capacité de payer
- Domaines
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- travail relations professionnelles
- travail rémunération du travail
- Date
Définition :
Possibilité pour une entreprise d'accorder en tout ou en partie les réclamations des syndicats en matière de salaire et autres conditions de travail sans mettre en danger son existence ou affaiblir sa position de concurrence sur les marchés.
Note :
C'est un des facteurs qui jouent un rôle important dans les négociations collectives. Il est presque toujours un élément sous-entendu dans la fixation des taux de salaires, lorsque l'employeur soutient qu'il ne peut faire face au fardeau de l'augmentation réclamée. L'étude exhaustive de la capacité ou de l'incapacité de payer soulève des problèmes extrêmement complexes qui peuvent aller de l'étude des bilans des entreprises jusqu'à celle de l'état des marchés internationaux.
Terme :
- capacité de payer n. f.
Traductions
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anglais
Date :Définition
A factor generally considered in labor-management negotiations.
A wage theory that holds that the wage level should be based on a company's ability to pay. Under this theory, wage levels should increase as profits increase. Those who support this theory rarely recommend the converse, lowering wages as profits decline.Note :
It is almost always an "implied" item to be kept in mind. Occasionally it becomes a major "overt" criterion in wage determination. It has received widespread public consideration where the employer has claimed that he is unable to bear the brunt of the wage increase requested by the union. The detailed consideration of a company's financial ability or inability leads to a maze of complexities. For example, would a company's cash or profit picture permit an increase if it had not "expanded" or developed or purchased new equipment the previous year? Has it invested for the purpose of showing a limited ability to absorb a large wage increase? Does the company's ability to pay depend on future developments which it is difficult to assess at the time negotiations are taking place? What constitutes a company's ability to pay may be a highly controversial issue. For example, does a company's other expansion, which results in a poor liquid showing an high interest payment, show that it is unable to pay? An examination of union briefs on this point indicates that many issues have been raised which touch on the methods of company accounting and go much beyond the mere existence of a cash surplus out of which a wage increase may be met. The ability-to-pay argument has been used by both labor and management to support a specific position in specific negotiations. Invariably the financial position of a company cannot help but be in the background of any wage negotiation. ((...)).
Terme :
- ability to pay