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HRMT20029 International Employment Relation

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Central Queensland University

   

International Employment Relations (HRMT20029)

   

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This essay will discuss researchers who have committed themselves to investigate and looking for a detailed conclusion on how various nations coordinate with the public service boards in the recruitment and maintenance of employees. It will also discuss the primary reason why civil servants form these trade unions is the fact that they believe that they have always remained marginalized and instead of the government handling them as influential people. This essay will focus on government expectations, authority relationship between government and civil servants and the Denmark case.

HRMT20029 International Employment Relation

   

Central Queensland University

   

International Employment Relations (HRMT20029)

   Added on 2020-03-04

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Running head: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS1International Employment RelationsStudent NameInstitution
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EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS2Recently, many researchers have committed themselves to investigating and looking for adetailed conclusion on how various nations coordinate with the public service boards in recruitment and maintenance of employees. This provides clear evidence that the public service labor relations are an important body which is highly recognized than any other sector in most ofthe states (Milner, 2012). It is also evident that employees do not possess equal bargaining powers for their rights and thus they are always limited to carry industrial actions such as strikes than the private sector workers (Bryson, 2011). Regardless of less or more collective bargaining power possession of rights, employees who work in the same field of specification team up and form trade unions which fight for their exploited rights whenever such case occurs. This trade union spirit is mostly found with the public servants as compared to those who work in the private sector (Wagner & Refslund, 2016. The primary reason why civil servants form these trade unions is the fact that they believe that they have always remained marginalized and instead of the government handling them as influential people, they neglect them hoping to find the assigned duties performed excellently. What the government expects most from the public servants is total cooperation and maximum commitment regardless of how they treat them and also their remuneration. This is a belief of many of the civil servants in most of the countries. Public service employment conditions of the public sector are always very different compared to those of the industry, and that's why civil servants have the highest probability and always prone to industrial actions such as strikes and public demonstrations through their trade unions (Damesin, 2009). Denmark is better off when compared to France in terms of employee’s protection Act. The industrial relations are more favorable at Denmark that in France.
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EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS3Authority relationship between the government and the civil servants is practiced in most of the countries, France being one of the highly dominated countries by this kind of relationship Laroche (2016). The public civil service system is governed and operated under four civil servicelaws. The combination of these services forms a civil service statute. The rights and responsibilities of the workers are contained in this law. The statute also gives the three fundamental laws which govern the workers in their day to day activities while working for the government (Due & Madsen, 2008). The law which rules the rights of the public state employees(la Fonction Publique de L’etat), those employees located in regional or local government basements (la Fonction Publique territoriale) and those civil servants who work in the hospitals, specifically the nursing staff (la function public hospitaliere) (Mainland 2010).In the case of Denmark, it has been an opinion for all that the level of collective bargaining power of the public employees is very high. This was estimated to be about 90% of the total coverage by the Danish ministry of Labor. Just like in France, trade union is also highly practiced in Denmark with the public servants claiming to be neglected by the government, moreso when it comes to remuneration (Laroche, 2016. According to studies carried out by different statisticians, it is evident that 52% of the servants under private sector have been covered by the collective bargaining agreement which is entirely different case to that of France since a minimalnumber of private workers has been included in the accord (Scheuer, Steen, Collective Bargaining Coverage and the Status Divide: Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom Compared). Initially, there was no private worker involved. They believe that the low-level of bargaining power is brought about by the poor or weak organizational structure of the staff and they have discouraged it Ibsen (2016).
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EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS4In France, the civil service board is the determinant factor and also the most powerful organ in the sector of employment, salaries, and remuneration of various workers. It offers decrees which should be adhered to by the employees. The central principle of the French state recruitment and employment panel is that all the public staff members in whichever field have a civil service status Milner (2012).It is the obligation of the state to determine and set the various salaries for their workers such that if the employees may not feel comfortable with the amount, the best option is to quit and not comprise or negotiate with the government agencies. This has been among the leading drivers leading to the formation of different trade unions which fight for the rights and needs of the neglected (Rosemain, 2013). Civil service board in Denmark is very highly recognized, just like in France but not because of its stubbornness and ability to stress or exploit the workers but it's because it is made to fight for the rights of the employers. Employees are treated like human beings and with a lot of sympathies and for this reason, there is no enmity or grudge between the private sector worker, public servants and the government (Milner & Mathers, 2013). This is evidenced by the inclusion of about 52% of the private employees in the collective bargaining agreement which is not the case in France where the public servants believe that they have been neglected and all thecredits directed to the private workers.All the relations governing labor in France are organized under a very highly institutionalized system. The system is composed of different commissions which join through an unofficial a collective bargaining system influenced much by politics and which the salaries and remunerated system is always a subject of negotiation. Through the trade unions, the government loosened their stand to allow salary negotiations to allow smooth running and a better relationship with the workers. This was agreed as early as from 1968 through an
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