Country Wage Collective Wage

Fixation Bargaining Differentials Miscellaneous

-Wage -Plant (preferred) -Wide -Fringe Benefits
Councils quite high
- National quite -Coal Miners are
-Wage Boards popular highest paid -Time Work Study
(Agriculture) & Job evaluation
U.K. - Cover host of - Narrow gender
-Legislations issues like pay, differentials -Moderate TU
for Minimum work hours movement
Wage -Militant
(1909,66,72) -Productivity movements to -Piece Rate:
Bargaining with reduce Manual
-No minimum govt. intervention differentials Time rate: Others
wage
-Local state -Enterprise Level - Every kind -Fringe benefits
laws around 40%
-All employees -Attempts to
-Fiscal than covered narrow down -Differentials in
monetary fringe benefits
-National Union v/s -Occupational
-Fair Single employers narrowed down -Job Evaluation
Standards Act,
U.S. 1939 -Experimentations
with pay packages
-Focus on
constitutional -Bonus & Piece rate
provisions for reward
purposes
-Further reduction
in 40 hrs./week

-No minimum -Industry & -Wide -Overtime 25%+

wage National normal rate, higher
-Gap smaller as for holidays
-Agreements -Legally compared to UK
Germany guaranteed -Strong T.U. only
-Social peace -Bound by 16 in number
-No govt. approval constitution to
but have to be reduce gender -Canteen, transport
reported differentials & subsidized
housing

-Profit sharing &

group bonus
 -Legislation of -Recent -Area -Maximum 40
1950 development Differentials hrs./week

-Adjusted -Plant Level -Have reduced -Overtime @

when cost of substantially regular rate and
living rises by -Several national voluntary
France 2% or more level agreements in -Gender
place differentials @ -Holidays 4 weeks +
-Revised 77% 8-10 public
Annually holidays

-Frequent
government
interventions
- Tribunals -Conciliation &
Arbitration
Australia -Comparative -Narrow
wage justice -National level &
highly centralized
-No formal -45 hrs./week
wage policy - Differentials
not so marked -3 weeks leave
-Little -Centralized
Holland government -Few women -7 public holidays
intervention -Initial govt. work
Intervention -Holiday bonus of
-Legal - No difference 6%
minimum -Other levels exist between manual -Very few disputes
wage, reviewed & non manual
annually workers by law -Fringe benefits
very important
-40 hrs/week

-Maximum
-Agreement of 1936 overtime of 48hrs/4
called Saltsjobaden weeks of 50
- No minimum -Narrow hrs/month
wage
Sweden -Model of industrial -4 weeks annual
peace & prosperity leave + 13 public
holidays

-Compulsory
medical & sickness
benefits
Japan