BMP6005 - Work and the Employment Relationship: Challenges Report

This report, prepared for the BSC (Hons) Business Management (Top-up) BMP6005 module, delves into the practical and legal challenges organizations encounter in managing the employment relationship. It identifies key issues such as conflict management, wage and hour disputes, workplace safety concerns, and leave disputes, alongside legal challenges including wage and hour laws, healthcare laws, social media usage, and discrimination. The report provides recommendations for addressing these challenges, emphasizing the importance of conflict resolution training, clear communication, and adherence to legal standards. The conclusion highlights the dual role of the human resource department in preventing and resolving employee disputes and implementing policies to foster a positive and productive work environment. The report draws on various academic sources to support its findings and recommendations.

BSC (Hons) Business
Management (Top-up)
• BMP6005 Work and the Employment
Relationship

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
Employee relations refers to the efforts of the organisation for
developing and maintaining the relationships that are positive
with its employees or the workers. By keeping the positive and
the constructive relations between the employees, the
organisation is able to keep the employees loyal and more
involved in their work. This report will discuss the practical and
the legal issues that arises in the employment relationship and the
recommendations for solving those employment issues (Agarwala
and Saha, 2018).

Practical And Legal Challenges In
Employment Relationship
Maintaining better employee relations is crucial for the successful implementation of the business activities. Also, there exists
various issues that arises in the workplace along with the opportunities and these issues can also convert from the smaller ones to
the larger problems and every owner or manager of the business wants a secure and a safe workplace which motivates the effective
communication and has the encouraging culture.
Practical challenges
• Conflict Management
Conflicts can occur in any environment and it can even arise in the workplace. Disagreements between the employees and also
between the employee and the business can happen at any time (
Boersma and Nolan,2022).
• Hour and wage issues
For preventing the federal wage and the violation of the hour and to decrease the issues of the employees relating to the pay
checks, there should be a self-service timekeeping software which will assist the employees in keeping the record or the track of
the time from their smart devices. This will also the employees to manage their schedules in an efficient manner

• Enough safety in the workplace
For the promotion of the safety in the working area that must be the most
important thing and also must be kept at the top priority of every business.
• Annual Leave disputes
The leave management software assist in developing a legal and the
transparent leave policy which do not create any kind of the disputes at the
workplace. Every employee must be provided with an easy access to this
software and it also helps the employees to talk with the human resource
managers about the necessary adjustments and requests (
Chicchi, 2020).
• Timekeeping and Attendance Issues
The issues related to these aspects are very common and can be seen
frequently in multiple organisations. This can be avoided by using the
employee self service software.

Legal Challenges
• Wage and hour law
The department of Labour has stated that it will find the inputs from the
people before it receive a revised proposed when the time exceeds rule
that will also include the latest salary thresholds.
• Health care law
Modifications in the existing health care laws is on the top for the
employees and the employers (Dieuaide, 2018).
• Employee use of social media
Companies are becoming more conscious about the way in which the
employees use the social media at the office as well as outside the office
so it becomes necessary to spread the awareness among the employees
and develop a clear and stable standards and the practices for the
communication on the social media.

• Independent contractors
Come of the corporations are offering extra protections for the freelancers like in the New York city Freelance that
develops and increases the protection for the freelance employees mainly for the contracts, protection from the
retaliation and the terms of payment.
• Paid leave and parental leave law
The multi state employers in specific must have information about the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) which is
not the only law to take into consideration when any employee is planning for the childbirth, adapt or take care of a
child, or for a family member but there exists numerous state laws in relation to the family members that are being
covered in the FMLA.
• Equal pay legislation and enforcement
This particular law is implemented on all the employees and it also do not include any intention of the discrimination
so if any employee about its actions were discriminatory which is not relatable (
Mészáros and Divékyová, 2019).
• Discrimination, harassment and retaliation
It becomes necessary for some of the organisations to have the consultation with the human resources and the experts

• Listening to both the sides
For the resolution of the conflict management, it is important for the company
to train the supervisors and the managers for coaching the employees in that
particular area.
• Determining the real issue collectively
The main problem of the argument between the employee is because of the
emotions. So, it becomes important to take things slow and actually listen to
the employees.
• Consulting the employee handbook
The conflicts which are based upon the protected class comes under the
classification of the discrimination or harassment (
Ogunola, 2018).
Finding a solution
The organisational changes must not be ruled out in a complete manner rather

• Writing it up
All the documents of the incidents that occurred at the workplace must be written down
and collected. Keeping a record of these events will assist in monitoring the behaviour
regularly and observe the repeat offenders which may create a negative influence at the
workplace.
• Teaching the employees way of communicating
When the employees become troubled then just talking is not enough. In a critical way,
the employees who have these kind of the issues are already having the communication
issues (Van Hoek, 2018).
• Leading by example
Creating a culture of the engaged employees and who also respect each other and work
collectively leads to the success of the organisation. By communicating with the
employees in a respectful and honest way, an environment is created which enhances
the integrity and the communication.

Conclusion/Summary
From the above report, it has been concluded the practical and the legal challenges that arises in
the employment relationship at the contemporary workplace and the recommendations for
solving those employment relations issues. When it comes to the relationships between lthe
employees, the human resource department performs two important functions in which it assist
by avoiding and resolving the issues or the disputes between the employees and the management
and secondly, by developing and implementing those policies which are suitable for everyone at
the workplace.

Reference List
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