Absenteeism, Accidents, Strikes and Labour Turnover

B. J. McCormick

Chapter 5 in Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry, 1979, pp 134-179 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Absenteeism, accidents, strikes and labour turnover may be regarded as the outcomes of economic activity and may be intended or unintended in the sense that the amount of, say, absenteeism may be optimal because there is no tendency for either employers or workers to want to change the amount of absenteeism. The notion that the number of absences or their severity is optimal seems, at first sight, to be bizarre, but a moment’s reflection suggests that the idea makes sense if consideration is paid to the costs of reducing absenteeism.

Keywords: Industrial Relation; Coal Industry; Social Security Benefit; Absence Rate; Overtime Working (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03946-3_5

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