Question

Social security, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation are employee benefits required by law and are not negotiated. Based on the reading in this unit, identify and discuss the 5 groups of those benefits that are mandatory issues for negotiations. Provide an example of each.

Answer 1

Identify and discuss the 5 groups of those benefits that are mandatory issues for negotiations. Provide an example of each. Minimum response of two hundred words.

These are terms and conditions of employment that must be negotiated between management and unions.

Grievance and arbitration procedures which is a system that was created for collective bargaining relationships which gives the parties with a procedure for final and binding resolution of their disputes arising from either the interpretation, application, violation of the terms etc.

Contract length- The negotiating team arrives at a tentative agreement with management and the bargaining unit votes the contract terms either up or down

Seniority-with the seniority clause the employees are able to protect their job within work areas that involve promotions, transfers and layoffs. These clause is the most complicated and negotiable according to the type of work

Union security clauses- for the union security clause a labor organization often tries to protect its strength through this clause. For example in Hawaii management and labor are able to negotiate a contract that requires a worker hired must join the union within a short period of time.

Wages, Hours, and Fringe Benefits- The wages and hours clauses focus on the legal limitations, for example laws that concern minimum wages. Fringe benefits like vacation, holidays are limited only by the imagination of works