Employee Relations: Volume 15 Issue 2

Back to the Future: Lessons from Free Market Experience

Michael Riley

Describes the labour economics of the hotel and catering industry,which produce two characteristics: individual contracts and lowunionization. Draws parallels between the free…

The Limitations of the Law in Influencing Employment Practices in UK Hotels and Restaurants

Liz Price

Individual employment law has the dual aim of stimulating goodpersonnel practice and of providing minimum protection for vulnerableemployees, such as those found in the hotel and…

HIV/AIDS and Hotel and Catering Employment: Some Implications of Perceived Risk

Derek Adam‐Smith, David Goss

Addresses the workplace issues posed by HIV/AIDS within the hoteland catering industry. In particular, examines the theoretical riskswhich may be peculiar to organizations in this…

Ageism and the UK Hospitality Industry

Rosemary E. Lucas

In the context of a gradually ageing labour force and skillsshortages, discrimination against older workers has recently become anissue of public policy concern. Ageism is…

Power Relationships and Empowerment in Hotels

Jenny Wynne

Discusses the main approaches to power and power relationships anduses this discussion as the basis for analysing how power relationshipsevolve between employees at the lower…

Communications and Social Skills: Perceptions of Hospitality Managers

Mona Clark

Describes the outcome of a pilot study in which a number of hotelmanagers were interviewed at length in order to ascertain theirunderstanding of “communications and social…

Trade Unions in the Hotel and Catering Industry: The Views of Hotel Managers

Arsène H. Aslan, Roy C. Wood

Given the principal characteristics of hotel and catering industryemployment – low pay, low job security, high labour turnover,often arbitrary management – it is a matter of some…

Tourism Policy and Employment in The Gambia

Peter U.C. Dieke

Provides a policy basis for increasing tourism employmentadvantages for The Gambia. Emphasizes the need for co‐operation betweenthe Government of The Gambia and overseas private…