Industrial relations involves the complex relationships between employees, employers, and the government. Good industrial relations require cooperation between labor and management to enable industrial progress. Human resources departments help manage industrial relations by advising managers, conducting negotiations, and resolving issues. Key parties in industrial relations include employees, employers, trade unions that support employee rights and bargaining, and employee associations that support workers. Various laws also define employee rights and approaches to industrial relations.
2. IntroductIon to IndustrIal relatIons
Industrial relations has become one of
the most delicate and complex
problems of modern industrial society.
Industrial progress is impossible
without cooperation of labors and
harmonious relationships. Therefore, it
is in the interest of all to create and
maintain good relations between
employees and employers
management.
EXAMPLE:- AN INDUSTRIAL RELATION
AND JOIN CONSULTATION
BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AT THE
WORK PLACE.
3. Human resources
HR departments manage
industrial relations in many
firms.
•To keep abreast of industrial law legislation
and precedents and to advise managers
about their responsibilities
•To conduct or assist their local negotiations
within the plant, or similarly to act as the
employer's representative in national
negotiations.
•To correct the situations which go wrong.
4. Features oF IndustrIal realtIon
• OUTCOME
• INCLUDES
• COMPLEX MULTI DIMENSIONS
• PARTIES
• PURPOSES
6. trade unIons
Unions support employee rights and help them negotiate for
better pay and working conditions through collectively
bargaining.
Importance points:-
It is an association either of employers or employees or of
independent workers.
Employers’ association
eg., Employer’s Federation of India, Indian paper mill
association, etc.
General labor unions
Friendly societies
Unions of intellectual labor eg, All India Teachers Association
7. emPloyees assocIatIons
Such organisations support
employees in negotiations,
lobby governments on their
behalf and provide training
on issues such as health and
safety.
8. emPloyment law
•Indian’s employee rights
are defined in more than
40 laws
•The most important and
comprehensive is the
Employment Relations Act
1986