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.
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
Time Frame for Port Labor Reform
Developing the Workforce Rationalization Plan
Elements of a Staff Retrenchment Program
Pitfalls in Designing and Implementing Severance Packages
Rationalizing the Workforce: When and By Whom?
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
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 12: Social Plans at Moulinex
Box 13: Port Staffing Benchmarks
Box 14: A Downsizing Decision Tree
Charts 1-14 as a WORD document