Answer to Question #275703 in Management for Shelley

Question

Are the levels of employee representation in Germany, UK and Sweden emerged in Fiji? Why?

500-600 words

Answer 1

Collective bargaining coverage - the percentage of workers covered by collective agreements – is tied to membership in signatory employer organizations and trade unions, as well as agreement expansions to other enterprises and workers in a sector.

Firm, sectoral, or even national bargaining levels are used to negotiate collective bargaining agreements. Firm-level and higher-level collective bargaining are combined in multi-level bargaining.

The degree to which corporations can change the terms of higher-level agreements. This spans from totally decentralised systems, where collective bargaining can only take place at the business level, to centralised systems, where enterprises have little or no room to deviate from sectoral or national-level agreements. Between these two extremes, organized decentralisation permits sectoral agreements to establish broad framework conditions while leaving specific provisions to firm-level bargaining.Wage negotiation coordination helps to account for the macroeconomic impacts of wage agreements by ensuring that they do not impede external competitiveness and are established in line with the business cycle. This could be one of the reasons for the empirical link between coordinated systems and higher aggregate employment. The most powerful kind of pay coordination creates a wage norm that provides a maximum for collectively agreed-upon salary increases in all sectors.