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Management Labor And Relations

MANAGEMENT LABOR AND RELATIONS
Labor Relations
History
After the great depression during the year 1930’s president Franklin Roosevelt signed Wagner Connery (National Labor Relations Act) Bill into law.
The act encouraged the rationalization of commerce and industry by establishing minimum wages and maximum hours of work
Roosevelt stipulated: “The right to bargain collectively is at the bottom of social justice for the worker, as well as the sensible conduct of business affairs. The denial or observance of this right means the difference between despotism and democracy”
IN THE PHILIPPINES:
Marcos labor code of 1974.
The government encouraged collective bargaining and, except for setting up a commission in 1970 to supervise the fixing of minimum wages, involved itself minimally in labor relations.
P.D. 442 under Aquino Government declared a package of labor-law reforms, including extension of the right to strike, making it easier to petition for a union certification election, and abrogation of repressive labor legislation decreed by the Marcos government.
National Labor Relations Act
It limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector that organize labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands. Collective Bargaining Agreement
An explicit employment contract negotiated by a labor union and employers who employ the union members. Collective bargaining agreements are typically renegotiated periodically.
Collective bargaining is controlled primarily by the laws pertaining to it. The processes of achieving and losing union representation in a health care setting, and nurses’ managers role in collective bargaining, and issues specific to nurses.
Purpose
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