Labor Toolkit

Labor Reform and Related Social Issues

This module is the seventh of eight modules comprising the Port Reform Toolkit. The Toolkit is designed to help government officials and private interests alike navigate the process of port reform to achieve more modern, efficient, and financially viable seaports and related intermodal facilities and services.

The labor reform module deals with some of the most critical elements of port reform: the many labor related issues associated with port ownership and operations. It is designed to help government decision makers identify the key forces affecting port labor today, understand the need for reform in a competitive environment, evaluate alternative ways of approaching labor reform, and pursue reform in a way that maximizes efficiency and minimizes labor dislocation and risks to potential port investors and operators.

CONTENTS

MODULE 7
Labor Reform and Related Social Issues

Context for Labor Reform

Key Labor Issues

Labor Involvement in Port Reform

Organizing to Address Labor Reform: A Task Force Approach

The Institutional Framework for Labor Reform

Redefining the Concept of Social Equity

Meeting Commercial Needs

Fostering Competition

Government’s Role

Time Frame for Port Labor Reform

Developing the Workforce Rationalization Plan

Alternatives to Dismissals

Elements of a Staff Retrenchment Program

Pitfalls in Designing and Implementing Severance Packages

Rationalizing the Workforce: When and By Whom?

Prereform Rationalization

Postreform Rationalization

Who Should Pay for the Expenses of Port Labor Rationalization?

International Support for Labor Adjustment

Postreform Labor Management Relations

Annex I. World Bank Labor Adjustment Projects

Annex II. List of Organizations That Have Obtained and Renewed an International Labour Organization Portworker Development Program License

Boxes

Box 1: Changes in Economic Policies: Impact on Port Labor

Box 2: Trends in Gang Strength, 1970s and 1980s

Box 3: Labor Competition in India and Brazil

Box 4: Factors Prompting Port Labor Reform

Box 5: Port Labor Reform in the European Union

Box 6: Possible Effects of Reform on Employment

Box 7: Working with Labor Unions: The Ghana Case

Box 8: Sample Reference Clauses in a Concession Agreement on Employee Transfer

Box 9: The Productivity Commission of Australia

Box 10: Institutional Framework for Labor Reform Key Findings

Box 11: Job Security in Ports

Box 12: Social Plans at Moulinex

Box 13: Port Staffing Benchmarks

Box 14: A Downsizing Decision Tree

Annex I: World Bank Labor Adjustment Projects

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Annex II: List Of Organizations That Have Obtained and Renewed an International Labour Organization Portworker Development Program License

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Alternative Port Management Structures and Ownership Models

Legal Tools for Port Reform

Financial Implications of Port Reform

Port Regulation:
Overseeing the Economic Public Interest in Ports

Labor Reform and Related Social Issues

Context for Labor Reform

Key Labor Issues

Labor Involvement in Port Reform

Organizing to Address Labor Reform: A Task Force Approach

The Institutional Framework for Labor Reform

Developing the Workforce Rationalization Plan

International Support for Labor Adjustment

Postreform Labor Management Relations

Annex I and II

Implementing Port Reform

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