Dispute Resolution Flashcards
Define grievance procedure
Is a formal process where disputes can be addressed. It will outline what an employee must do to have their disputes resolved.
Define industrial action
The actions of the employees of a business to protest.
Eg- strike and go-slow employees.
Define strike
The employees remove themselves from the workplace for a period of time. Employees do this in order to receive the benefits they were after from their workplace.
Define lockout
The business refuses to allow employees to attend work. In order to stop industrial action.
Define picket time
Is a protest that takes place outside the workplace.
Define work-to-work
When employees only perform tasks that are specifically listed in their job description. They do not perform any other activities.
Define go-slow-employees
When employees adapt to a practice that limits and delays the performance of the business. Decrease in production productivity.
Define mediation
A formal method where a third party facilitates the conversation. The parties come to their own agreement.
Define arbitration
Where both parties put their case forward to an independent third party who then makes the final decision. Can be done by FWC
Define protected industrial action
Is the action taken that is approved by the fair work commission.
Requirements for the action to be approved:
-parties have tried to reach agreement
-employers have been given notice
Enterprise bargaining
Is the process of negotiation between the employer and the employees with the goal of creating an enterprise agreement.
