Business transfers and contracting out

Employee Relations - Tập 17 Số 8 - Trang 21-28 - 1995
NickAdnett1, StephenHard2, RichardPainter3
1Principal Lecturer, Economics Division, Institute of Industrial and Commercial Law, at Staffordshire University, Stoke‐on‐Trent, UK.
2Stephen Hardy is Research Scholar, Institute of Industrial and Commercial Law, at Staffordshire University, Stoke‐on‐Trent, UK.
3Dean of the Law School, at Staffordshire University, Stoke‐on‐Trent, UK.

Tóm tắt

Compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) and market testing are central and controversial planks of government economic policy. Critics question the level of efficiency gains which flows from the process and point to the deterioration of workers′ terms and conditions of employment in the aftermath of contracting out exercises. Recent case law, in extending employment protection rights to workers caught up in contracting‐out exercises, may make CCT a much less attractive proposition to private contractors. Analyses recent developments and, in the context of the draft revised directive on business transfers, poses the question whether CCT is destined to become a failed economic experiment.

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Employee Relations

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