Labour relations

The new act removed to encourage collective agreements, secondary bargaining power, to abolish compulsory arbitration and to disappear the historical perception between public and private sector employment relationship (Rasmussen, 2009). The government created legal decision making body like the Labour Court to hear personal complaints and dispute between employee, unions and employer in 1987 to 1991. The Industrial Relation Act was replaced with voluntary arbitration means that unions and employers able to settle issues with minimum involvement of the court or third parties (Deeks, 1990). The new act required “registered unions have a minimum of 1000 members to process arbitrary award system”. Overall the new ideology and labour law is being led by Prime Minister David Lange for four years only. During that period the act was amended over the period 1987 to 1990. The government has also tried to reform employment relation by enterprise and industry bargaining, in order to protect the national award system and freeing labour market. This period the Labour Government showed a slight Socialist and Neo--Liberal ideology means to show the power of the state try to achieve a fair and more equal society in terms of mixed economy between government and private enterprises. At the same time more of a neo¬liberal policy and…

1926- Railway Labor Act Term Paper The Railway Labour Act (1926) has been represented under the regulations set for the government unions. There have been efforts which are between the rail road management with the unions in order to reduce the transportation strikes. This leads to the railroad employees in order to organise and bargain the collective representatives. In 1936, the airlines and the employees have been also added to this. The industries cover the act where the experts believe…

A critical review of Troy Sarina and Russell D. Lansbury’s article, “Flying high and low? Strategic choice and employment relations in Qantas and Jetstar.” Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources (2013) 51, pp.437–453. Examining Sarina and Lansbury’s (2013) article on the two airline Qantas and Jetstar, it is seen that the conducted study concerns the strategic choices that the airlines adopted in relation to the changing factors that affected the aviation industry. This research aims to…

formally employed. The unique class interests of informally employed workers were ignored by the CPM leaders. So the informal sector workers i.e. the class conscious proletariats must transform themselves into a revolutionary class-for-itself so that it can eventually seize political power from the bourgeoisie. This book forces the readers to ponder over the state-labour relations as state is nothing but means of projecting the class interest of the bourgeoisie. The informal sector workers can…

LABOUR RELATIONS Labour union represents the collective interests of the employers over wages, working hours, benefits, and working conditions. It is an organization formed to protect the rights and interests of its members (Investopedia, 2015). Labour union is an organization formed by the workers for the common interest of its members from their related fields of work. These organizations helped their workers on the issues of wages, working conditions, working hours, and other benefits (The…

Can and should Australian employment relations legislation contribute to workplace productivity and performance? Workplace productivity and performance can be both classified at the micro-level of the organisation and the macro-level of national economic performance. Productivity is the quantity of output per unit of input, specifically, labour productivity is measured by output per hour worked (Peetz 2012, p.269). Performance can be assessed in terms of efficiency and equity; efficiency is…

The main connection between cultural diversity and workforce diversity is the diverse variety of culture values, religion, sex and nationality. It increased interpersonal skills and team work. Through diversity manager can able to create positive environment in an organization. (Diller, 2014) Q-6 Meaning of labour relations and why it would be of importance to Padi Cepat? Labour relations is the study and practice of managing employee’s situation in an organization. It helps to…

busting sophisticated strategies citing a case in Labour Department in California. With the perception that the department is mandated to implement labour and wage regulations to protect the rights of the employees, an official named Richard Sawyer loses his job. The Republican politicians together with the employers make an attempt to ban one of the most active and well established union campaign group referred to as Justice for Janitors (Bacon, 1996). With regard to section 8 (a) (2), such an…

is given to the cause. Although not all members of unions will choose to participate in the strike and will then decide to work. These workers are usually called scabs. Workers who are referred to as scabs on the day of the strike are usually victimized by those who do strike. Strikes can be either illegal or legal. Those employees who engage in illegal strikes cannot be protected by the Labour Relations Act. Examples of illegal strikes include employees blocking the entrance from employers…

find prosecutions and penalties as one of the most important concerns raised in the report as the issue is that currently we do not have any credible threat of prosecutions for violations of the Labour Relations Act, they are rare and many cases get dismissed or accommodated (C.M. Mitchell., J.C. Murray, pg. 107, 110). This is proven as from the years of 2004-2014 the OLRB had thousands of unfair labour practice complaints filed, but from 10 years only 29 applications were given consent to…