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OPTING OUT OF PAY DEVOLUTION - THE PROSPECTS FOR LOCAL PAY BARGAINING IN UK PUBLIC-SERVICES

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UNSPECIFIED (1994) OPTING OUT OF PAY DEVOLUTION - THE PROSPECTS FOR LOCAL PAY BARGAINING IN UK PUBLIC-SERVICES. BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 32 (2). pp. 263-282.

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Abstract

Throughout the 1980s, government ministers strongly advocated the decentralization of pay determination in the public services. Despite this exhortation, by the end of the decade rates of pay and salary structures were rarely determined at workplace level. This paper explores the resilience of national pay determination and considers whether it will survive the radical restructuring of public services initiated in the last few years. The analysis focuses mainly on the health and education services, arguing that distinctive organizational, occupational and political characteristics of the services still constrain the devolution of pay bargaining. In the face of tight budgets and the recent introduction of pay restraint, service managers have sought to make paybill savings through unilateral changes in work organization rather than through devolved collective bargaining.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Journal or Publication Title: BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBL LTD
ISSN: 0007-1080
Official Date: June 1994
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June 1994UNSPECIFIED
Volume: 32
Number: 2
Number of Pages: 20
Page Range: pp. 263-282
Publication Status: Published

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