AOS 2B: Workplace Relations Flashcards
What is workplace relations?
Workplace relations is the relationship and communication shared between employees and their employer, especially in areas such as wages, employment, conditions and workplace disputes.
What is the goal with positive workplace relations?
- Employees are satisfied with wages and employment conditions
- Business can remain productive, competitive and profitable
- Disputes are minimized or resolve fairly
Who are the key participants?
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- Employees
- Human Resource Manager
- Unions
- employee Associations
- Fair Work Commission
Who are employees?
Employees are those who work for a business in exchange for money, they work towards the achievement of business objectives.
What are the roles of employees?
- Negotiation of new agreements
- Voting on new agreements
- Take industrial action if required
- They need to carry out their responsibilities
Who is the Fair Work Commission?
Fair Work Commission is Australia’s independent workplace relations tribunal.
What is the role of the Fair Work Commission?
- Providing a safety net of minimum wages of conditions for all employees
- Hearing unfair and unlawful dismissal
- Regulating and monitoring industrial action
- Hearing and investigating bullying and harassment claims
- Approve workplace agreements
- Assisting in resolving workplace disputes through mediation, conciliation and arbitration
Who is the Human Resource Manager?
Human Resource Manager is the one responsible for managing the relationships between the employees and the business.
What is the role of the Human Resource Manager?
- Represents the employer in negotiations of new wage agreements
- Participate in resolution of disputes
- Implement agreements, training managers and supervisors
- Liaise with employer associations, unions and fair work commission
What are unions?
Unions are organizations that represent and offer advice to employees with workplace relations issues.
What is the role of unions?
- Negotiation of new wage agreement
- Offer advice to employees
- Support and represent employees in disputes
- Organize industrial action (strikes)
What is employer association?
Employer associations are organizations that represent and offer advice to employer’s with workplace relation issues.
What is the role of employer associations?
- Negotiation new wage agreement
- Notifying and assisting employers with changes in legislation
- Advising or representing employers in workplace disputes
