The impact of the law on industrial disputes in the 1980s: report of a survey of public transport employers

J. Elgar and R. Simpson

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Abstract: This paper reports the results of one part of a research project which investigated the nature and extent of the impact of the labour legislation enacted between 1980 and 1990 on the conduct of the industrial relations and the processes by which this came about. Interviews were carried out with managers in three major public sector transport organisations. All three were subject to radical organisational change during the period under review and had quite extensive experience of dispute in this time. While they had made greater use of the law than employers in other sectors covered by the research project, there were mixed views on the results of this resort to the law. In general the law appeared to be a subsidiary part of, and influence on, the management of the process of change rather than an independent factor influencing management''s relations with trade unions and the workforce.

JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 1994-11
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