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132 Int'l Lab. Rev. 469 (1993)
Labour Relations in the Public Service: A Comparative Overview

handle is hein.journals/intlr132 and id is 483 raw text is: International Labour Review, Vol. 132, 1993, No. 4 Labour relations in the public service: A comparative overview Edward YEMIN * Introduction T he question of how to regulate public service labour relations is on the political agenda in a number of countries across the world. Governments are considering how to resolve a series of difficult questions in this sphere, often in discussion with organizations of public service employees, in countries including Chile, Costa Rica, Korea, Malaysia, Paraguay, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Over the years the ILO has done a considerable amount of comparative research on the main characteristics and trends in public service labour relations both in different groups of countries and worldwide. The earlier studies formed the basis for the adoption of the principal ILO standards on the subject, the Public Service (Labour Relations) Convention (No. 151) and Recommendation (No. 159), adopted by the International Labour Conference by a large consensus in 1978. In view of the renewal of interest in developing or reforming the law in this respect, this article seeks to analyse the main issues concerned, consider the options facing governments, describe the principles enunciated by the ILO on some of these issues and review the patterns that emerge in different countries. Most examples come from industrialized countries where public service labour relations are most developed, although mention will also be made of experience in less industrialized countries. • Chief, Labour Law and Labour Relations Branch, International Labour Office. For recent comparative surveys of industrial relations in the public sector, see ILO: Freedom of association and procedures for determining conditions of employment in the public service, International Labour Conference, 63rd Session (1977), (Geneva, ILO, 1976); T. Treu et al.: Public service labour relations: Recent trends and future prospects (Geneva, ILO, 1987); M. Ozaki: Labour relations in the public service: 1. Methods of determining employment conditions, in International Labour Review, 1987, No. 3, pp. 277-299; and Labour relations in the public service: 2. Labour disputes and their settlement, in International Labour Review, 1987, No. 4, pp. 405-422; M. Ozaki et al.: Labour relations in the public service: Developing countries (Geneva, ILO, 1988); ILO: World Labour Report 1989, (Geneva), Ch. 5; W. van Ginneken (ed.): Government and its employers: Case studies of developing countries (Aldershot, Avebury, 1991); M. Ozaki: Labour relations in the public service, in R. Blanpain (ed.): Comparative labour law and industrial relations in industrialized market economies, 5th ed., Deventer & Boston, Kluwer (forthcoming). Copyright © International Labour Organization 1993

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