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¶ … seniority has received an increased attention in labor negotiations in the last year. The first reason is that both sides of the negotiation process have understood and accepted the justice behind the idea of seniority, so both sides have accepted to pay increasing attention to it. The second reason is that seniority is an objective criterion. It is sometimes difficult to identify an objective criterion to differentiate, and seniority offers this: it is always easy to determine the most senior individual in a group or in an organization.
The third reason is that several employee benefit programs are centered around the idea of seniority, including, for example, the proportional amount of vacation days to the number of years spent in the company. The fourth reason is that...
Sometimes, this is a very complicated process, with uncertain results. Finally, the fifth reason is that seniority is a strong motivator for employees and encourages them to stay longer with the company.
There are three major systems used where an employee acquires and applies seniority credits: employerwide, departmental/occupational and a combination between the two. The employerwide system takes into consideration the time that the employee has spent with the company. It does not reflect, in any way, the employee's movement within the organization, namely changes from department to department etc.
There are several advantages with this system. First…
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Secondly, performance-related pay increases prevents inflationary tendencies since such increases are the outcomes of increased productivity. Managers and employees are benefited by performance-related pay increases in the following way: when profit or performance goes up higher earnings go to the employees. However, when the profits come down, the lowering of performance-related pay can protect employees from job losses. Moreover, there is enhanced motivation as employee can identify with the
A secondary mortgage market permits mortgage originators to be more responsive to dynamic mortgage demand and to lower mortgage rates for some homeowners when mortgage demand is higher. According to Koppell (2001): Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are hybrids -- part public, part private -- that affect the lives of most Americans. Anyone who has borrowed money to purchase a home, farm, or pay for college, or invested in a mutual fund
Allabouttruth.org/moral-ethics.htm).In addition, almost 50% of the surveyed adults said they base their moral decisions on whatever will bring them the most pleasing or satisfying results (Moral Ethics, at (http://www.allabouttruth.org/moral-ethics.htm).Research in this area indicates that moral ethics are now considered relative to culture, relative to circumstance, and relative to the specific needs of the individual (Moral Ethics, at (http://www.allabouttruth.org/moral-ethics.htm). From the standpoint of the Department of Justice, moral ethics was a primary
Under these circumstances, an ethical dilemma is born. Should society control its development or leave it to chance? And in the case that it should control it, which categories should it help? If the person in the above mentioned example is helped, we could assume that in a certain way, the person who was not helped because he or she already disposed of the necessary means, the latter one might
Labor Relations & Globalization Argue for or against the use of the "school voucher program." Which do you believe is right? Explain your answer. Both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) identify school voucher programs as a threat to public employees (Carrell & Heavrin, 2007). Critics say that school vouchers provide families with public funds that can be used for private schools with private agendas. Advocates