Introduction and Main Findings
| ISBN 82-7422-190-7 | 1997 | 64 p | NOK 175,- |
Together with Jerico, the Gaza Strip was the first area of the Occupied Territories to be handed over to the Palestinian Authorities in June 1994. In 1996 the Gaza Strip was still very much in the process of structural and institutional change. New structures were in the making, and individuals and institutions were redefining their behaviour within new economic and political frameworks. The Fafo-survey of wage and working conditions in the Gaza Strip, presented in this report, focuses on a central aspect of this process: changes in the labour market and industrial relations. The survey, undertaken in December 1996, concentrates on the formal labour market and on relations and working conditions normally negotiated in collective agreements.
Preface
1 Introduction and Main Findings
1.1 The Survey
1.2 Main Findings
2 The Labour Market
2.1 Trends in the Demand for Labour
2.2 The Industrial Structure
2.3 The Israeli Labour Market
2.4 Workers in the Formal Labour Market.
3 Wage and Working Conditions
3.1 Private Sector Employment Relationship
3.2 Public Sector Employment Relationship
3.3 Wages and Remuneration
3.4 Hours of Work
3.5 Leave Provisions
3.6 Health and Safety
4 Private Enterprise
4.1 Recruitment and Redundancies
4.2 Obstacles to Expansion
5 Collective Bargaining
5.1 The Regional Setting
5.2 Room for Further Development of the Trade Union Movement
References
Appendix 1 Multiple Regression on Wage-level
