Resolving Individual Labour Disputes : A Comparative Overview.
- 1st ed.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. Resolving individual labour disputes: A general introduction. Minawa Ebisui, Sean Cooney and Colin Fenwick -- 2. Australia. Anthony Forsyth -- 3. Canada. Stéphanie Bernstein -- 4. France. Isabelle Daugareilh, Allison Fiorentino, Joël Merkhantar, Sylvain Niquège, Mireille Poirier, Nicolas Sautereau and Sébastien Tournaux -- 5. Germany. Bernd Waas -- 6. Japan. Ryuichi Yamakawa -- 7. Spain. Adoración Guamán Hernández -- 8. Sweden. Jenny Julén Votinius -- 9. United Kingdom. Benjamin Jones and Jeremias Prassl -- 10. United States. Aaron Halegua -- List of figures -- Figure 4.1. National judicial organization of France -- Figure 6.1. Overview of labour dispute resolution systems in Japan -- Figure 6.2. The labour tribunal system -- Figure 6.3. System for resolution of individual labour disputes at prefecturallabour bureaus -- Figure 6.4. Numbers of civil labour cases filed with district courts, 1991-2013 -- Figure 6.5. Number of requests for consultation at prefectural labour bureaus, 2001-13 -- Figure 6.6. Background factors contributing to the increase in individual labour disputes -- Figure 7.1. Channels for the resolution of individual labour disputes in Spain -- Figure 9.1. The UK State apparatus for resolving individual labour disputes -- List of tables -- Table 3.1. Unionization rates in Canada, 2014 -- Table 6.1. Comparison of major dispute resolution systems -- Table 7.1. Conciliation and mediation, within labour administrations and throughautonomous mechanisms -- Table 7.2. Breakdown of individual labour disputes in Spain, 2012-13, by mechanism of resolution -- Table 7.3. Overview of dispute resolution services in selected autonomous communities,2012 and 2013 -- Table 7.4. Outcomes of dispute resolution services in five autonomous communities, 2013. Table 7.5. Summary of outcomes of preliminary administrative conciliation, 2013 -- Table 8.1. Summary of the mechanisms for resolution of individual labour disputes in Sweden -- Table 8.2. Cases filed and resolved in the Swedish Labour Court, 2012-14 -- Table 8.3. Cases brought before the Swedish Labour Court, by type and subject, 2012-14 -- Table 8.4. Average lengths of time from termination of employment/dismissalto judgment on merits and final resolution of dispute, 2005-10 (months) -- Table 9.1. Judicial institutions -- Table 9.2. Conciliation and ADR mechanisms -- Table 9.3. Specialized institutions -- Table 9.4. Other processes and authorities -- Table 9.5. Claim statistics in the ET and EAT -- Table 9.6. Duration of cases in ETs, 2012/13-2014: Cumulative % by age of caseat clearance -- Table 9.7. Enforcement outcomes and prevalence of enforcement action -- Table 10.1. Filing of ULP charges with NLRB and outcomes, 2004-14 -- Table 10.2. USDOL statistics on WHD enforcement work, FY 2010-15 -- Table 10.3. Monies assessed and unrecovered by NYSDOL, 2005-09.
This volume assesses individual labour dispute settlement systems in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.