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Employment Relations

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Employee voice ..........................................................................................................................1Decline in trade union influence.................................................................................................1Critical analysis ..........................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTIONTo complete any task in the organization there is need of better relationship between theemployees and employers. Through employment-relation, workers receive their rights andbenefits which are related with areas of labour laws and employment security. There are variouschanges which can be seen in the UK's industrial relationship after de-regulation andprivatisation (Appelbaum, Batt and Clark, 2013). Due to changes in the economic reforms,employers now require more efficient and flexible employees so that company's production canbe increased. To make the better relationship there has been rise in new reforms regarding theemployees. Development of human resource management and related committees has made newstrategies for the partnership of employees and employers and to achieve goals of the company.Following report is critical review of employee voice and decline in trade union and its influencewithin UK. Employee voice In organization, employee voice is required in the organizational decision-making so thatthey can communicate easily and raise their issues. For the firm, this contributes towardsbusiness-improvement, innovation and productivity while for the employees it helps to providethose better opportunities, greater influence, job satisfaction and growth. Employment relation inorganisation is maintained by the HR managers. They play great role in developing, hiring andtraining the employees Lakhani, Kuruvilla and Avgar, 2013. However, employee’s voice is onlyconsidered in the smaller firms, in large organisation they have weak collective voice. In thefirms, employees can easily negotiate for implementing of flexible working positioning. Further,disabled employees, older workers and those who require special care can also raise their voices.It has provided great opportunities to the employees so that they can raise their issues in front ofmanagement. Organisation resolves those issues and which helps in achieving increasedperformance level and greater quality of work. Decline in trade union influenceTrade unions play great role in the Public sectors while it has been opposite to the privatesectors. As per the data, there has been fall of more than 6.9% in the labour union who belongs tothe private sectors. Expenditure of vast amount of money, efforts and government influence1

shows influence by labour movement. There are several reasons due to negative perception existand create impact on trade union (Why trade unions are declining, 2017). Around 500 members from different union gather and make partnership towardsimportant topics. In youth unemployment, migrant crises continuous increase because of somechanges. Decrease in employment rate has taken place due to major change in economy. Totalemployment level in the country has declined nearly around 20 m in 1976 (Appellate, Bart andClark, 2013). There are many skilled workers who not getting the effective result. Due to this,the rate of skilled employee decreased.Union often seems irrelevant so that in good times employees not require unions supportto secure enhancement in wages and other benefits because profits continually increases due toeconomy’s prosperity (Wilkinson, Wood and Deeg 2014). On the other hand, in bad times unioncannot protect business members in terms of lay-offs, wages, working conditions, etc. In realworld, union contracts are make things worse. As the workers are skilled and they did not workon low cost so it is becoming difficult for company to employ skilled people as they incur highcost for the company. There are still some firms that are attracted towards low cost labour.Hence, other firms and sectors are still struggling for cheap and effective labour.Further, union have also bad image which arrogant, disorganised and threat as well. Thelabour has been in news due to illegal activities done by them such as employing child as labourand doing robbery etc. In addition to this, organising campaigns includes corruption to bluntunion with using aura of greed and corruption Kuruvilla and Avgar, 2013Other reason that influences the labour is the union policies. Change in union policies take placedue to change in political and economic structure in the country. Now it has introduced thereform of migrating labour and national healthcare policies.Higher investments were added tosupport candidates and to solve their problems related to employment.There are so manyworkers in south who become deeply reserved and not supportive due to certain causes. They aretotally against the politician those who are not supporting them and their policies as well(McGrath-Champ and et.al., 2015). There are various people who turn to government, but not take part in to union due tosome basic protection requirement. Hence, employees are dependent on government for theirpensions, healthcare, and protection for discrimination and providing several benefits which wassupported by union. 2

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