Industrial relations and conflict

Question 1

What is industrial relations?

Answer 1

Refers to the relationship between a employer and employee

Question 2

Causes of industrial conflict

Answer 2

Conflict over pay or working conditions
Conflict over redundancies or dismissals
Conflict of discrimination
Demarcation: disagreement about who does what job

Question 3

Pay claims

Answer 3

Productivity claims
Comparility claims
Cost of living claims
Relativity claims

Question 4

Productivity claims

Answer 4

This is when workers workload has increased and their pay hasn’t

Question 5

Comparility claims

Answer 5

Employees doing similar work get a pay increase and they also want a pay increase

Question 6

Relativity claim

Answer 6

When the pay of one group of workers is linked to the pay of another group of receives a pay increase and the other group wants a pay increase to maintain the pay gap

Question 7

Cost of living claims

Answer 7

When inflation goes up , workers want their pay to go up to keep up with inflation.