1.3 Industrial Relations Flashcards
What are industrial relations?
The quality of relations between managers and employees of an organisation
Benefits of good industrial relations?
- Employee motivation
- Lower absenteeism
- Increased productivity
- Higher retention rate
What are factors of industrial disputes?
- Pay
- Working conditions
- Discrimination
- Redundancy
- New technology
What types of pay claims are there?
- Cost of living
- Comparability (lidl vs tesco)
- Productivity
- Relative (nurses vs garda)
What are trade unions?
Organisations representing the views and interests of employees. Source of information and protection
What are the benefits of being a part of a trade union?
- Better pay and working conditions
- Job protection
- Pressure government
- Organised industrial action
- Representation and negotiation in disputes
What are shop stewards?
They are elected as representatives of trade unions to communicate with workers, recruit and inform
What are the non-legislative solutions to industrial dispute?
- negotiation (offer, counter-offer,
compromise) - conciliation (third party negotiation)
- arbitration (third party investigation)
What does the Industrial Relations Act 1990 determine?
- types of trade disputes
- secret ballots and one week notice ahead of
strike necessary - primary vs secondary picketing
- immunity from suing when striking
What are legal reasons for trade disputes under the IRA 1990?
- unfair dismissal
- failure to recognise TU
- discrimination
- pay / working conditions
What are illegal reasons for trade disputes under the IRA 1990?
-unsatisfied with running of business
- different political views
What are legal forms of industrial action?
- official strike
- work-to-rule
- overtime ban
- token stoppage
What are illegal forms of industrial action?
- lightening strike
- political strike
Impact of Industrial Action?
- no wage for employees
- lack of services for consumers
- damages public relations and profits fall for
investors - time and effort lost for employers
- sales/payments stop for suppliers
- less tax for government
Terms of Unfair Dismissals Act 1977-2015?
- steps to dismiss employee: counsel, formal
verbal warning, written warning, dismissal
and reasons sent within 14 days - fair dismissal grounds: incapable,
incompetent, qualifications, misconduct,
redundancies, terms contravene law - unfair dismissal grounds: member of TU,
politics, pregnancy, discrimination
