Running head: EMPLOYEE AND LABOR RELATIONSEmployee and Labor RelationsName of the University:Name of the Student:Author Note:
1EMPLOYEE AND LABOR RELATIONSGlobalization has impacted the organizations significantly and in particular pressurehas arisen to manage and maintain the costs. The industries of Canada have chosen torespond to the requests of the employees by negotiating with new collective agreements oftwo tier wage systems. These means the organizations are arranging for various pay rates forthe current employees, which include wage cuts and bonuses as well. The employers areincreasing the number of the new part time employees. According to McQuarrie (2015), theemployers are restructuring the total workplace settings. This in turn, is affecting theworkplace to a certain level. For example, the number of part time employees are increasing,increased pressure on the management, the part time workers are asked to serve full time tothe organizations and others. Both certifications as well as collective agreements should have some flexibilitybecause of the workplace conditions, in order to allow the employees to become adaptable tothese changes. Successor ship legislation has ensured the fact that collective agreements andcertifications serves as the attempt of discouraging the employers from changing theirbusiness. Moreover, the decertification has allowed the employees to change the unionrepresentation. If the employees feel that the current union is not assisting them to protecttheir job interests, they have the power of removing the union representatives as well.Moreover, with globalization the technological changes have started addressing the collectiveagreements, which can affect the organizational structures as well as job content. The legislation as well as collective agreements has the power to ensure that theunions have opportunities to become involved in the implemented technological changes. Forinstance; the Canadian workplaces have evolved in the modern days and the significant shiftsin production and work have occurred within the Industrial Revolution. The industrialrelations of Canada are related to the ever increasing globalization. Moreover, understandingthe industrial relations is considered to be of immense importance, especially for the
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