European History
The EU's response to the 2008 financial crisis.
Adopting extensive austerity measures?
As of this year, the vast majority of UK outsourcing contracts have been awarded to large public service industry multinational firms.
What is 2016?
Name two reasons why European countries outsource public goods to private companies.
Pressure of increasing public debt - saving public funds
Stricter spending constraints, shifting consumer preferences and the demand for higher value for money
Market-based production is better → the governance of private organisations is more transparent, flexible, efficiency focused and disciplined by owners
Austerity
According to the Innes article, public service industry ‘firms’ bear an uncanny resemblance to Soviet state-owned enterprises (SOEs)
TRUE
What were two effects of TUPE?
*Protect workers' jobs
*Maintain substantive provisions of workers' terms and conditions of employments intact despite a transfer of ownership
*Require that workers are notified and consulted about transfers
This country got the EU's biggest bailout during the era of spectacularly large bailouts.
What is Greece?
Number the ways...in which UK workers particularly benefit from TUPE?
What is: Protected workers’ wages and working conditions after the transfer - previously lacked strong protections from national legislative framework and market employment relations regime?
In October 2013, the UK Coalition government made it easier to outsource by giving public sector employees the right to retain access to this benefit.
What is a pension?
In the last 10 years, more than a quarter of public-private partnerships have failed.
FALSE
In what year did Denmark pass the major structural reform that unintentionally caused the increase of employees’ workload?
2007
The acronym PIGS stands for...
Portugal
Ireland
Greece
Spain
This momentous year saw the first privately managed prison open in the United Kingdom
What is 1992?
Is the US Postal Service privately owned?
No. The USPS is an agency of the executive branch.
The US is the only country that allows private companies to run prisons.
FALSE.
The United States has a law that is the equivalent of TUPE.
This year saw the last ship carrying convicted persons from the UK arrive to Australia
1868