Contract compliance and equal opportunities

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Linda Smith ◽  
John Carr
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Contract Compliance ◽  
Education Authority

In 1983, the Greater London Council adopted a policy of ‘Contract Compliance’ designed to ensure that firms selling goods and services to the Council complied with its equal opportunity requirements. The initiative aroused wide interest and many other local authorities - 40 are known of to date — have been considering introducing such a policy. Although simple in essence, its execution can be complex and difficult. In April 1986, the Inner London Education Authority, a partner in the GLC policy, took over the Contract Compliance Unit following the GLCs abolition. Linda Smith explains the background to contract compliance, how the GLC, now ILEA, operates the policy; assesses its achievements and its significance and explores some of the lessons learnt in its three years of operation.

Center and periphery

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 429-448
Author(s):  
Eli Ben Harush ◽  
Nitza Davidovitch
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
School Based ◽  
Central District ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Peripheral Areas

Reducing disparities and equal opportunities between central and peripheral areas is a leading topic in the educational discourse. The current study examines to what degree the Meitzav test, which constitutes a measure of the school’s level (academic achievements and social-academic climate), can bridge the disparities between students of different socioeconomic backgrounds from the perspective of 206 teachers who responded to the research questionnaires. The contribution of the study is in understanding the causes of the disparate grades in the two districts and ways of reducing the disparities. Understanding these factors and detecting them to reduce the disparities between the southern and central district is extremely significant, and their consequences also affect the future acquisition of a secondary education and an academic education. The research findings may have a practical contribution to policymakers in the school-based educational system, with the aim of increasing equality and giving students an equal opportunity to succeed in their studies.

Bureaucratic Power and Public Policies: A Test of the Rational Staff Maximization Hypothesis

1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Boyne
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Political System ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Bureaucratic Power ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Local Party

This paper tests the staff maximization hypothesis that bureaucratic power is positively related to labour inputs to the production of public sector goods and services. The context of the test is the staffing policies of three groups of British local authorities in three time periods. The relationship between bureaucratic power and changes in authorities' staff is estimated while controlling for the influence of local party politics, central grants and conditions in the environment of the local political system. The results of the statistical analysis refute the staff maximization hypothesis.

scholarly journals ANTI-DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT REGULATION FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Imma Indra Dewi W
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Discrimination In Employment ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
Laws And Regulations

<p>Anti-discrimination is known as equal opportunity and treatment which is the right of every citizen in each aspects of life. The principles of anti-discrimination must be included in every product of legislation, including the employment regulation for persons with disabilities in Indonesia. Anti-discrimination in employment regulation for persons with disabilities have been included in the Indonesian constitution. In addition, it has also been adopted in various articles on legislation,regulating about employment for persons with disabilities, namely Law Number 3 of 2013, Law Number  19 of 2011 and LawNumber 8 of 2016. In substance, the law that guarantees the rights of persons with disabilities in a number of laws and regulations in Indonesia is sufficient. However, the regulation in Law Number  13 of 2003 on The Labor Law is not yet clear. Adjustments need to be made on Law Number  13 of 2003, Law Number  19 of 2011, and Law Number  8 of 2016. The need for the many provisions of labor laws that have not been implemented, thus it requires affirmative action to realize equal opportunities in all aspects of life and livelihood for persons with disabilities.</p>

A methodology for managing public spaces to increase access to essential goods and services by vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Regal Ludowieg ◽  
Claudio Ortega ◽  
Andrés Bronfman ◽  
Michelle Rodriguez Serra ◽  
Mario Chong
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Facility Location ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Response Phase

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a spatial decision support system (SDSS) to be used by the local authorities of a city in the planning and response phase of a disaster. The SDSS focuses on the management of public spaces as a resource to increase a vulnerable population’s accessibility to essential goods and services. Using a web-based platform, the SDSS would support data-driven decisions, especially for cases such as the COVID-19 pandemic which requires special care in quarantine situations (which imply walking access instead of by other means of transport).Design/methodology/approachThis paper proposes a methodology to create a web-SDSS to manage public spaces in the planning and response phase of a disaster to increase the access to essential goods and services. Using a regular polygon grid, a city is partitioned into spatial units that aggregate spatial data from open and proprietary sources. The polygon grid is then used to compute accessibility, vulnerability and population density indicators using spatial analysis. Finally, a facility location problem is formulated and solved to provide decision-makers with an adaptive selection of public spaces given their indicators of choice.FindingsThe design and implementation of the methodology resulted in a granular representation of the city of Lima, Peru, in terms of population density, accessibility and vulnerability. Using these indicators, the SDSS was deployed as a web application that allowed decision-makers to explore different solutions to a facility location model within their districts, as well as visualizing the indicators computed for the hexagons that covered the district’s area. By performing tests with different local authorities, improvements were suggested to support a more general set of decisions and the key indicators to use in the SDSS were determined.Originality/valueThis paper, following the literature gap, is the first of its kind that presents an SDSS focused on increasing access to essential goods and services using public spaces and has had a successful response from local authorities with different backgrounds regarding the integration into their decision-making process.

