Labor Relations
Non-binding third party involvement, most widely used form.
What is Mediation?
An act to provide for the right of female workers to be granted maternity leave by their employers and to be paid maternity pay in some cases.
What is Maternity Leave Act?
An action in which unionized workers leave their jobs and refuse to return to work until certain demands are met by management.
What is Strike?
The first point of contact between an individual and the healthcare system is defined as:
What is Primary level health care?
A way of studying a system as one unit instead of its individual parts.
What is Systems theory?
Historically, unionization was formed as a result of.
What is the industrial revolution?
This Act relates to the protection of workers in relation to the payment of wages.
What is Minimum Wage Act?
Organize workers in different occupations in a firm including skilled and unskilled workers.
What is Industrial Unions?
The transfer of authority from central to local government is referred to as:
What is Decentralization?
A group of individual parts that work together to form a unified whole.
What is system?
Is the entire relationship between a union and the employee, including the administration of a collective agreement.
What is collective bargaining?
An act to eliminate discrimination between the sexes in the payment of remuneration for the doing of similar work.
What is Equal Pay (for Men and Women) Act?
Which political party formed the National Workers Union?
What is PNP?
The only human disease eradicated to date has been:
What is Smallpox?
Anything that enters a system (money, resources, materials, effort)
What is input?
A form of decision making in which two or more parties talk with one another in an effort to resolve their opposing interests.
What is Negotiation?
Covers the separation payment whenever an employee is being made redundant or terminated.
What is The Employment (Termination and Redundancy) Payments Act?
Union that represents nursing in Jamaica.
What is NAJ?
Lab testing is an example of what component of the healthcare delivery system?
What is Services?
Process that converts input into a final product or service.
What is Throughput?
Head disputes between unions and employers and render final and binding decisions.
What are arbitrators?
An Act to enable wage regulating authorities to make provision for holidays and holiday remuneration for workers.
What is The Holidays with Pay Act?
Physical therapists are represented by a union, nurses are represented by a separate union, and pharmacists have yet another union within a single agency.
What is Occupational unionism?
All members of the team dependent on each other. This term is commonly referred to as:
What is Interdependence?
Anything that pinpoints problems in a system before the output is complete.
What is Control?
Are allegations that the collective agreement or an employment statute has been violated, together with the remedy that is claimed to rectify the situation.
What are grievances?
Provides a legislative framework for recognition, industrial dispute resolution and statutory arbitration.
What is Labour Relations & Industrial Disputes Act?
Industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in a separate corporation.
What is Sympathy Strike?
Staff that administers healthcare delivery systems
What is Healthcare personnel?
Which part of systems theory is the process of monitoring outputs to determine whether or not the system is working?
What is Feedback loop?
Eliminating jobs for the purpose of improving efficiency and economic returns is referred to as?
What is Downsizing?
Confers on the Nursing Council of Jamaica the power to control the education and training and the practice of nurses, midwives and assistant nurses in Jamaica.
What is Nurses and Midwives Act?
The nurses carry signs with messages asking potential patients to seek care elsewhere. The nurses are participating in?
What is picketing?
The World Health Organization has how many member states from around the globe?
What is 192?
A specific, stated purpose
What is Mission or objective?