HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

Labor Relations

This chapter presents labor relations (LR) - the study of the capitalist employment relationship, with an emphasis on employer/worker or “capital-labor” conflict. The field originated a century ago in the United States, maintaining an intellectual tradition and historical experience distinct from LR in other nations. The labor relationship is a relationship based on an agreement between the employee and the employer of an employee for personal fulfillment cost of labor (work in office, profession or occupation). An employee, who has entered into an employment relationship, must obey the rules of domestic labor regulations, and the employer is obliged to provide him with working conditions in accordance with the law, collective or individual employment contract. Labor relations arise between the employee and employer on the basis of the concluded employment contract. In addition, the employment relationship may also arise on the basis of actual admission of the employee to work with or behalf of the employer, even if it was not issued an employment contract (Hunt and Strongin, 1994).

The essential elements of labor-management relations have its purpose in the equity of both parties as this helps us to have better development within organizations about the country and gives us stability that we need to avoid a climate of uncertainty for foreign companies to invest the capital in our country. The employer should have a broad outlook to their workers or union and fulfill their needs without paternalism. In what has been done we will see the rights and obligations of both employers and employees, so the law regulates each of these groups as an umpire in order to maintain consistency between these members (Milkovich and Boudreau, 1997).

Labor Union

Labor unions are organizations formed by employees for the purpose of using their collective strength to improve compensation, benefits, and working conditions through bargaining; to bring fairness to the workplace through the provision of due process mechanisms; and to represent the interests of workers in the political process. Employees recognize that unless they have unusual or unique skills or talents, individuals have very little influence with their employers and very little power to improve the conditions under which they work. However, by banding together, workers are able to exert collective pressure that is more likely to force an employer to make improvements in the workplace. This collective power can also be used to obtain improvements through the political ...