Employment Relationship Management: Practical, Legal Challenges

This presentation explores the practical and legal challenges that organizations, such as Sainsbury, encounter in managing employment relationships. It highlights the importance of a positive working environment and the legal connections between employers and employees. Key challenges discussed include layoffs, work-from-home policies, workplace safety, wage issues, and annual leave disputes. The presentation recommends implementing acts like the Equal Pay Act 2010, Employment Right Act 1996, and Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to mitigate these issues and foster better employee relations. It emphasizes that employment relationships are vital for organizational success, serving as a contractual agreement that enables individuals to sell their labor and create positive connections between workers, employers, markets, and states. Desklib offers more resources for students.

Assessment 2: Individual Presentation
Practical and legal challenges that organisations
experience in managing the employment relationship
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Contents
• Introduction
• Practical and Legal challenges in employment
relationship
• Recommendations to a set of employment relations
issues
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
As per the current scenario, it is identified that employment
relationship is playing prominent role in the development of the
organization. It is analyzed that employment relationship is
considered as the contractual agreement between the employees &
employers that mainly allows individuals to sell their labour.
Basically employment relationship is helpful to create the good
relationship between the employees, employers, markets & states,
contracts. This report is based on the Sainsbury organization which
is famous retailing organization and operating marketing activities
in various locations.

Practical And Legal Challenges In Employment
Relationship
It is identified that organization must establish an appropriate
environment in which all the employees can feel free to express their
problems and issues. Positive working environment can helpful to
motivate the staff members and then staff begins to express their worries;
the manager must listen and try to fix the problem while being sensible &
open-minded. It is necessary for the organization to create the effective
employment relationship so that all the employees can get good working
environment. It is analyzed that employment relationship demonstrate
the legal connection between an employee and their employer is
described by the type of contractual employment agreements.

Practical And Legal Challenges In Employment
Relationship
There are various practical and legal challenges are facing by the Sainsbury organization which are
as follows –
• Layoffs
• WFH Policy
• Workplace Safety
• Hours & Wage Issues
• Annual Leave Disputes
• Legal Issues in the Workplace

Recommendations To A Set Of Employment
Relations Issues
Employers and workers have a legal connection called an employment relationship. It exists when
an individual provides work and also provides services in exchange for payment under specified
terms. It is the primary source of information for assessing the scale and extent of a business's
rights and duties to their employees. In order to maintain the employment relationship and also
reduce the employment relations issues so that company is effectively manage their employees
and employer relations.

Recommendations To A Set Of Employment Relations
Issues
There are some effective Acts are recommended by the Sainsbury company so that company can
implement these acts and reduce the employees relations issues. The explanations of all the
prominent acts are given below –
• Equal Pay Act, 2010
• Employment Right Act, 1996
• Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974

Conclusion/Summary
According to this presentation, it can be identified that employment relationships are playing a
significant part in the organization It has been determined that a contract of employment is defined
as a contractual arrangement between employees and employers that enables people to sell their
labour. In general, employment relationships aid in the development of positive relationship
between workers, employers, markets and states, and contracts. This presentation discussed about
the various practical and legal challenges and also determined various acts as recommendations.

Reference List
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