Employee Relations in Morrison: Importance, Employment Law, Rights, Duties, and Obligations

This article discusses the value and importance of employee relations in Morrison, the fundamental employment laws that apply, the different types of rights, duties, and obligations for employers and employees, and appropriate advice for maintaining good relations. It covers topics such as the importance of good employee relations, the Employment Right Act 1996, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, the Employment Relations Act 2000, and the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999. It also provides advice for both employers and employees on how to maintain good relations.

Employee Relations

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body........................................................................................................................................3
P1 Value and importance of employee relations in application to Morrison...............................3
P2 Fundamental of employment law that apply in Morrison.......................................................4
P3 different types of rights, duties and obligations an employer and employee have within
Morrison to promote employment relations.................................................................................6
P4 Appropriate advice for employees and employer related to their rights, duties and
obligations which will help them to maintain their relations with each other.............................8
P5- contribution and engagement of stakeholders that can support positive employment
relationship at Morrison.............................................................................................................10
P6 Impact of positive and negative employees relations at Morrison........................................11
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

Introduction
Employees relations is defined as the condition of relationship between employees of an
organisation, between employees and management team, between employees and suppliers and
many more. Hence, it is essential that an organisation must have good and positive relationship at
their workplace to make their organisational culture positive (Ergun and Yalcinkaya, 2018).
Having a good relationship helps in reducing conflicts and increases the trust between employees
which further help the company to increase their overall productivity and profit. Morrison is the
retailing company which is headquartered in Bradford, London, UK. It is founded in 1899 by
William Morrison. The following file covers value and importance of employee relations and its
application in Morrison, fundamental of employment law that apply in Morrison, different types
of rights, duties and obligations an employer and employee have within the workplace,
appropriate advice for rights, duties and obligations of employment relationship for a range of
organisations, engagement and contribution of stakeholder that can support positive employment
relationship within Morrison and impact of positive and negative employee relations within the
workplace.
Main Body
P1 Value and importance of employee relations in application to Morrison
Employee relationship is the efforts shown by an organisation to make a positive and
goo relationship between management team and employees (Lemon and Palenchar, 2018). Every
employee at workplace wants tom build a good relationship at their working place so that they
can have follow mates to whom they can talk, share professional as well as personal issues.
There are many importances of employee relations within an organisation and some of the values
and importance are explained below-
1. There are some organisational issues on which an individual cannot take decisions alone.
Hence, to take decisions collectively with the help of specialist they build good employee
relations. Here, good relationship will help an individual to gather their required specialist
people and discuss the issues to find a better solution. In context of Morrison, whenever
they take any decision they approach to many employees for taking their suggestions and

point of views on that specific decision and this happen because of good employees
relations.
2. Employee’s relation is important to maintain organisational culture. Morrison has an
good organisational culture because their employees are engaging them self to help each
other and they engage to communicate and coordinate with each other which further help
the company to maintain a good working environment.
3. Employee’s good relationship is important to achieve organisational goal on time (Braun
and et. al., 2019). A good relationship between employees enhance communication and
coordination skills among team mates due to which their task will get completed soon and
hence contributed to achieve organisational goal.
4. Employee relations act as motivation factor for employees to perform their best
performance. Morrison has good employees relations and their managers always tries to
build more better relations with their employees so that they become motivated that their
organisation and senior employees are having positive attitude toward employees and
they respect them will engage employees to do better performance.
5. A healthy relationship between employees helps the company to reduce their conflict
arrival chances and absenteeism at workplace. In context of Morrison, their most of the
employees have good attendance and have less conflicts and when they were asked they
reasons then they answer that every employee in Morrison corporate with each other and
understands that everyone is correct in their own point of view which shows that they
have good relations at workplace which is helping them to reduce conflicts and the issues
of absenteeism.
6. Having a good relationship with office mates will help an individual to take help
whenever they need it the most (Gupta, 2018). Morrison employees are ready to have a
strong relationship with their teammates so that whenever they need help, the other
employees will not refuse to help.
P2 Fundamental of employment law that apply in Morrison
UK has some strict laws regarding to protect the rights of their employees to create a disciplined
at workplaces and these laws are determined below-

