Gylian practices

The expression "Gylian practices" (French: Pratiques gyliennes) is used in Tyran to refer to irregular or restrictive practices in workers' interests. The term is associated with Gylias due to its strong labour movement and market socialist economy.

History

The expression emerged after Gylian independence, and was increasingly used starting in the 1980s.

Usage of the expression spread partly through Delkoran and Acrean influence, both through political rhetoric and economic publications. One analyst commented that the phrase acknowledges Gylias' position at "the extreme end of the labour rights spectrum in Tyran."

Types

Gylias' economy is based on workers' self-management and has one of the highest unionisation rates and lowest average working hours per year in Tyran, thus furthering the association between Gylias and worker-friendly irregular practices.

Many "Gylian practices" have emerged as implied elements of work, particularly in industries like printing or shipyards, and then spread to become the norm elsewhere. Main types include:

• Allowing workers to go home before the end of their shift if they have completed their scheduled work.
• Negotiable paid overtime within normal working hours after completing scheduled work, regardless of remaining working hours.
• Automatic overtime pay if production reaches a certain level regardless of remaining working hours.
• No overlap between functions in the same workplace.
• Overtime pay to cover absence of colleagues.

Implications

The Economic Journal described "Gylian practices" as the labour manifestation of gehenta.

Delkoran economist Greta Birk writes that "it's impossible to discuss 'Gylian practices' without discussing the most important element: the Institute for the Protection of Leisure." The IPL's work in harnessing automation specifically to reduce working hours has played a great role in the development of "Gylian practices", as has the cooperativisation of the economy, resulting in the norm of profits being distributed to workers as social dividends.

Foreign perception

The expression has been used both in pejorative and positive senses. On the political spectrum, pejorative use of the phrase generally occurs on the right-wing, and positive use of the phrase generally occurs on the left-wing.

It has contributed to a stereotype of Gylians as "lazy" and "slackers".

Some national trade union centres, particularly in the Common Sphere, hold a positive opinon of "Gylian practices" and have mounted industrial action to win similar arrangements, including the Akashian Sōhyō and Delkoran LO.

In Syara, the National Labour Alliance (Национална алијанса за труд, Nacionalna alijansa za trud) has cited Gylian practices as inspiration for proposed reforms to Syaran labour laws.