision ( see Groves , 1983 ) .
7 Only 3 boards ( 1 CSE and 2 GCE ) had an interest in researching employers ' views .
8 Although three-quarters of these youngsters joined work experience schemes on employers ' premises , nevertheless the demands on the further education colleges have increased proportionately .
9 " Artisan " could embrace many independent craftsmen trading in their own product from their own shops , but it usually covered as well those skilled manufacturers dependent on work put out by merchant capitalists and wage-earning journeymen on employers ' premises .
10 In turn , this strong bias affects the climate of opinion in society as a whole , but especially in the labour market , where it influences employers ' personnel officers , job centre staff , and other officials and , of course , older workers themselves .
11 In Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Smith breached his duty of fidelity by canvassing his employers ' customers during his last day of employment when he made his last milk round .
12 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 .
13 The engineering and steel employers ' federations say most of their members can not afford to stick to the original schedule for boosting eastern wages .
14 The ‘ wing men ’ comprise one person nominated by trade unions and employees ' federations and one person nominated by the CBI and various employers ' federations .
15 What the NIRC was required to do was to make binding decisions , and to see that they were enforced , in the context of dispute between trade unions , individual workmen , employers , and employers ' federations .
16 employers ' involvement ;
17 Shop-stewards can fail to support black workers or can participate in employers ' discrimination because they know the prejudiced opinions of their members and feel that they can not afford to lose their support .
18 Before 1914 workers suffered from employers ' determination and ability ( in a situation of a plentiful labour supply ) to maintain low money wages regardless of the costs in terms of low productivity and slow adaptation to new technological possibilities .
19 Employers ' visits to schools , their participation in such activities as Mini-Enterprise , mock interviews , Careers lessons and their contributions to subject-based planning are all very helpful .
20 Union conferences passed motions condemning what they described as the growing use of temporary workers and employers ' strategies of substituting temporary for permanent workers .
21 the effects of product market trends and regional specialisms on employers ' strategies ;
22 Employers ' strategies in labour markets are of theoretical interest to economists and sociologists , as well as a practical concern for employers and employees alike .
23 The Report discusses employers ' evaluations of young workers relative to older ones in terms of thirteen ‘ essential attributes ’ .
24 WHAT should Britain do about an examination attacked by the country 's employers ' organisation , by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools , by its university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales ?
25 But the employers ' organisation says the rate of manufacturing pay rises is overstated because of the number of pay freezes .
26 This tendency has been especially marked within large establishments in the engineering and chemical industries , although multi-employer bargaining by means of an employers ' organisation still remains the predominant pattern in highly competitive industries with low capitalisation and a high ease of entry such as clothing , construction and printing ( Sisson , 1984 ) .
27 In particular , the 1902 general strike there accelerated the creation of a central employers ' organisation to provide financial assistance to strike-bound firms ( Forsebäck , 1980 ) .
28 In addition to the factors already discussed , the main stimulus to employers ' organisation in a number of countries appears to have been less that of a counter to growing union power , or an attempt to achieve market or labour force regulation , and more a response to what was perceived as a threat to common employer interests arising from increasing state intervention .
29 A confederated employers ' organisation was set up in 1919 at the behest of the state which wanted a partner for the application of the new law on collective wage agreements .
30 In 1980 the Modern Records Centre published the first title in its Sources Booklet series , providing researchers with relevant references on the role of women in the working situation and in society generally from its extensive holdings of trade union , employers ' organisation and interest group records and personal archives .
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