Employment Right Act 1996- This law is made to protect the right of employees at
workplace such as protection from unfair dismissal, unfair wages, Sunday workings, redundancy
payments and many more. Hence, any company found in involving any of the above mentioned
activity then that company will be punished by judiciary of UK. In context of Morrison, they
follow this law and focused that not a single employee of their organisation will feel
discriminative behaviour at workplace. Their HR is responsible to see whether the employee’s
rights are protected by employer or not. Due to this they have created good relations with their
employees at workplace.
National Minimum Wage Act 1998- This law states that there will be a minimum
amount of wage which should be provided by companies to their workers. UK government
decided to provide minimum £8.91 for working people of 23 and above age group (Hardy, 2019).
There is different wage system for age criteria. Hence, companies in UK are allowed to follow
this rule strictly. This law is followed by Morrison and they make sure that no employee should
face the issue of lack of wages as compared to their working hours. Even they allow additional
wages for additional working hours at offices. They pay a good amount of salaries to their
employees and also allow break time for the relaxation of employees at the mid of working
hours. This will help them to create a positive impact upon the mindset of employees which
further help to create good relations with their employees.
Employment Relations Act 2000- Here, UK is focused to provide good relationship
between employees, employer and trade union. This law promotes the concept of fair working
process without any disputed related to bad relations. In case any company found to avoid this
law then that company might pay penalties. Morrison follow this law by focussing all needs of
above mentioned three parties are fulfilling appropriately or not. They tries to fulfil all legal
requirements of their employees, employer and unions so that there will be no disputes between
these parties.
The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999- In context of this law,
employees is allowed to take 18 weeks of ordinary leaves which is fully paid and an additional
29 weeks leaves which is unpaid in case the employee is working for more than one year
(Munian, 2018). Another condition of this law is that employee is required to tell 15 weeks
before taking leaves. Female employees at Morrison are gaining advantage of this law and
Morrison did not only follow this laws but they also send gift like baby care products to their

employees in case they are on maternity leaves. This will help them to build a strong relationship
with their employees for a longer period of time.
P3 different types of rights, duties and obligations an employer and employee have within
Morrison to promote employment relations
There are different types of rights, duties and obligations for employees and employer
within an organisation to promote their employment relations for organisational benefits which
are mentioned below-
Rights-
Rights of employer Rights of employees
Employers of Morrison have the right to hire
suitable staff for the business. They can recruit
and select new employees after testing their
skills and qualification status required. This
will help to hire most talented employees
which is suitable for organisation and who
contributed their best efforts to achieve
organisational goal.
Employees have right to know about hazards at
workplace. Employees at Morrison having all
equal rights to know what is happening in the
organisation and which department have which
type of role. In case any employee is sent to
danger place like at production factories where
there are lot of machines without safety kits
then employees have full right to file a case on
company.
Employer of Morrison also has the rights to
dismiss dishonest and unsuitable staff from
their company after giving an appropriate
reason (Jie and Hasan, 2018).
Employees have rights to raise their voice in
case they feel any discrimination behaviour
with them by their senior employees. Morrison
allow their employees to openly share their
complaints to their HR manager or any senior
authority in case any employer found any
doing unlawful activity with their employees.
Duties-
Duties of employer Duties of employees
It is the main duty of employers at Morrison to
ensure that their employees will work is a
Employees of Morrison have the main duty to
arrive at work on time and carry out their

healthy condition. In case they send employees
at manufacturing fields then it is the duty of
employer to check whether the employee is
having safety kits with them or not and in case
they didn’t have the safety kit them employer
must provide it as soon as possible.
responsibilities as stated in their contract of
employment. It is essential for employees to
arrive at time and focused on those works
which are mentioned in their employment
contracts.
Another main duty of employer is to check
whether their new joiners are gaining
appropriate training or not by the trainers
assigned to them. This will help to build a
strong relationship and trust between employer
and new joiners.
Another main duty of employee is that they
must be loyal to their employer and did not
disclose business information to other external
parties.
Obligations-
Obligations of employer Obligations of employees
Employers have few obligations toward their
female workers like-
 They must provide safe working
environment.
 Organising programmes for women
safety and listen the complaints of
women.
 Take strict actions toward the unwanted
happenings in the organisation
regarding women safety.
Employee’s main obligation is to follow the
instruction of management team and their
employers because they are working under
them and their experienced seniors have more
experience that what kind of work will be done
by what kind. Therefore, they will only suggest
good ideas (Mira, Choong and Thim, 2019).
Employer of Morrison has obligations toward
hazardous situation like-
 Providing first aid kit at workplace for
small injuries.
 It is essential to provide safety kit to
their employees at workplace.
Another obligation of employees at workplace
is that they must perform their work carefully
and have positive attitude toward their
management team. It is essential that they
should not pass necessary official information
to those people who are not the part of their

