Employment-driven Industrial Relations Regimes: The Singapore ExperienceThis book looks at the introduction of economic constraint into industrial relations and examines whether a wage-driven or employment-driven industrial relations regime can be adopted or is applicable. As the term implies, the former regime produces more employment and generates a higher income for all workers in the long run while the latter obtains a wage premium for the employed at the expense of the unemployed. Furthermore, in a wage-driven industrial relations regime, the strength of the union is an important determinant of wages while there is no such contemporaneous relationship between union strength and wage increases in the employment-driven regime. The book examines the Singapore industrial relations system based on the resource-constraint approach.This book received a commendation in the 1996 Book Awards of Singapore. |
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Applicability to Singapore | 18 |
Trade unions | 46 |
Employers associations | 84 |
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airline industry annual leave Asean associations CAs provided cent Central Provident Fund Chew collective agreement collective bargaining competitiveness confederations corporatism countries craft unions decision determined discussed economic election employers employment-driven industrial relations employment-driven regime enterprise factors Federation firms flexible wage system fringe benefits grievance hotel industry implementation incomes policy approach Indonesia Industrial Arbitration Court industrial democracy industrial disputes industrial relations regime industrial relations system issues labour market labour movement labour-management relations legislation Lep International monetary benefits National Wages Council negotiations non-collective bargaining benefits non-unionized NTUC NWC guidelines objectives organization participation parties perfect competition period plant level political private sector problems productivity promote public sector representatives result retirement age retrenchment benefits role Singapore dollar Singapore's industrial relations SNEF strategy structure trade union union and management union members union membership union officials wage guidelines wage increases wage-driven regime workers workforce