Contract Renewal Research Articles

Dynamic Models for the Time Series of Industrial Conflict in the Labour Market

ABSTRACT: In the aim to investigate the behaviour of some indicators for the industrial conflict and to detect the relation between such variables and the cost of labour in Italy, this paper suggests the use of Box‐Jenkins’time series analysis. By fitting a different stochastic process for each series, it can be shown that every indicator gives a different kind of information about the industrial conflict, so that they can't be indifferently substituted by each other. In a second step, cross correlation function estimates between cost of labour and each indicator suggest the different role played by 'strike frequency’and strike duration during any contract renewal.

Funding human services: fixed utility versus fixed budget.

It is argued in this paper that government allocations for human services based on inputs rather than outcomes, reduce efficiency in social and health service provision. An alternative system of budgeting or contracting on the basis of cost-per-closed case and case outcome is discussed. An interdependency between fixed budget and fixed utility models of allocation is affirmed. The locus of decision-making for operationalizing this interdependency is seen as the program and budget review panel to which operating agencies and government departments must submit financial and program accounting information from year to year. In isolation, the fixed budget approach degenerates into routine allocation or contract renewal with a focus on such input and output variables as volume of service and unit cost, and the fixed utility approach, into political stalemate. Simulated examples are given to demonstrate how allocation on the basis of inputs and outputs alone provides an incentive to inefficiency, and a fixed utility orientation to efficiency.

Spatial Distribution of Bargaining Power: Binding Arbitration in Connecticut School Districts

Traditionally, negotiations in Connecticut concerning teacher contract renewal are conducted at the local level between members of the district board of education and members of the district teacher union. However, with the adoption in Connecticut of ‘issue last offer’ binding arbitration, there has been an acceleration in the use of professional bargaining representatives, including attorneys and Statewide union agents. The proliferation of professional representatives, together with the introduction of professional arbitrators, helps explain many of the phenomena associated with the early years of this new procedure: namely, an initial increase in the proportion of school districts going to arbitration rather than settling during an earlier negotiation phase; an upsurge in the standardization of collective agreements at the expense of innovation and situational responsiveness; and, more important, a loss in the local ‘flavor’ of the negotiation process. This paper will critically examine the implications of these trends both for the political nature of educational dispute resolution in Connecticut and for the spatial distribution of bargaining power.

THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY, DISCRIMINATION, AND ACADEMIC PERSONNEL POLICY

ABSTRACTDuring the Seventies more than 133 civil rights decisions regarding academic personnel practices were issued by the federal judiciary. Various statutes were utilized to test the validity of personnel record confidentiality, academic credentials in job selection, pension plans and salary systems, and contract renewal, promotion and tenure decisions. Generally academic institutions lost when they challenged the jurisdictional and procedural authority of the government, but won a substantial majority of cases where individual faculty attacked a personnel decision. Overall the most significant trend was the growing willingness of federal courts to require that academic personnel policies conform to broad principles of civil rights law. In the Eighties these principles may substantially alter traditional personnel policies in higher education.

UBSDELL v. PATERSON

December 14, 1972 Master and servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Renewal of contract — Sale of hotel — Acceptance by employee of same wages — Wages subsequently reduced without employee's agreement — Whether renewal of contract by conduct of purchaser — Whether renewal “by agreement with employee” — Redundancy Payments Act 1965 (c 62) ss. 3 (2) (a), 13 (2).

CARTIN v. THE BOTLEY GARAGES LTD.

December 15, 1972 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Redundancy payment — Dismissal — Renewal of contract or re‐engagement — Change in ownership of business — Termination of contract one week later — Whether contract of employment renewed on same terms and conditions — Whether employee entitled to redundancy payment from previous employer — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), ss.3(2), 13(2).

RAMSEYER MOTORS LTD. v. BROADWAY AND MAGEE

October 6, 1971 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Redundancy payment — Dismissal — Renewal of contract or re‐engagement — Change in ownership of business — “Offer in writing” of re‐engagement contained in several documents — Final document did not expressly refer to all earlier documents — Whether earlier documents could be incorporated by necessary inference — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62), ss. 3(2) (b), 13 (2).

Dale v. Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

423International organization — Officials — Renewal of fixed-term contract — Undertaking given by Administration to consider an official for continued employment — Failure to perform that undertaking.

Desviación en túnel de la línea férrea, en el principado de Mónaco

The renewal of the development contract for the Marseilles-Vintimilla railway, which crosses Monaco, has necessitated the introduction of changes in the railway layout. As Monaco has a small area, this has obliged the authorities to seek a new arrangement that would enable them to recuperate some of the ground area taken up by the railway line. The new arrangement, along a distance of 3,491 m, has been constructed largely underground, and it involves tunnels, separated by a narrow valley. The Montecarlo section has been faced with a number of difficulties, almost all of them due to the poor geological soil condition. More than 280,000 m 3 of excavated soil has been used to gain some useful area from the sea.

Mély v. Secretary-General of the United Nations.

International organization — Officials — Termination of appointment — Subsequent alteration in reasons stated for termination — Damages — Renewal of fixed-term contract.

KITCHING v. WARD SAME v. WATSON SAME v. TAYLOR

April 21, 1967 Master and servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Renewal of contract — Employees served with notice — Subsequent request by employer to stay on to finish a job — Refusal by employee having new employment — Offer accepted by other employees for short time — Whether employer “offered to renew” contract — Whether unreasonable refusal — Whether “contract of employment . . . renewed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62), ss.2(3), 3(2), 56(1).