 In case of injury of employment takes
place at workplace then whole
compensation of hospital charges will
be paid by company.
organisation (Black, 2020).
P4 Appropriate advice for employees and employer related to their rights, duties and obligations
which will help them to maintain their relations with each other
There are following advices for Morrison employees and employer to make their
relations good by following some rights and duties in their organisation and few of the advices
are given below-
Advice to employer for their rights-
 It is advised to employer that they must evaluate their rights to their employees like n
case they have right to dismiss any employee then it is good to aware and warn that
employee about rights of employer (Deng and et. al., 2018).
 It is advised to employer of Morrison that while hiring the new employees they must
check the skills by practically and aware the type of work and tasks given to employees
after hiring. This will help to build a good relationship between employees and employer
that all conditions are cleared before hiring which is a good activity.
Advice to employee for their rights-
 It is advised to employees that they must ask and clarify their queries regarding hazardous
conditions of working at manufacturing fields. It is good that employees will ask for
safety kits in case they were not given from the company (Ababneh and Rawabdeh,
2018). It is advised to employees that if they were not given a safety kit for working in
manufacturing fields with machines then they must refuse to work there.
 It is advised for employees of Morrison to raise their voice to their senior authority in
case they are feeling any wrong activity at workplace whether it is related to them or
related to some other employee. Having fear to express their thoughts would not be there.
Employees them self must encourage their teammates to raise their voice for unlawful
activity with them at their workplace.
Advice for employer for their duties-

 It is advised to employer of Morrison to follow their duties properly and check
themselves that their employees has wear a safety kit like helmets, gloves and many
things while working with machines or not (Ho and Astakhova, 2018). In case of lack of
safety kit in the organisation they must order for additional kit as soon as possible and
they should not allow any worker to work at danger sites without wearing kit.
 It is advised for Morrison to check on timely basis that their new joiners are gaining
training properly or not. Here, they can assign a mentor for new joiners who regularly
checks the performance of new joiners and explain them and guide them that how the
work will be done in Morrison. Employers must ask the report of new joiners from their
assigned mentors on regular basis.
Advice for employees for their duties-
 It is advised for employees of Morrison that they must arrive at time on their working
fields to maintain a discipline and obey the rules of working minimum working hours at
workplace. This will help to maintain good relations with employer because the 0only
thing which employer is expecting from their employees is that they will arrive at time
and do their work properly on time.
 It is further advised to employees that they must show their loyalty behaviour toward the
company. Morrison is working in a retailing sector of UK which consist a good amount
of competition. Hence, sharing to ideas of strategies and giving information to outer
parties about new innovative ideas of Morrison will be hazardous for the company.
Hence, it is advised that employees should not share the official information even to their
family members (Yao, Qiu and Wei, 2019).
Advices to employer for their obligations-
 It is advised to employer of Morrison that they must self aware them self about new and
modification of older laws related to their field. This will help them to introduce new
policies and rules and regulations which will cover new laws by government.
 It is advised to employer that they must held meetings on regular basis and aware their
employees about new laws and what kind of mistakes they are doing while following the
internal policies of organisation. This will help them to clear recognise their mistakes and
provide time to make it correct as soon as possible for smooth working of organisation.
Advices to employees for their obligations-

 It is advised to employees that they must follow the instructions of their management and
listen them carefully and try to understand what instructions is going to convey by them
and in case they are unable to understand the instructions given by employer then they
must ask their employer again to explain and clarify the instructions in detail. This will
help in reducing the uncertainties at workplace because most of the work gets spoiled in
organisation due to misunderstandings of instructions by managers to their employees.
Hence, it is good to ask twice to manager about their instruction (Bani-Melhem, Zeffane
and Albaity, 2018).
 It is also advised to employees that they must have positive and a good mindset toward
their management team and respond in a polite way whatever asker by manager about
official works. It is not good to believe about wrong humours about management team in
the office. Hence, employees must believe on the happening which they can see and hear
by them self and not by word of mouth.
P5- contribution and engagement of stakeholders that can support positive employment
relationship at Morrison
Shareholders are the person who has interest in the company. They are the reason for
existence of companies because they purchase the shares of companies and invest in them.
Stakeholders are employees of the company, suppliers, interested parties and many few more
which are the main reasons for making effective decision for the benefit of company. Hence,
stakeholders are also an essential part of any organisation. In context of Morrison, their
stakeholders play an important role for building a good relationship within the organisation
which is explained below-
 Stakeholders can be a part of management by purchasing a large amount of shares of
Morrison and become the member of board of directors which has full control over the
management of the company (Qin and et. al., 2018). Hence, by giving the control of
management of company in the hands of capable and experienced shareholder will help
the company to develop their relationship with each other because an experience
stakeholder knows the value and importance of good relationship at workplace and they
must try to make new policies which will focus to enhance good relations between
management team and employees.

