Contemporary Issues in

Human Resource
Management
Faculty of Business Management

Lecturer : Ashika U A
CHAPTER 6
Private Sector vs. Public Sector
In this chapter…
• Public sector HRM practices
• Recruitment and selection of employees
• Performance appraisal, rewarding, and firing of employees
• Private sector HRM practices
• Recruitment and selection of employees
• Performance appraisal, rewarding, and firing of employees
Enforcement of employment law and regulations
• Introduction to labour law
• Enforcement of labour law
Where are the best practices?
Recruitment in Public Sector
• Target group
• Procedural –
Criteria and
Selection
• Accountable and
Transparent
• Service Driven
• Channels and
Means
• Scrutiny
Appraisals, Rewarding and
Firing in Public Sector
• Objective
• Procedural
• Accountable and
Transparent
• Service Driven
• Systems
Recruitment in Private Sector
• Target group
• Talent Hunt
• Flexibility and
Network
• Revenue Driven
• Channels
Appraisals, Rewarding and
Firing in Private Sector
• Objective
• Creativity
• Unstructured
• Systems
Employment Act

• How enforcement is practiced

in private and public sector
• What does it tell you when Employment Act
had to be amended within 2 months of its
introduction catering it to Hospitality Industry?
 Basics
• Prohibition of forced
employment
• Non-discrimination
• Fairness
• Contravention of basic
principles
• Prohibition of employment of
minors
Act No: 2/2008_ Employment
Act
• Employment
Agreement
• Work Ethics and
Dismissals
• Working Hours
• Leave Entitlement
• Remuneration
Act No: 2/2008_ Employment
Act
• Foreigners in
Employment
• Employment Agency
• Training
• Work Place Safety
and Employee Health
• Labour Relations
Authority
• Employment Tribunal
Contract of Service
• Verbal and Written
• Limitations at work
• Notice period

• Chapter 4 of Employment Act: covers all the terms and

conditions of employment
Payment of Wages
• The period of payment of wages cannot extend to more than a
month and employers need to pay their employees no later
than the seventh day after the last day of payment period.
Minimum Wage
Normal hours of work
Leave
• one day
Weekly
Leave leave every
week

Public • listed
Holiday

• 30 days
Annual
Leave after 1
year

Sick
Leave • 30 days

FRL • 10 days
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