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| Author: | Fredman, S. Morris, G. |
| Title: | The state as employer: setting a new example. |
| Journal: | Personnel Management
1989 : AUG, VOL. 21:8, p. 25-29 |
| Index terms: | EMPLOYMENT POLICY PUBLIC SECTOR UNITED KINGDOM |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A review of the implications for the public and private sector of the change in attitude of the British government to its `model' employer image. The roots of the `model' employer concept. Change in strategy to `contract compliance'. The Thatcherite ideology. Competitive tendering. Reduction in size of the Civil Service. Undermining of collective bargaining institutions and response to market forces. Pay and conditions in the National Health Service. Opposition of local authorities to the dismantling of national bargaining arrangements. The removal of Fair Wages Resolution and introduction of Employment Act. 1988 Local Government Act making non- -commercial matters unlawful. The disappearance of the model good employer. |
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