 Stakeholders are commonly known by their investment which they bring in the company.
They make sure that the company will not face any financial issues so that they will
purchase required resources and give an appropriate amount of salaries to their employees
(Devi and Lochab, 2020). By providing good salaries employees get motivated and gain a
good trust for their organisation. Hence, this is another role of stakeholders of Morrison
to maintain their organisational relations by focusing that the company will not face the
situation of lack of finance.
 Allowing the outsiders as well as insiders of company to purchase the share of company
and allow them to become the part of board of directors is the good way to maintain a
good relationship between management team and employees. Morrison is the company
who sell their shares to their employees as well as to their management team so that they
work together on then similar position as the shareholders only and take organisational
decisions by communicating and coordinating appropriately with each other. This will
help to enhance the communication and coordination between employees and superior
management team which further help to maintain good relations between them (Meng
and Berger, 2019).
P6 Impact of positive and negative employees relations at Morrison
There are various impacts upon an organisation due to their positive as well as negative
employees relations and few of them in context of Morrison are explained below-
Positive impact of good employee relations-
 When a company is having good employee relations with each other then it is good
because here employees more engage them self to help each other and let the task get
finished as soon as possible which further help the company to achieve their goal on time
(Van den Bosch and Taris, 2018). In context of Morrison, they have good relationship of
employees inside their organisation and because of this they are able to serve their best
services to their customers.
 Secondly, having good and positive employee relationship always enhance the skills of
existing employees because having good relations with each other will engage them self
to communicate with each other coordinate and complete their task by having team at
workplace (Kidron, 2018). After doing all these activities employees can enhance their

communication skill, coordination skill, time management skill and many others. This
will also help them to create a proper discipline at workplace.
 Having good relationship with customers is essential for any company because it helps in
analysing what are their expectations related to company and its products so that
company well manufacture their products accordingly.
 Having good relations with government is beneficial for company because government
will help companies in many things like managing their taxes and they will not interferer
in any operational activity of company for their personal benefit.
Negative impact of bad employee relationship-
 There are many negative impacts of having bad employee relations at workplace of
Morrison because having no employee interaction, no communication, no coordination
and many other will impact upon overall productivity of the company by reducing its
level and hence a communication gap which is due to bad relations of employees will
cause delay in completing any task for the company.
 Secondly, having bad relations at workplace always create mistrust with each other and
especially between management team and employees (Faupel and Süß, 2019). In this case
employees disagree to every decision which is taken by managers and even a bad relation
result unwanted strikes of employees at their workplace due to which reputation of
company reduces in media and their customers start shifting their interest and loyalty to
other brand. Hence, there is a hazardous impact of having bad relations at workplace.
 Having bad relations with customers will impact badly on company because making
customers happy and interacting more with customers is essential. In case there is a lack
of good relations then customers will not able to communicate well their experience.
 Having bad relations with government will impact badly upon company because in case
government will not happy or have bad relations with any company then they will try to
interfere in operational activity of the company and keep charging penalties for smaller
mistakes.

Conclusion
From the above information it is concluded that having good relations at workplace is
not only beneficial for the company but it is beneficial for individuals also by developing their
skills and interacting more and helping more will help them to fulfil their requirement of help in
future by the same person to whom they help now. There are some rights, duties and obligations
of employees as well as employees which they must carefully follow and in case they avoid these
rights and duties then there will be a conflict in organisation. Therefore, it is advised that they
must follow strictly their rights and duties to create a good working environment which directly
helps to increase the productivity of an organisation. A stakeholder also plays an important role
in developing good employee’s relations. Hence, there are various ways by which an
organisation can improve their employee’s relation and make their goal achieved on time with
full efficiency.

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