Importance of Employee Relations and Employment Laws in Human Resource Management

Human resource

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................3
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................4
PART 3.......................................................................................................................................5
PART 4.......................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Human resource department in an organisation is who is responsible to recruit
appropriate employee for a job role and monitor their performance in order to implement
training and development sessions. This department is responsible to create better company
culture so that to maintain employees relationships which is helpful in growth of the
organisation. This report includes importance of employee relations and various employment
laws which are required to be adhered by a business entity. The company taken in this report
is Tesco Plc. it is British supermarket chain which is having headquarter in UK. Tesco is
having very large organisation in which 450000 employees are working. (Amao, 2016)
PART 1
Value and importance of employee relations
It is essential for the businesses to keep healthy and good employee relationship so as
to manage whole organisational in an effective manner. There is various importance of
employee relation which is explained as under:
Increase in harmony: With the help of effective employee relations, harmony can be
seen at workplace which helps the business to flourish. With good employee relation, trust
within employees increases that develops happy environment within Tesco so as to assist
employee in working their fuller efficiency. (Kammerhoff, Lauenstein and Schütz, 2019)
Reduce conflicts: With the help of healthy employee relations, conflicts can be
minimised as due to which employee productivity increases. As healthy relationship leads to
solve conflicts in early time which help them to adjust in any situation in a considerable
manner (Lewin, 2017). So with the help of employee relations Tesco manager is able to
reduce conflicts between employees, this will lead them to have high performance by their
employees.
Reduce absenteeism: With the help of healthy relations, absenteeism can be
minimised in Tesco. As due to healthy relations employees feel like to come to the office or
workplace which assists in reducing nonappearance. (De Prins, Stuer and Gielens, 2018).
With the help of employee relations, manager of Tesco can minimise their absenteeism as
when employees are not satisfied with organisational working then only they try to take
leaves without any reasons.
Employment laws: There are various employment laws in UK which are required to be
followed by every company so as to safeguard employee right and to provide them benefit.
These laws are explained as beneath:
Equality act 2010: This act says that all the employees are required to be treated
same irrespective of their religion, sex, disability, race and any other aspect. This law is
applicable in Tesco, due to which employee operate their operations with full efficiency as
they do not have to face any unlawful treatment within organisation. (Butler, 2016)
The employment relations act 1999: Under this act several conditions are described
in which several fields are described through which different benefits are given to employees

such as paternal and maternal leaves, part time work, grievance hearings, employment
tribunal awards etc. By application of these acts in Tesco, the working employees can freely
participate in any in house activity and they have right to know everything about the
company due to which transparency created within employees. So this helps the employees in
creating faith on their employer so as to assist them in working with full efficiency(Schneider
and Sachs, 2017). (Williams, 2017)
Health and safety act: This act states that all the measures for employee safety are to
be adopted in any business so that to safeguard their employees. This act is applicable in
Tesco due to which safe environment is created in the business by which overall productivity
is increasing. This act was enforced so as to render physical safety to working staff. Along
with this the act states that all the safety equipment is of best quality so that no compromise
in health may be faced by employees.(Friend and Kohn, 2018)
The relation among employees can be enhanced by adopting better communication
methods and reducing communication gaps. Further by providing better career growth
options to employees’ relationship can be improvised. With the help of these tactics,
environment of trust can be created so as to ensure employee about their wellbeing
(Baldschun and et. al., 2019). In Tesco with the help of abovementioned employment laws,
they are able to catch employee satisfaction and their belief over the company. Due to this
they are giving their full dedication in the business due to which the company is having high
success into the market.
PART 2
Rights and duties of employee: Employees doo have so many rights and duties towards
their organisation so as to operate the business in an effective manner. As in context of Tesco,
employees have numerous rights and duties which are explained as under:(Brun and Cooper,
2016)
Minimum wages: The employees in UK have the right over getting minimum wages
per month which is decided by UK legislative authorities. Under this right all the employees
of Tesco have right to get equal basic pay so as to maintain employees harmony.(Costa and
Machin, 2017)
No discrimination: Under this right all the employees which are working in UK have
right to receive equal behaviour at workplace. That means all the employees in Tesco have
right to be treated as similar way, there should not be any discrimination on the basis of age,
sex or religion. (Cohn, 2019)
Right of safety: Under this right all the employees of UK territory does have right to
get safety measures during office or working hours. It means the employees of Tesco do have
right to receive all safety equipment during working hours and to avoid those working style
which is hazardous for their health. (Brauer, 2016)