Employee Relation Management

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Employee relation management
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3/22/2019

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According to industrial dispute act, 1947, section 2(k), “Industrial difference refers to the
clash or difference between the employers and employers or employer and workmen or
between workmen and workmen, which is linked with occupation or non-employment or
term of engagement or with the circumstances of labor of any person (Whilte, 2019).
An industrial conflict takes place when the employees express its disappointment towards
organization at the existing state of the employee-management association. It may occur due
to materials associated to consistent wage payment, wage upsurge or remunerations
according to the terms of employment agreement. Such conflicts are classified under formal
and informal conflicts. The formal conflicts are pre-planned in a proper manner while the
informal ones are spontaneous and unorganized (Whilte, 2019).
The industrial conflict is inevitable in any organization but the friction between the employee
and the employer must be reduced through a collective bargaining process. The employees
hold a crucial strategic place in the organization and establishment of cordial relation
between the employee and the employer helps in achieving success and maximization of the
profits. It allows smooth functioning of the business and sustains the competitive advantage
of the company (Wise, 2015).
The increasing diversity at the workplace has created the emerging need to manage the
conflicts in the workplace. The leaders at the workplace do not systematically manage the
conflicts and views conflict as piecemeal or considered as local events. This inability of the
leaders leads to striking actions, the rivalry between and among the sub-units and the
individuals, absenteeism, lack of efficiency, slow production, low morale and sabotage at the
workplace (Thompson, 2017).
Strikes refer to the powerful tool which is used by trade unions and other labor associations to
get their demands acknowledged. It refers to the resigning of work by a cluster of employees

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to create pressure on the employer and meet their demands. In Australia, there is a protected
and unprotected industrial action. Protected means that it complies with the requirements of
the Fair Work Act and is ‘legal’ striking because the employers are terminating more and
more EBA’s which creates difficulty in conducting the strike and if the person does not pass
through all these hoops then the action is unprotected because in Australia each employee
who participates in the action can be fined $ 12,600 for each day and every violation
(McCrystal, 2019).
Historically the first strike action occurred by the end of 20th dynasty under Pharaoh Ramses
III in ancient Egypt on November 14, 1152, BC. The artists of the royal necropolis walked
off their jobs since they not had been paid off. The strike action becomes the feature of the
political landscape with the beginning of the industrial revolution (Ivancevic, Pourbeik and
Reid, 2018).
By the year 1830 when the Chartist movement was its peak, the worker's consciousness was
awakening and finally, in the year 1842 the conditions of labor across the different countries
evoked out and formed the modern general strike. As the 19 century arrived strikes became
the feature of industrial relation through the industrialized world (Abjorensen and Docherty,
2014).
The great strike of Australia was the longest duration strike which started on August 2 and
continued till October 15. In this strike, more than 100000 workers participated because the
foremen were watching the hours for completing the project. It introduced the time card and
adopted the scientific management concept. This created dissatisfaction because the workers
were considered as machines and lead to the deployment of their skills. This concept is again
taking shape from the year 2017 and becoming the major cause for the strikes and
absenteeism. The strikes in Australia started from the period 1788. In Australia, political