Labor Relations in the Public Sector

Kearney, Richard

doi:10.4324/9781420043556

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“…It was also hypothesized that collective bargaining is positively associated with ADA implementation. Collective bargaining provides an environment more conductive to employee concerns and a more favorable environment for implementation of policies that are favorable for employees (Kearney 2001;Methe and Perry 1980;Olson 1971).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in State Police and Highway Patrol Agencies: Results of a National Survey

Nored

Goodman

Thompson

2010

J Police Crim Psych

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This article provides an empirical analysis of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) implementation within the law enforcement profession. Specifically, the study reports results from a national survey of state police/ highway patrol agencies regarding practical implementation of the ADA. The data is analyzed in terms of population size and collective bargaining status. Results of this endeavor indicate that implementation of the ADA within law enforcement is difficult, especially as applied to the work of sworn personnel. These challenges are somewhat diminished when applied to non-sworn personnel such as dispatchers, administrators, and clerical personnel. The most substantial obstacles to implementation of the ADA within law enforcement is not associated with political officials or administrators. Instead, most arise from the lack of training and vague legislative language and regulatory standards. Smaller states and those without collective bargaining report lower levels of accommodation; however, there are few statistically significant differences in terms of population and collective bargaining.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in State Police and Highway Patrol Agencies: Results of a National Survey

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Goodman

Thompson

2010

J Police Crim Psych

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“…The political power of public sector unions will have a greater impact on fringe benefits than on wages if compensation in that form is less likely to be subjected to public scrutiny. Kearney and Carnevale (2001) also contend that public sector unions support increasing benefits over wages because the costs are less transparent to the community and can be spread out over time. Other scholars have also found that public sector unions have a larger impact on benefits than wages (Ichniowski, 1980;Zax, 1988).…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public-private comparisons can also prove challenging because of confounding factors, such as other workers' characteristics and wage dispersions. In addition, certain methodological shortcomings by researchers further complicate this debate including the values and political ideology of the researcher and either neglecting to include benefits as a dependent variable or difficulty in determining a dollar value of benefits in the analysis (Kearney, 2009). Ultimately, much of the public-private debate centers on elusive accounting and areas that are difficult to value, especially retirement benefits, retiree health care and job security.…”

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Comparing Public-Versus-Private Sector Pay and Benefits

Reilly

2013

Public Personnel Management

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The large unfunded liabilities surrounding public pensions in the United States will ensure the issue of comparable pay between the public and private sectors remains in the forefront of public policy debates. Disagreements on pay and total compensation comparison studies vary due to different approaches, methods and data. In an effort to add to the literature on comparative compensation, a public-versus-private sector compensation model was constructed to gauge the cost of lifetime compensation. This analysis considers three types of workers within two different occupations classifications: a private sector employee with a traditional 401(k) retirement package offering, a public sector employee who has a defined benefit plan with social security income, and a public sector worker with no social security income. The two sample occupations reviewed as part of this analysis focus on administrative assistants (bluecollar workers) and engineers (white-collar employees) to provide alternatives for evaluation purposes. For the two occupation scenarios analyzed, total compensation of public employees is higher than that of an average private sector employee. When the total compensation is based on years worked, the divide between the public and private sectors increases significantly. In light of this analysis, several important public policy issues are advanced.

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“…Unfortunately, information on the percentage of corrections employees that are unionized was unavailable for all 50 states during the period under study. As a proxy measure of potential political opposition to privatization, I include an indi-cator of the percentage of public employees that is unionized within a state (Kearney & Carnevale, 2001).…”

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The Politics and Administration of Privatization: Contracting Out for Corrections Management in the United States

Nicholson‐Crotty¹

2004

Policy Studies Journal

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Shrinking budgets and the emergence of "new public management" and other market-based reforms have put increasing pressure on many governments and government agencies to use contracting as a means of service delivery. This essay suggests that contracting should be viewed as a multistage affair, in which both political and administrative actors make key decisions at different stages of the process. It also hypothesizes that these actors weigh the political and instrumental motivations for contracting differently and, therefore, that the relative importance of these factors varies depending on the stage of the contracting process. An empirical analysis of corrections management contracts in the American states provides significant evidence for these assertions. 0162-895X

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Labor Relations in the Public Sector

Cited by 51 publications

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Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in State Police and Highway Patrol Agencies: Results of a National Survey

Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in State Police and Highway Patrol Agencies: Results of a National Survey

Comparing Public-Versus-Private Sector Pay and Benefits

The Politics and Administration of Privatization: Contracting Out for Corrections Management in the United States

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