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  • more casual employees

"Employment in abscence of entiltement to paid annual leave or sick leave"

Employment Relations and Key Influences

What is it?

  • similar to workplace relations, industrial relations, human resource management
  • Total relationship between the employer and the employee
  • effective management of this relationship is essential to a successful business
  • Done through seeing employees as an asset not a cost

Why is it important?

A happy workforce is a productive workforce

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/new_study_shows/

"Economists carried out a number of experiments to test the idea that happy employees work harder. They found happiness made people around 12% more productive."

  • your staff is essential to earning profit

"a company with a happy, motivated workforce will see exceptional results in its products and services.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/08/22/the-10-companies-with-the-biggest-jumps-in-employee-happiness/

  • effective management of staff ensures high quality of service and product to get an competitive advantage

Legal Influences

Productivity

Employer Loyalty

Conflict Resolution

  • good employment relations refers to a businesses ability to manage conflict
  • Increased commitment to the business
  • Greater relations equals greater employee motivation
  • conflict arises from a misalignment of goals between the employers and the employees
  • Increased retention of staff
  • Positive working environment and morale

Employee

Employer

  • Therefore decreased cost of staff turnover
  • Greater productivity increases profit
  • maximise profit
  • location of the workpace
  • way which work is performed
  • exercises control over employees
  • payment of wages
  • pay
  • working hours
  • power to dismiss
  • Increased Concentration
  • Influences affected by the laws

The Employer Contract

  • Contract that outlines the rights and responsibilities of both employer and the employee

Legislation: Workplace Relations Act

Employee

  • Follow reasonable instructions
  • perform work without negligence
  • act in good faith of the business

Employer

  • Provide work
  • Fair Wage
  • Follow employment relations legislation

"The Australian national workplace relations system establishes a safety net of minimum terms and conditions of employment and a range of other workplace rights and responsibilities."

http://www.afr.com/news/policy/industrial-relations/workplace-relations-the-big-issues-20150122-12vnts

Occupational Health & Safety

  • refers to the management of risk
  • legislation introduced to ensure
  • All employers must protect the health and the welfare of their employees through the creation of a safe work environment, safe working procedures and safe materials
  • All employers must train their staff and provide information about workplace health and safety
  • All employers must consult with their staff with respect to OH & S matters

Influences

  • Factors affecting employment relations

Social Influences

Changing Work Patterns

  • fewer permanent employees
  • flexible working hours
  • because of decreased rights and benefits casual workers are more likely to be dismissed, have a variation in hours and schedule and underpayment
  • whilst casual employees will work for less pay and more flexible hours they have less committment and lower productivity
  • Trasitioned the bulk of their staff from casual to permanent in 2012
  • employs less that 30% of staff on a casual basis
  • Engagement levels have increased 80%
  • Absenteeism has fallen from 12.5% to 3%

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-10/figures-show-retirement-age-rising-with-life-expectancy/5146928

The Ageing Labour Force

Globalisation

  • in 2012, 14% of Australians are 65+
  • by 2020 20% of the population is projected to be 65+
  • People over 65 will double by 2055
  • The average retirement age is approx 65
  • Therefore, new training is required, increase part time work
  • The needs of older workers need to be protected
  • Increased Competition

Population Shifts

  • Increased women in the workforce
  • Increased multiculturalism in the workforce
  • Increase need for high quality staff

Economic Influences

  • Therefore, greater training development is required
  • depending on the economy, employment demands will differ
  • In times of boom, there is an increased demand for employment
  • change recruitment policies to attract and maintain high quality staff
  • Increased wages
  • In times of bust, demand for employment decreases
  • change termination and recruitment policies
  • increase flexibility of staff
  • strategies to manage a multicultural workforce
  • Google has invested heavily in their employment relations where workers are now 37% happier than previously
  • Microsoft has shifted their focus towards employment relations
  • No suprises that these companies have seen successful growth in the business
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