EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Employee Relations

Employee Relations

Introduction

The employees play a central role in achieving any goal another organizational factor that supports the active participation of stakeholder's human resources. Indeed, all the exercises to identify stakeholders indicates that employees are one of the four key stakeholders other the shareholders, customers and communities. An employee relation reveals the relationship that is present among employees and employers and a way in which they work collaboratively in order to ensure the level of working conditions (Australia's Fair Work system, 2010) . An employee relation also entails the obligations which the employer has for its employees and vice versa. This essay focuses on the relationship of employees in the context of Australia.

Discussion

Although Australia is naturally identified with the country of Anglo-Saxon culture as the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and New Zealand as an example of liberal social protection and labor law, the country s is always boasted of owning an original system of labor regulation which is very different from that which exists in North America and the United Kingdom. From the beginning, Australia has been marked by a strong commitment of the state in the economy, the labor movement and social regulation influential and innovative business. This has led to early advances in wages and limiting the duration of the work. In the early 20th century, Australia was regarded as the "workers' paradise", with weekly or annual periods working well with most European countries and North America.

Australian Law on Labor Relations

The legal framework governing labor relations in Australia is the Workplace Relations Act 1996; Federal Law, that came into force on 1 January 1997 and 27 March 2006 as amended by the Workplace Relations Amendment Act 2005, also known as Work Choices. Employee favors this code of conventions collective labor (a certified agreements or wards) of the federal system that provides the framework governing the minimum conditions for employment (The Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard) (Australian Federal Government, 1996) . The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (The Australian Industrial Relations Commission - AIRC), in turn, determines a twenty key themes federal collective agreements labor, such as:

Classification of employees

Working hours

Remuneration and payment

Bonuses and premiums

Different types of absences and holidays

Annual leave & holidays

Procedures in case of dispute or unfair dismissal.

Today, the Australian labor law favors flexibility, flexibility, ease of hiring and firing. Legal protection of employment is sometimes minimal, despite a strong union activity. The main focus of employee relation is to gain maximum working relationship among the management of an organization and employees. In the long run, this relation will in turn serve as a path for maximum productivity and higher competitiveness in organization.

The State Should Take No Part in Employment Relations, leaving it entirely up To Employers and Their Employees

The main role of the state is to safe guard the rights of all the citizens of the country. If a person becomes an employee that does not exclude him to attaining his rights as a civilian, and it is the duty of the government to ...