From Critical Practice to Response

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-36
Author(s):  
Howard A. Doughty
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Collective Agreement ◽  
Corrections Officers ◽  
Clerical Staff ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Professional Body

On October 16, 2017, over 12,000 faculty, librarians, and counsellors in 24 independent postsecondary colleges in Ontario, Canada went on strike for the fourth time since they organized in 1971 as members of the Civil Service Association of Ontario and won their first collective agreement the next year. Begun as an apolitical, self-consciously quasi-colonial, and decidedly elitist “professional” body in 1911, the CSAO has transformed itself in name and in nature into an increasingly class-conscious and intermittently militant Ontario Public Service Employees Union with current membership of approximately 180,000 including: clerical staff; community and social service workers; corrections officers; healthcare, transportation, and natural resource workers; as well as college academic and support staff employees. Relations with their employers have become increasingly adversarial and rarely greater than in the college sector. This paper explores this strike.

scholarly journals Advantages and disadvantages of social protection of public service employees

Social Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
V. Gavriluk
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Activities

The article deals with the social protection of public service workers. The aim is to find out advantages and disadvantages of modern legal regulation of social protection of public service workers. Revealed that the social protection of public service workers varies depending on the category of such employees and the direction of public service activities. The paper highlighted the need for improved social protection for public service employees by creating common and uniform rules of law on the principles and criteria for providing such protection. Discussed in the article advantages and disadvantages of the current state of social protection of public service workers can be used as the basis of strategy to improve the work of legislative and executive power in Ukraine.

scholarly journals Rozwój przedsiębiorczości urzędów samorządowych w procesie kształtowania praktyk antykorupcyjnych

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 280-293
Author(s):  
Barbara Pytko
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Iso 9001 ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Service Employees ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Procedure Code ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
And Training

The intensified development of Polish Public Local Administration shows a deficiency in monitoring public service ethics. Many offices fail to find a link between the development of entrepreneurial skills and good ethics, a situation which can lead to corruption and malpractice.Local administration offices have ambitious plans and adapt new methods to assess their activity. From unproductive bureaucratic structures, new more modern organizations are appearing. Clearly, this fact is optimistic.From time to time cases of public service employees’ corruption occur. These often take place in offices with ISO 9001 standard implemented certified quality management system.In the paper presented above a review of principles has been conducted in order to show how public service workers should behave in their administrative practice.Pioneering practices such as: ethical procedure, code accreditation, ethical objectives, ethical auditing, anticorruption systems and training courses have also been indicated.The above mentioned practices are presently in the process of being introduced.

The mistreatment of public service workers: identifying key risk and protective factors

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Plimmer ◽  
Sarah Proctor-Thomson ◽  
Noelle Donnelly ◽  
Dalice Sim
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Risk And Protective Factors ◽  
Service Workers

scholarly journals THE THORNY ISSUE OF STATUS DISCLOSURE TO CHILDREN LIVING WITH HIV: THE CASE OF HIV POSITIVE CHILDREN LIVING IN A CHILD AND YOUTH CARE FACILITY IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Nkosiyazi Dube ◽  
Linda Harms Smith
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Hiv Status ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Child And Youth Care ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Status Disclosure ◽  
Hiv Aids

There is a dilemma regarding HIV/AIDS disclosure to children born and living with HIV/AIDS in residential settings. Since the advent and accessibility of Anti-Retroviral Therapy, most children born HIV positive live longer and have healthier lives. Some of these children find themselves in Need of Care due to abandonment, orphanhood and neglect or abuse, and are placed in alternative care such as a Child and Youth Care Centre (CYCC). Social Service Workers are then faced with this dilemma around disclosure of their HIV status, due to the complexities around the consequences of such a disclosure, and the absence of clear policies in this regard. The study explored the perceptions of social service workers regarding disclosure of HIV status to children born HIV positive living in a CYCC in Ekurhuleni, South Africa. The findings indicate that HIV status disclosure is a complex but essential process as it reinforces children’s ability to adhere to medication and dispels anxiety and suspicion within themselves around their status. Recommendations relate to community education and awareness programmes, policy and practice changes and makes suggestions for future research.

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