Employee Relations and Employment Law: A Case Study of Tesco

Work and the
Employment
Relationship

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Value and importance of employee relations and fundamentals of employment law.....................3
Different types of rights, duties and obligations an employer and employee has within the
workplace.........................................................................................................................................5
A stakeholder analysis for the organisation and analysis of how stakeholder engagement and
contribution can support positive employment relationships..........................................................6
Contribution of stakeholders in employment engagement..............................................................7
An analysis of the impact of both positive and negative employee relations on different
stakeholders.....................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
An employee relation means an organization's attempt to build and continue good relations with
its workers. By supporting good, positive relationships with people inside the firm, industries
desire to retain all the workers honest and active in their task. It includes providing authority to
workers and independence to handle their task and make all the decisions to accomplish their
objectives. For all the entitlement of every worker, there is a requirement of having a better
working relation with workers and communication planning. Tesco has been taken as a base
company which is founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen. This is a British multinational grocery and
retail industry which is headquartered in Welwyn Garden city, UK and considered as the top
leading firm of the world. This file covers importance of employee relations, laws related to the
employment (Jankalová and Jankal, 2017). This file will also cover the rights, duties and
obligations in context to employee and employer, analysis of a stakeholder and an effect of both
positive, negative on employee relations.
Main Body
Value and importance of employee relations and fundamentals of employment
law
Relationships with workers play an important role in the progress of an industry. It is evident that
the firm has different workers working in that. If they are working with joyful nature and capable
to grow relations with workers the task will be completed is very successful (Arya and
Srivastava, 2018). The importance of relationship with employees is described as:
Loyalty with workers: Loyalty often inspires all workers to perform their very best and do at
their peak level of quality. In case of Tesco, they have honest workers who work for their
company, then they will have hardworking and successful workers. Loyalty related to employees
lessens the profit levels people can see in the whole company.
Increment in Motivation: If the worker working in a firm is inspired, there is a good chance an
employee will perform a good job and hard work. Motivation is very important in attracting
employees, keeping employees and normal levels of productivity in the business. Motivated
employees are more excitedly to be ready to do task, than to remain unemployed. Motivation
will help them to achieve their interpersonal objectives. If a person is inspired, then they will be

satisfied with the work. It will assist in personal development. One can always benefit by
performing with a strong team (Coetzer, Kock and Wallo, 2017).
Least change in the conflict of workspace: Obviously, when there are better relations with the
company's workers, there is little opportunity of conflict. It is clear that a worker of Tesco has
the capability to resolve employees' issues and give them with an accessible answer. Minor
conflicts inspire workers and they are capable to work in an efficient manner. Tesco Equity is
also a fact in inspiring all the workers.
Increment in belief and confidence: It is argued that being in good relations with the workers of
company will lead to increment in trust. Trusting on these workers aids to inspire them and
accomplish aims and results successfully. In relation to Tesco, the employer starts believe on
workers and that increase the workers performance. Level of confidence in workers is beneficial
for them to feel inspired and capable to work in an efficient way.
Employment Law in UK is in place to ensure that both workers and employees are safe. Giving
regulations related to discharge, leaves, wages, differentiation and so on, these laws are utilised
to save rights of employees while keeping safety, the interests of the worker and maintaining
good relations between the two.
Equality Act, 2010: It is an act in which every worker doing job in the firm must be perform in a
fairly and equitably way. There should be nothing related to differentiation on anything for eg.
age, class, color, male or female, religion, , society etc. At Tesco, all workers working on the
similar positions were provided the same salaries and chances to work efficient in the firm.
National Minimum Wage, 1998: Workers of the firm should be paid minimum salary for their
work. It is evident that at Tesco, workers are paid for the task they always performance. It also
appears that they were paid for the additional task they performed (Wang, Dai and Kong, 2021).
Healthy and Safety at Work, 1974: According to this practice workers of the firm must be
given with a security and healthy good space. It is evident that at Tesco, workers are given with
appropriate teaching so that they do not feature any problems. As well as that appropriate
protection and medicine services are given to them.
These are the basics that help continue a healthy and efficient relationship between workers and
employers. These rules must be come after by the firm in order for workers to work in an
efficient manner (Kibogo, 2018).