The Approach to Seasonal Employment in the Nordic Countries

The Approach to Seasonal Employment in the Nordic Countries
Author: Patrick Grady
Publisher: [Hull, Quebec] : Applied Research Branch, Human Resources Development Canada
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This brochure summarizes recent progress made by Canada & the United States under the 1991 Air Quality Agreement and highlights key issues from the 2002 Canada-US Air Quality Agreement Progress Report. It reviews the Agreement and its benefits, the key commitments made to reduce acid rain & ozone, the achievements in emissions reduction, and accomplishments of domestic emissions reduction & monitoring programs. It also summarizes other air quality programs including those related to particulate matter, transboundary air quality, emissions inventories & mapping, and research on the effects of air pollution.

Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries

Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries
Author: Andreas Walmsley
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030478130

Viewed through a politico-economic lens, Nordic countries share what is often referred to as the ‘Nordic model’, characterised by a comprehensive welfare state; higher spending on childcare; more equitable income distribution; and lifelong-learning policies. This edited collection considers these contexts to explore the complex nature of tourism employment, thereby providing insights into the dynamic nature, characteristics, and meaning of work in tourism. Contributors combine explorations of the impact of policy on tourism employment with a more traditional human resources management approach focusing on employment issues from an organizational perspective, such as job satisfaction, training, and retention. The text points to opportunities as well as challenges relating to issues such as the notion of ‘decent work’, the role and contribution of migrant workers, and more broadly, the varying policy objectives embedded within the Nordic welfare model. Offering a detailed, multi-faceted analysis of tourism employment, this book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners interested in tourism employment in the region.

Connecting People with Jobs Activation Policies in the United Kingdom

Connecting People with Jobs Activation Policies in the United Kingdom
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9264217185

This report examines recent activation policies in the United Kingdom aimed at moving people back into work. It offers insight into how countries can improve the effectiveness of their employment services and also control spending on benefits.

Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era

Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era
Author: Joanna Howe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509906290

In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration; however, it has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims to fill that void. Complex regulatory challenges arise from temporary labour migration. This collection examines these challenges and the extent to which temporary labour migration programmes can be ethical, equitable and efficacious and so deliver decent work for workers. Whilst the tendency for migration law to divide labour law's worker-protective mission has been observed before, the authors of the chapters comprising this collection seek not only to interrogate why and how this is so, but to go further in examining the implications and effects of a wide range of regulatory mechanisms on temporary labour migration.

A Hospitable World?

A Hospitable World?
Author: David Jordhus-Lier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317751752

The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets, accommodating and entertaining tourists and business travelers from around the world. This book explores the organisation of work, worker identities and worker strategies in hotel workplaces, as they are located in heterogeneous labour markets being changed by processes of globalisation. It uses an explicitly geographical approach to understand how different groups of workers experience and respond to challenges in the hospitality industry, and is based on recent theoretical debates and empirical research on hotel workplaces in cities as different as Oslo, Goa, London, Las Vegas and Toronto. A multi-scalar analysis is taken where concrete worker bodies and their physical, emotional and embodied labour are seen in relation to, among other aspects: the regulation of national and regional labour markets, city governments with global city ambitions, and global corporate actors and labour migration patterns. The book sheds light on the hotel workplace as a hierarchical and fragmented social space as well as addressing questions on worker mobility, the fragmentation of work, scales of organisation and how workers can help shape the regulation of their industry. This timely volume brings together contributions from international academics and is valuable reading for all those interested in hospitality, tourism, human geography and globalisation.

Labour migrants from Central and Eastern Europe in the Nordic countries

Labour migrants from Central and Eastern Europe in the Nordic countries
Author: Jon Horgen Friberg
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9289326247

This report presents the results from a project that has aimed to generate new comparative knowledge about labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe to the Nordic countries, the factors that shape wage and working conditions for labour migrants and recruitment processes and practices. In the report we: • Describe and compare patterns of labour migration between Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries. • Compare the working conditions of Polish labour migrants in in Oslo, Copenhagen and Reykjavik – and analyse how their labour market situation is shaped by variations in national regulations, systems of collective bargaining and local labour market structures. • Analyse the particular role of recruitment agencies in introducing new migrants to the Nordic labour markets. The research has been conducted by a team of researchers from Fafo (Norway), FAOS (Denmark), CIRRA/MIRRA (Iceland), CMR (Poland) and SOFI (Sweden).

Mobility of Labour from New EU States to the Nordic Region

Mobility of Labour from New EU States to the Nordic Region
Author: Jon Erik Dølvik
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2008
Genre: Labor mobility
ISBN: 9289316888

This report sums up the developments in labour migration from the member countries to the Nordic Region since EU enlargement in 2004, the consequences for the labour markets in both the Nordic Region and in the countries of origin, the main features of the political initiatives and adaptation strategies adopted by the Nordic countries, and the most important challenges that the Nordic countries will face in this area in the future. The report points out that Western Europe and the Nordic Region have experienced significant and increasing mobility of labour from the new member countries since 1 May 2004. It concludes that greater mobility, particularly from Poland and the Baltic countries, has been a contributory factor to higher growth and lower inflation in the Nordic countries than would otherwise have been possible in a period of prolonged economic prosperity and increasing labour shortages. It also states that the challenges in the Nordic countries have primarily been associated with the growth in in-service mobility and postings away from home. In addition, the report confirms quite significant emigration of workers from Poland and the Baltic countries since 2004, which has led to shortages of labour in those countries. It concludes that even though employment levels have risen significantly, especially in the Baltic countries, the main challenge for these countries will continue to be how to further increase domestic employment levels. This report constitutes the final product of the expert group on EU expansion set up by EK-A in 2004, the mandate for which expired on 1 December 2007.

Nordic Social Pedagogical Approach to Early Years

Nordic Social Pedagogical Approach to Early Years
Author: Charlotte Ringsmose
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319425579

This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care. It does so by investigating the distinctive elements of the Nordic approach and tradition. The cultural, educational, and ideological structures and values within the Nordic tradition indicate a strong “social pedagogical” rather than “early education” emphasis. The Nordic tradition applies a social learning approach that emphasizes play, relationships and outdoor life, and presumes that learning takes place through children’s participation in social interaction and processes. Set against this background, the book examines the characteristics of the pedagogue and the important features that develop through the Nordic approach. It compares children educated in the Nordic tradition with those educated in the French-English and Anglo-American tradition. It explores quality in relation to how children can enjoy childhood, and at the same time become able to actively participate in society and develop the social and cognitive skills and competences that individuals require to do well in society.

Global Harmonization of Methodological Approaches to Nutrient Intake Recommendations

Global Harmonization of Methodological Approaches to Nutrient Intake Recommendations
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2018-07-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309472008

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a public workshop in September 2017 to explore the evidence for achieving global harmonization of methodological approaches to establishing nutrient intake recommendations. Participants reviewed current nutrient intake recommendations, discussed the feasibility of harmonizing approaches to setting such recommendations globally, examined the development of principles by which they may be applied in diverse contexts that relate to individuals or populations, or regulatory purposes, and examined perceptions and acceptance of nutrient intake recommendations by different stakeholders. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.