RP 667

Labor Relation Data Set

Labor Relation Data Set covers two primary elements in industrial relations which include collective bargaining and trade unions. Therefore Labor relation data gives data on collective bargaining coverage and trade union density. It is the data compiled monthly by the National Labor Organization and availed in the Industrial Relation Data (Visser, 2015). At the local or National level, Labor relation data set include all the collective agreements made between the business and the workers as well as the sector of personal labor services like nurses, teachers, police, university staff with least 500 members.

Some of the data or attributed information in the labor relation data include the duration of the agreement or contract, wage increase experience every year since the beginning of the contract, for instance, the wage or salary increase after the first year, the second year, the third year and so on of the contract. The data also include the allowances provided to the workers like cost of living allowance, health allowance, education allowance and housing allowance (Abowd & Kramarz, 1999). Moreover, the data should also provide the number of working hours per week, pension plan contributed by the employer, standby pay as well as shift differentials like supplement on the first and second shifts. The data also includes the number of vacations and holidays specifying the number of both unpaid and paid vacation days. The kind of employer’s help when the employee undergoes long term disability must also be included (Visser, Hayter & Gammarano, 2015). It also consists of the employer’s contribution to the dental plan of the employee. Sometimes, the contract needs the employee to contribute towards bereavement. It must also be specified in the data. The data should also give the entire contribution of the employer towards the worker’s health plan (Visser, 2015). Therefore, Labor relation data helps in storing contract agreement between the employee and his worker(s). 

Reference

Abowd, J. M., & Kramarz, F. (1999). The analysis of labor markets using matched employer-employee data. Handbook of labor economics, 3, 2629-2710.

Visser, J., Hayter, S., & Gammarano, R. (2015). Trends in Collective Bargaining Coverage: Stability, Erosion Or Decline?: Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining. ILO.

Visser, J. (2015). Data Base on Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts, 1960-2014 (ICTWSS). Institute for Advanced Labour Studies AIAS.