China's 1905 Anti-American Boycott: A Nationalist Myth?

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Meissner
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
Goods And Services

AbstractOn 10 May 1905, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce called a boycott against American goods and services. Notices of compliance soon began arriving at Shanghai from guilds in China's major cities and as far away as the Straits Settlement and San Francisco. Aroused by patriotic passion, students and workers soon joined the movement, organizing boycott meetings and demonstrations, circulating anti-American placards, and editorializing in China's emerging liberal press. Chinese brokers canceled orders for American products, shop owners destroyed stocks of American merchandise, laborers left American firms, domestics walked out of American homes, and dockhands refused to unload American goods. For several months, the boycott spread in range and depth of commitment until rigorous suppression by central and local authorities under pressure from the foreign Powers brought the movement to an end.

scholarly journals ENGLISH: Islamic View on Right to Equal Opportunity to Work for Female Ex-Offenders and Pakistan's International Obligation for Provision of Equal Opportunities for Work

rahatulquloob ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Abida Sikander Khan ◽  
Prof. Dr. Farkhanda Zia
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
International Obligation ◽  
Discrimination In Employment ◽  
Natural Difference ◽  
Islamic View

 Women in Muslim society faces obstacles to get employment since it is generally assumed that Islam does not allow women to work as their responsibility is to be shouldered by men. This misapprehension leads to issue of gender discrimination in employment and situation get further worse when women hold criminal record. Therefore this paper sheds lights on Islamic view of gender equality while taking into consideration the natural difference exist between man and woman. Then the study aims to discuss that Shariah recognizes human rights of women in Islam and allows women to work as there is no explicit Quranic verse or tradition which ban jobs of women. The article further elaborates that women with previous criminal record are abandoned by the society and their families which further substantiate their right of to get employment in order to meet their ends. The article further encompasses discussion of conflicting interest of ex-offender women and society and how the same can be settled with harmony while applying principles of Islamic jurisprudence.  The article has referred verses of the Qur’an, Sunnah of the Prophet (S.A.W.) practices of caliphs⁎ and opinion of Muslim jurists to enrich the legal analysis. The articles also encompasses Pakistan’s international obligation for provision of equal opportunities to work for all without discrimination to give an insight about basis to claim right to work for female offenders.

scholarly journals Green Procurement Practices in Romania: Evidence from a Survey at the Level of Local Authorities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 10169
Author(s):  
Tudor Ciumara ◽  
Iulia Lupu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Green Procurement ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Green Public Procurement ◽  
Environmental Protection Policies ◽  
Administrative Units

Public procurement is considered an important driver of an economy and has a considerable power in orienting the market, including toward environmental protection policies and strategies. This study examines the green public procurement practiced at the level of local Romanian authorities with the aim of understanding the real context by highlighting the mix between what is required and/or expected from local authorities and what is actually happening in terms of green public procurement. The research is based on the results of an online survey conducted from 16 August 2019 to 18 September 2019. The research results show that green procurement is not a subject approached in many administrative units; however, it appears that environmental protection in the context of public procurement is considered important. In line with other research, our results enrich the current knowledge on green procurement practices at the local government level and indicate that increased regulatory pressure for green public procurement may lead to market development and innovation for green goods and services.

The moment of municipal feminism: gender and class in 1980s local government

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (44-45) ◽  
pp. 147-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Bruegel ◽  
Hilda Kean
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Hierarchical Management ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the tensions in the relationship between munici pal feminism, the urban left and the trade union movement and identi fies the period from 1983 to 1987 as the 'moment of municipal femin. ism'. It argues that since that period the concept of equal opportunities has narrowed considerably. It shows that inequalities between women working for local authorities have widened appreciably, even though the rhetoric of local authority management increasingly echoes municipal feminist critiques of hierarchical management

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