Multinational enterprises and the OECD industrial relations guidelines / by Duncan C. Campbell and Richard L. Rowan.
1983
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Multinational enterprises and the OECD industrial relations guidelines / by Duncan C. Campbell and Richard L. Rowan.
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Philadelphia, Pa. : Industrial Research Unit, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, [1983]
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©1983
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xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series
Multinational industrial relations series ; no. 11.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword
INTRODUCTION
Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (CIIME)
Challenges to the Guidelines
The 1979 Review of the Guidelines
The Present Study
Multinationals and Employment
The Issue of Job Export Job Security
The Structure of MNE Industrial Relations: Decentralization
The Locus of Decision Making and the Scope of Industrial Relations
The Content of Industrial Relations
The Issue of Innovation
National Diversity
Where Union Recognition is an Issue
Black & Decker's Spennymoor Plant
The British Context
Summary of the Issues
Comparison with an IBM Subsidiary
Citibank U.K.
The Company'sView
Citibank and Black & Decker: Summary of the Issues
Other Provisions of Paragraph 1
Conclusion
Philips and its Subsidiaries
British and Belgian Subsidiaries
Conclusion
National Diversity
Information Disclosure and International Regulation
Problems with Disclosure
Disclosure of Information in the United States
Information Disclosure in the European Community
When the Parent Company is a Foreign Multinational
The Social Balance Sheet
Proposed European Community Legislation
Other European Community Directives
Phillips
Bendix
Available Data: A Sample of Findings
Employment Policies: Some Examples
Different Employment Standards?
Institutional and Economic Constraints
Warner-Lambert
Export of Personnel?
Training in the Multinational
The Level and Scope of Training
Training Efficiencies of Multinationals
Participation of Employee Representatives
Cooperation with the Relevant Authorities
National Diversity
The United States
The European Community
Countries outside of the EC
Limited Responsibility
Plant Closure Cases
The Plant Closure Issue in the Netherlands: Two Examples
Ford Nederland NV: Closing an Unprofitable Subsidiary
Badger (Belgium) NV
General Telephone and Electronics
Types of Antidiscrimination Legislation
Right to Union Membership
Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States
Antidiscrimination Legislation within the EC
The Issue of Comparable Worth
Other Legislation Affecting Employment Policies
Employing the Disadvantaged
Transfer or Shutdown of Operations during a Union Organizing Campaign: The U.S. Experience
Threat" v. "Prediction" in U.S. Law
Operating during Strikes
The U.S. Experience
The Hertz Corporation
The Danish Dispute
International Action
Submission to the OECD
The CIIME 's Amendments to Paragraph 8
The Shape of Multinational Bargaining Attempts
Obstacles to Transnational Bargaining
Some Attempts at Transnational Industrial Relations
Transnational Initiatives on the National Level
Information, Participation, and National Legislation
BOCI-Viggo
Relevance of the Swedish Codetermination at Work Act
The Substance of Viggo's Investment Plans
Activity at the OECD Level
Philips Finland
The Remarks of the Finnish Contact Point
The Relevance of Finnish Law
Activity at the OECD Level
KSSU/ATLAS
Brief History of the Airline Groupings
The First Issue: Is an Airline Grouping a Multinational?
Follow-up to the 1978 Submission
1980 Round
The Status of Airline Groupings: The Levy Group's Report
Recommendations of the Levy Group
CONCLUSION
The Concept of Voluntary Guidelines
The Industrial Relations Function
The Meaning of the "Chapeau Clause"
APPENDIXES: Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises, ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, Akzo-Enka: The Ten Year History of a Plant Closure
INDEX.
INTRODUCTION
Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (CIIME)
Challenges to the Guidelines
The 1979 Review of the Guidelines
The Present Study
Multinationals and Employment
The Issue of Job Export Job Security
The Structure of MNE Industrial Relations: Decentralization
The Locus of Decision Making and the Scope of Industrial Relations
The Content of Industrial Relations
The Issue of Innovation
National Diversity
Where Union Recognition is an Issue
Black & Decker's Spennymoor Plant
The British Context
Summary of the Issues
Comparison with an IBM Subsidiary
Citibank U.K.
The Company'sView
Citibank and Black & Decker: Summary of the Issues
Other Provisions of Paragraph 1
Conclusion
Philips and its Subsidiaries
British and Belgian Subsidiaries
Conclusion
National Diversity
Information Disclosure and International Regulation
Problems with Disclosure
Disclosure of Information in the United States
Information Disclosure in the European Community
When the Parent Company is a Foreign Multinational
The Social Balance Sheet
Proposed European Community Legislation
Other European Community Directives
Phillips
Bendix
Available Data: A Sample of Findings
Employment Policies: Some Examples
Different Employment Standards?
Institutional and Economic Constraints
Warner-Lambert
Export of Personnel?
Training in the Multinational
The Level and Scope of Training
Training Efficiencies of Multinationals
Participation of Employee Representatives
Cooperation with the Relevant Authorities
National Diversity
The United States
The European Community
Countries outside of the EC
Limited Responsibility
Plant Closure Cases
The Plant Closure Issue in the Netherlands: Two Examples
Ford Nederland NV: Closing an Unprofitable Subsidiary
Badger (Belgium) NV
General Telephone and Electronics
Types of Antidiscrimination Legislation
Right to Union Membership
Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States
Antidiscrimination Legislation within the EC
The Issue of Comparable Worth
Other Legislation Affecting Employment Policies
Employing the Disadvantaged
Transfer or Shutdown of Operations during a Union Organizing Campaign: The U.S. Experience
Threat" v. "Prediction" in U.S. Law
Operating during Strikes
The U.S. Experience
The Hertz Corporation
The Danish Dispute
International Action
Submission to the OECD
The CIIME 's Amendments to Paragraph 8
The Shape of Multinational Bargaining Attempts
Obstacles to Transnational Bargaining
Some Attempts at Transnational Industrial Relations
Transnational Initiatives on the National Level
Information, Participation, and National Legislation
BOCI-Viggo
Relevance of the Swedish Codetermination at Work Act
The Substance of Viggo's Investment Plans
Activity at the OECD Level
Philips Finland
The Remarks of the Finnish Contact Point
The Relevance of Finnish Law
Activity at the OECD Level
KSSU/ATLAS
Brief History of the Airline Groupings
The First Issue: Is an Airline Grouping a Multinational?
Follow-up to the 1978 Submission
1980 Round
The Status of Airline Groupings: The Levy Group's Report
Recommendations of the Levy Group
CONCLUSION
The Concept of Voluntary Guidelines
The Industrial Relations Function
The Meaning of the "Chapeau Clause"
APPENDIXES: Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises, ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy, Akzo-Enka: The Ten Year History of a Plant Closure
INDEX.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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K1715 .C36 1983
Language
English
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0895460394
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