SOC-S 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Trade Union
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Women and minorities are more likely to be laid off. Gender , race segregation at work - non- core functions. Using policy that disadvantages employees of a specific sex or face group more than those in the majority group, and that is not job-related or consistent with business necessity. E. g. using height and weight for hiring requirements. Using alternative criteria that do not systematically hurt diversity, while achieving the business necessity. Decline of the union accounts for 20% -of the increase in men"s wage inequality, and 50% among blue-collar male workers. Powerful shareholders and top managers promoted permanent layoffs as a strategy to maximize the shareholder value --the firm"s stock price. Decline of union and increase in permanent layoffs (jung) Labor unions can create resistance to the shift from temporary to permanent layoffs. Study of layoffs announcements made by 679 large us companies from. Temporary layoffs persisted longer in sectors where the rate of union membership was high.
