Employer/Employee Relationships 1.4.1
Employer/Employee relations - are the defining features of how employers and employees interact with each other on a day to day basis. Employee representation - are the systems put in place to aid communication between employers and employees. Individual approach - suits many employees nowadays, because many people with scarce skills find that they can benefit from dealing independently with their employers Collective bargaining - suits employees in large organisations where the employer is likely to treat all employees doing the same kind of work in the same way. Usually in collective bargaining the workforce is being represented by a trade union. Trade unions - exists to represent employees in situations where group action is more effective than any individual can be. Typically trade unions represent specific occupations e.g. RMT, which includes many people working on the railways and London Underground, or certain types of work - Unison represents mostly public sector em...