The Employment Contract: From Collective Procedures To Individual Rights

William Brown, Simon Deakin, David Nash and Sarah Oxenbridge

Working Papers from Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

Abstract: The article analyses the institutional basis and form of the employment contract in Britain using the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey. It assesses the extent to which collective bargaining still regulates pay and non-pay aspects of employment. The paper shows that while collective procedures have declined in importance, there has been an increase in legal governance of the employment relationship. Logistic regression analysis establishes that both contractual formalisation and legal compliance are greater in larger organisations and where trade unions are present. Trade union activity is also associated with superior fringe benefits. Collective bargaining thus appears to facilitate both access to and improvement on statutory rights.

Keywords: employment contract; labour law; collective bargaining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J41 J53 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab and nep-law
Note: PRO-2
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