Labor school training courses in Columbus, OH (public, in-house or online)

This course explores the changing civil service system within the rich, varied and pluralistic public service of today. Course topics will include recruiting, staffing, employee retention, performance management, compensation, benefits, and promotion. Labor relations, with and without a collective bargaining agreement will be studied. Students will study the resolution of disagreements using alternative dispute resolution systems designed to advance the public purpose.
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This seven-week course addresses critical concepts involved with employee and labor relations. Concepts addressed include, but are not limited to legal and regulatory factors affecting employee rights and discipline, performance management, legal and regulatory factors affecting employee and labor relations, unfair labor practices, collective bargaining practices, grievance management.

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This course surveys the major areas of the law as it applies to workers and unions. It focuses on unions’ right to organize and the ground rules for collective bargaining and strikes. Students will concentrate on major provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, examining how the NLRB and the Federal Courts have interpreted the national labor laws.

Provides an overview of labor relations including its history, law,challenges and opportunities. Exhibits the collective bargaining process with an emphasis on establishing a bargaining unit, unfair labor practices and negotiating an agreement. Analyzes the cost of labor contracts from the perspectives of wages and salaries, employee benefits, and job security and seniority. Demonstrates the labor relations process in action by discussing implementation of the collective bargaining agreement, gr...

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Covers contemporary issues surrounding employer/employee relations in public sector organizations. Topics include images of public service, work life in organizations, staffing, training and development, merit systems, labor relations, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action and job evaluation. Particular attention is given to developments in public service employees collective bargaining legislation, improved employee participation programs, and strategies and techniques used in con...

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