Managing Employment Relation

Running head: MANAGING EMPLOYMENT RELATION
Managing employment relation
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The employment relationship is the management of communication and relations
between employer and employee, organisations and state and the trade union. It is an
interdisciplinary stream that studies the aspects of fair and consistent treatment of the
employees in an organisation. Employment relations are important to maintain a positive and
healthy work environment. The main subjects that are connected to employment relations are
an employee-employer relationship, trade unionism and collective bargaining and state rules.
According to the industrial relations experts, the labour markets are not unbiasedly
competitive. The employers have the interest of higher profit whereas; the employees are
more interested in higher wages. All these things influence the context of the labour market at
large. The employment relations change according to the state and labour markets. This essay
will compare and contrast the employment relations of Australia and China to understand
where these countries sand in their industrial relation policies.
Countries China Australia
State  The country has a
socialist republic
framework run by a
communist party.
 The government has
always been active in
the employee-
employers relations.
 Recently developed
state policies are
partially positive for
 A bureaucratic
structure of the
country leads it to
have liberal and
democratic
framework.
 The government is
active in trade
decisions.
 State participates in
trade matters through

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the foreign
investments.
 Regulation regarding
the employee welfare
and wages are not
quite strong.
 China has a strict
taxation system. It
takes a remarkable
amount of profit
share from the
foreign companies.
 There is no strict
regulations for the
work time and
wages. Labours have
to do over time most
of the time. They
even have to work
more than 44 hours a
week to earn more as
the wage is quite
low.
legislations and rule
setting.
 Commonwealth
constitution has a
limited power to
interfere in the IR
disputes.
 Labour wages of this
country is moderated
by are low than any
other developed
countries.
 Trade laws of the
country are hugely
influenced by the
UK legislation.

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Trade Unions  ACFTU has been
gaining greater
power and autonomy
in trade Union
aspects.
 This union is again
controlled by the
communist party of
China
 CPC controls the
decisions made in
the union and
sometimes the
employee’s welfare
issues are not
considered.
 The unions
concentrate in their
traditional role even
in the time of
management labour
disputes. For
example they lack
the knowledge and
skills to resolve the
 ACTU is the central
union of the
Australia and the rest
small unions are
merged with it.
 The concentration of
unions are declining
in recent years.
 Australian trade
unions are focused
on fair trade and
wages in every
sectors.
 In some sectors, the
importance of unions
are decreasing
because of increasing
privatisation and
labour contractions.
 Australian unions are
active in collective
bargaining and wage
determination
aspects.
 The government do