Managing Employee Relations at Unilever: A Holistic Approach

Managing Employee Relations
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About Unilever and Its Employer Relations
• Unilever Plc is the largest suppliers of the fast moving consumer
goods (FMCG) across the world (unilever.com.au 2018).
• It operates globally and has subsidiaries in close to 100 countries.
Unilever is an Anglo Dutch that owns over 400 brands.
• Employee relations at Unilever refer to the efforts of the company
in managing the relationship between the employers and the
employees.
• Organizations with good employee relation program ensure
consistent and fair treatment to all the employees such that they
remain not only loyal to the company but also the jobs.

Collaboration of Unilever and CIPD
• Unilever partnered with Chartered Institute of Personnel
and Development(CIPD) to not only deliver but also
create an exceptional internal accredited program for
the advancement of the employee relations
(unilever.com 2018)
• CIPD was approached by Unilever for developing a
universal program aimed at the senior members of the
employment relations
• Both Unilever and CIPD designed a complex programme
but it remained ambitious in encompassing international
practice and theory due to the global nature.

Help Employees in Being Their Best
• This involves providing them with tools for maintaining, promoting
and enhancing the health for maximizing ftness and also improves
the capacity of working effectively and safely.
• The global strategy relating to Medical and Occupational Health have
two key elements that includes health protection and health
promotion
• Health promotion results in the promotion and enhancement of the
employee health thereby maximizing their fitness by improving the
capacity of working effectively whereas employee protection refers
to the protection of the employees from the day to day hazards
related to work (unilever.com 2018).