Employment Standards Enforcement

Running head: ENTITLEMEMENT OF LEAVES IN A WORKPLACE
Entitlement of leaves in a workplace
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Introduction:
Employee relations is a very important concept which involves the efforts on behalf
of the managers of an organisation over their employees in order to make sure that the proper
work place environment is maintained and that the company had a better future (Shields
et.al., 2015). The employees of an organisation have the right to be treated in a fair and
proper manner. The trust between the employees and the managers must be maintained for
the betterment of the organisation. This will ensure loyalty and commitment on the behalf of
the employees which would help the organisation to proliferate and perform well in the
market scenario. According to the employee rights, the employees are entitled to receive
benefits like their ordinary salary and wages in accordance with the health care coverage as
well as opportunities of parental and sick leaves. The National Employment Standards set out
rules which involve the enterprises that the employees deserve. Harrington Convenience
Store in Sydney, Australia is the workplace where the interview has been held and the
feedback has been taken from three employees of the organisation.
Discussion
A. Harrington Convenience Store is an organisation where the employees and the
workers have to face a number of issues. The employees are not allowed to take
leaves. Having discussed about the workplace issues with the employees of the
organisation, I have found out that they suffer from issues of leaves. They have a
serious complaint that the managers of the organisation do not pay heed to what they
have to say and there is a severe communication problem. They feel that they are not
cared and their demand and their problems are not taken care of. The major issue that
they deal with is low motivation and low job satisfaction (Vosko, Noack and Tucker,
2016). After conducting an interview of the three random employees of the

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organisation, I have found out that they agree with the other employees and with the
workplace issue that they are facing.
An industrial instrument is a legal application, and it involves the agreements or the
enterprise awards under the Fair Work Art. The National Employment Standards
instrument include that the employees are allowed to have leaves and they are entitled
to take leaves (www.fairwork.gov.au ,2019). The leaves that the employees can have
are parental leaves, annual leaves, leaves for personal care and for domestic purposes,
community service leaves and long service laws and public holidays. The entitlement
of minimum wage pay is applicable to the Harrington Convenience Store. However
the legal instrument of taking leaves is not present in the considered workplace.
B. According to the National Employment Standards and the Fair Work Art (2009), the
entitlements that an employee should have been getting in an organisation is the
amount of leaves that is necessary for a human being (Fodor and Glass, 2018). The
workers and the staffs of the Harrington Convenience Store are allowed to take
parental leaves, which include the maternity leaves for the would be mothers and for
the mothers who have delivered recently. They are also allowed to take special
maternity leave as well as adoption leave. However they are not entitled to enjoy any
kind of annual leaves or long service holidays. The employees are also not allowed to
take unpaid family or personal care leaves, which are enlisted as the entitlements
according to the National Employment Standards (Den Dulk et.al., 2013). The
entitlement is indeed a part of the NES but the organisation does not incorporate such
laws.
In comparison with the workplace of my friend, the employees are entitled to
take and enjoy annual leaves which are paid. Apart from the causal employees of the
organisation, all the employees of the organisation including the part time and the full