Introduction In Singapore industrial relations is important as Singapore is a hub for global activities‚ if Singapore were to be an inequitable place to work in‚ it will result in Singapore being unattractive to people to work in and firms would not be enticed to expand their business in Singapore leading to low job creation. There are various systems in place in Singapore to create an equal playing field in industrial relations. But no system is perfect‚ in the essay I would be talking about the
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………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 2. Employment Relations in Singapore ………………………………………………………… 1 3.1 Gender Wage Gap …………………………………………………………………… 1 3.2 Existence of Gender Wage Gap ……………………………………………………… 2 3.3.1 Compensation Differential …………………………………………..……… 2 3.3.2 Family Role Constraints ……………………………………………………. 2 3. Employment Relations Worldwide ………………………………………………………….. 3 4. Equity in Employment Relations ……………………………………………………………. 3 5.3 Economic
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technology nowadays. This contributes to the rising percentage of People with disabilities through either by birth‚ old age or the above reason‚ but are there enough employment policies to protect them and what are the employments issues are they facing? About 5% of the population or 100‚000 people in Singapore have disabilities (Singapore Press Holdings 2012). People with disabilities (PWDs) have needs which are not very different from those of other able-bodied persons. Some of them can lead normal
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Advantages and disadvantages of living in Singapore Many envy those who live in metropolitan cities like Singapore as the standard of living is higher‚ lifestyle is comfortable and the country is a safe haven sheltered from many natural disasters. As the saying goes‚ there are always two sides to a coin. Amid the many advantages‚ lie the disadvantages that a modern city brings. One of the advantages of living in Singapore will be its reputation as a safe haven. In fact‚ Singapore is one of the
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This essay aims to compare the industrial relations in both Singapore and Japan. It will first indentify both countries industrial relation system‚ whether it is unitarist‚ pluralist or radical. It will then touch on the various aspects in the industrial relation system: trade unions‚ system to resolving industrial conflicts‚ wages related policies and discrimination at work. In addition‚ it will look at the policy of lifetime employment and seniority in wages‚ policies which Japan companies have
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essay aims at explaining the state of industrial conflict in Singapore presently. An employment relation is the relationship between managers and employees in an organisation which is usually informal – for example‚ between supervisors and subordinates. At the industrial level‚ the relationship between the management of an organisation and its union is more formal and referred as industrial relation which is a subset of employment relations (Tan‚ 2007). Industrial conflict is the total range of
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the book Labour Relations in the Global Fast Food Industry (Royle & Towers 2002) and its key findings the product of the authors’ ideological frame of reference? Or is it the product of genuine‚ objective research? Introduction Employment relations is the study of all aspect of work and the interaction between the management and the employees or the employee’s representative such as the Union (Ackers and Wilkinson‚ 2005). The underlying beliefs of employment or labour relations are often implicit
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It is vital to have a formal system of employee representation in a business. This can give an opportunity for a business to communicate with employees and the law requires a business to consult with the employees in some situations. It helps management and employees to understand more about the workplace issues and other factors that could affect a business. Moreover‚ this could help to build up trust between employees and managers and therefore workplace relations could be improved. In the UK workplace
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union membership in Singapore and to provide suggestions on how to increase its appeal to the young people‚ the Generation Y‚ in the workforce. Generation Y refers to babies born after the year 1980 (Kuijsters‚ n.d.) The report will have an introduction of union in Singapore‚National Trade Union Congress (NTUC)‚ and analyse the existing strategies and positive aspects thathave been implemented to improve the union membership especially for the Generation Y. About Unions in Singapore NTUC isa central
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Discuss a historical turning point in New Zealand Employment Relations. “Parliament‚ in the last 100 years or so‚ has a lot to say about conditions of work and the relationship between employers and their employees” (Deeks & Rasmussen‚ 2006). There have been many industrial disputes regarding the arbitration system between 1894 and 1991 which has influenced changes to New Zealand Employment Relations. One of the many industrial disputes was the waterfront industrial dispute 1951. This dispute in
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