Employment Relations in Outsourced Public Services: Working Between Market and State

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Anna Mori
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Employment Relations

Pandemic effects on public service employment in Australia

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462110560
Author(s):  
Linda Colley ◽  
Shelley Woods ◽  
Brian Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Considerable Change ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic is sending shockwaves through communities and economies, and public servants have risen to the novel policy challenges in uncharted waters. This crisis comes on top of considerable turmoil for public services in recent decades, with public management reforms followed by the global financial crisis (GFC) leading to considerable change to public sector employment relations and a deprivileging of public servants. The research adopts the lens of the ‘public service bargain’ to examine the effects of the pandemic across Australian public services. How did Australian public service jurisdictions approach public employment in 2020, across senior and other cohorts of employees? How did this pandemic response compare to each jurisdictions’ response to the GFC a decade earlier? The research also reflects more broadly of the impact on public sector employment relations and to what extent pandemic responses have altered concepts of the diminished public service bargain or the notion of governments as model employers? JEL Codes J45

Employment relations and public services “modernisation” under Labour

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 629-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bach ◽  
Ian Kessler ◽  
Geoff White
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Employment Relations

The Rise and Rise of Market Relations in the British Public Sector: Implications for Industrial Relations

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Carter ◽  
Steven Davies ◽  
Peter Fairbrother
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Changing Patterns

Having outlined a traditional model of British public sector industrial relations, this article focuses on developments from the 1980s to 2001. It argues that there has been a reorganisation of the state through privatisation and an historical shift in employment relations, from the state as a ‘model’, administrative employer to an increasingly managerial employer. In effect, a depoliticisation of employment relations has taken place, with the withdrawal of central government from direct control over operational and organisational activity in the public services. As part of these processes, the public services in Britain have been marketised, with the creation of a public service sector, no longer defined by ownership but by the service provided. These developments are reflected in the changing patterns of industrial relations activity in the public services, with profound implications for trade unionism.

scholarly journals The impact of public services outsourcing on work and employment conditions in different national regimes

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mori
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Services Outsourcing ◽  
Matched Case ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of outsourcing of public services on employment relations and working conditions in three countries: Italy, the United Kingdom and Denmark. It presents six matched case studies and investigates whether contracting out by public administrations causes a market-driven convergence across national boundaries or whether cross-country differences endure. Although outsourcing blurs the organizational boundaries between public and private sectors everywhere, making terms and conditions of employment fragmented and less protected, distinct structures and legacies of national employment relations institutions result in differences between national trajectories.

New forms of employment relations in the public services: the limits of strategic choice

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Kessler ◽  
John Purcell ◽  
Jackie Coyle Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Strategic Choice ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
The Public

DYNAMICS OF TAXES, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND ENDOGENOUS GROWTH

2001 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Hyun Park ◽  
Apostolis Philippopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Endogenous Growth ◽  
Public Services
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